Middling stars are being offered much smaller guaranteed fees in return for a bigger cut of the profits if a film sells well on DVD and television.
For the authors, their trade deficits with Cambridge restaurants, airlines taking them to junkets around the world, and Newbury Street clothiers are their certain rewards for trade surpluses run with their employers at HBS, the publisher of their book, and the businesses that pay them consulting fees in return for the kind of advice that would bankrupt most any business if actually followed.
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The new fund has scrapped an initial charge of 3.5%, which was levied on retail customers but has introduced a 10% performance fees on any return above the FTSE All-share index.
So far none of the others have apologised or offered to return their fees.
Further, some pensions are demanding managers return excessive fees paid in the past.
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Its Green Shipping Initiative offer incentives such as reduced port fees for ships in return for using low-sulfur fuel.
Over the past decade, he says, his small-cap growth accounts have averaged a 13.6% annual return after fees, seven points better than the market.
Common investing wisdom is that the lower the fees, the better return for the investor, especially if the products are identical, which is pretty much the case for the physically backed gold ETFs, said Michael Johnston, director of ETF Database.
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There, in return for handsome fees, pupils are groomed for elite colleges in Europe and America.
It was also found that promotional offers, return policies and fees had differed by channel as well.
These investors are counting on a fairly steady return from the fees homeowners pay under their long-term contracts.
The False Claims Act lawsuit could require Armstrong to return substantial sponsorship fees and pay a hefty fine.
Last September North Carolina AG Roy Cooper, for example, sued three foreclosure assistance firms for charging upfront fees and delivering nothing in return.
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Their ability to throw weight around can mean higher, return-eating fees that can push up costs for investors, even those who never go near a supermarket.
Since he started Pabrai Investment Funds in 1999, he has delivered a 35.3% compound annual return (after fees), to the 14.2% a year you would have made owning Berkshire shares.
It is impossible for any one manager to significantly add value and it seems likely the vast number of managers will result in, at best, a market rate of return net of fees, with significantly greater investment and operational risk.
At the very least, KPMG is almost certainly going to have to return the audit fees, amounting to tens of millions of dollars, and the firm may be liable for other damages if the courts determine that the firm was in any way derelict in monitoring and supervising Mr. London, who was in charge of some 50 audit partners and 500 employees.
In return it gets management fees and royalties on merchandising, food and the nearby hotels.
Jupiter is looking at absolute-return funds with performance fees, in which it would take some control of asset allocation.
In return, CBI collected fees from hedge funds for bringing clients, in addition to the fees it charged its customers.
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But his investors, like most hedge fund investors, are charged such high fees by Ackman that their actual return in Pershing Square was far lower.
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These children might be expected to do well in any school, so it is not immediately obvious what their parents are getting in return for their school fees.
The complaint also alleges that in addition to covering up the fraud scheme, CAIR forced angry clients who were demanding a return of their legal fees to sign a release that bought the client-victims' silence by prohibiting them from informing law enforcement or the media about the fraud.
That, they calculated, means parents achieved an average 7% return on their investment in fees.
In other words, if Stouffer's success at picking the good ones deteriorates to merely average, your entire return will be consumed by fees.
Take a realistic projection for the bonds and a slightly higher one for the stocks, subtract trading costs and portfolio management fees, and you get a blended return of maybe 5%, says Arnott.
Cornyn's probe could stop the fees, even force the Tobacco Five to return them.
If you choose to rebalance annually or even more frequently in a taxable portfolio, carefully review how the various transactions you'll need to make will affect your tax return, as well as any fees you might incur.
Supporting complaints that Railtrack was investing insufficiently to justify its current high rates of return, he threatened to cap the fees it charges train operators for the use of its track.
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