Hedge fund managers pocket nearly half of investment gains

Hedge funds have charged almost $2 trillion in fees since 1969, says LCH
Hedge funds have charged their investors $1.8 trillion in fees from 1969 to the end of December 2024, according to data from hedge fund investor LCH Investments on Monday.
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Hedge funds kept $1.8 trillion as fees, or half their gains
Of the $3.7 trillion in profits they have earned as an industry since 1969, nearly half or a staggering $1.8 trillion was gobbled up as fees, according to estimates by LCH Investments, a fund of hedge funds. With soaring assets, hedge funds have raised their charges to 50.4% of gains, up from the roughly 30% they earned until the early 2000s.
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“Up to the year 2000, the hedge fund fee take had been running at around a third of overall gains, but since then it has increased to a half,” said Rick Sopher, chief executive of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Holdings and chair of LCH Investments. “As returns came down, fees went up.”
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