Personal Investment Guide

Hedging Your Votes
Taxing questions.
Democrats have so far gotten the lion’s share of hedge-fund managers’ campaign contributions in the 2008 presidential money race — 75 percent, according to a Center for Responsive Politics/Absolute Return magazine analysis of the candidates’ first-quarter financials. Next week, when financials are due, we’ll know if the trend kept up in the [...]

What typically are management fees (both management and incentive fees) for pooled investment vehicles, such as private equity pools and limited partnerships? I read in Wikipedia the "2 and 20" rule, with 2% management fee on total assets and 20% of total return, for both the Hedge Fund and the Venture Capital definition. [...]