John Wheeler, senior manager of equity trading at American Century mutual funds, figures the current system imposes a 0.5% trading cost (one-way) on big orders, between commissions, spreads and the impact such orders themselves have on prices.

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Definition of private equity: a marvelous system for creating wealth by trading an existing stock of assets back and forth at ever higher prices.

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