Investors must ask the Fund Manager what fees come with the Private Fund; how are those getting earned by the Manager and paid by the Investors. Investors should never invest in anything they don’t feel comfortable with or understand.
Understanding Fund fees is difficult, even for experienced investors. Fund Managers pass along their organizational expenses, operating and other business-related costs to investors through all sorts of fees and other expenses; things like fund formation fees, operating expenses, front-end load fees, on-going fees, back-end load fees, early redemption fees, transfer fees, etc.
Fees are a fact when it comes to investing, so the goal is to choose a Private Fund that performs well, and it has a reasonable fee structure.
Here are some of the most common fees associated with Private Funds