The lead investors at venture firms earn their keep by collecting management fees to the tune of 2% of the fund size.
If they are weighted by fund size, American funds' average fees dropped slightly from 1995 to 1997, suggesting that larger funds are becoming cheaper as they grow.
Despite some firms raising larger and larger funds, Index has kept its fund size the same, opting to keep to its strategy of finding the best early-stage startups.
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As he shows repeatedly in the book, both fund and industry performance suffers with growth in size (he calculates the correlation between hedge fund size and performance as -0.42).
While the filing of the Form PF will serve both purposes, there does appear to be a discrepancy in deadlines for the annual filing: the CFTC having a 90 day deadline and the SEC with either 120 days or 60 depending on fund size.
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So as the fund grows up, as the fund grows in size, the assets could be reduced.
PIMCO's move is striking not just because of the fund's size and fame but also because the ETF is actively managed.
Underwriters consider a variety of factors in pricing policies, including the fund's size, its strategy, investor-base, performance, volatility, leverage and service providers.
The path to execution: team up, acquire and or merge with existing small to mid-size fund companies that are already doing the job well.
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Although a fund of that size could comfortably deal with the failure of individual banks, it would still not be large enough to prevent bank runs sparked by fear of redenomination.
But leaders resisted a second, much more ambitious move by the commission: to use the same treaty clause to create a stabilisation fund of unlimited size that it would also control, this time borrowing against loan guarantees from national governments.
Calpers, the California pension fund 13 times that size, has just 100 money managers.
Manoj Narang of Tradeworx, argued that high-frequency traders create liquidity and hold less capital than a mid-size hedge fund.
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The land, which was sold to raise money for the Regeneration Investment Fund, varies in size and value from a former industrial site in the Cynon Valley to offices in a business park in Newport to farmland in Gwynedd.
Mr. Tjornehoj said the outflow is "still manageable" given the size of the fund.
So a search is under way to increase the size of the fund without increasing the liabilities of German taxpayers.
The size of a fund, and the point when it needed to mature, could be gauged in the light of predicted illnesses.
But the second wave, in which Ireland was rescued and fresh doubts were raised about the size of the fund, has forced Mrs Merkel to shift.
The committee said it welcomed plans to give control of what remains to councils, but warned against reducing the overall size of the fund too drastically.
The size of the fund has more to do with the lengthening amount of time required by VC firms to support their portfolio companies, the LP noted.
However, the claims that the defects can be passed on, if proven, would add strength to Thalidomide UK's repeated calls for the size of the fund to be boosted.
The firm wanted to keep the new fund at roughly the same size as its last one, believing that that is the right size for a firm with five partners, said general partner Tom Banahan.
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"What would be the size of the fund, how much are we required to contribute and whether it is enough to cover the reinsurance risk, this is something the insurance companies have to work out, " he said.
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The obvious answer is to increase its size, but the fund has an inherent weakness.
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But here is some background that might provide some insight and clarity on the size of the hedge fund industry.
Since First Round has increased its partnership it has decided to increase the size of its current Fund IV by 15%.
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Fitzrovia calculates that while the number of offshore equity funds has doubled since 1993, the size of the average fund is unchanged.
For instance, they know that GPs invest in firm infrastructure and personnel based on the projected size of their next fund and the management fees they can be expected to generate.
The chancellor, who is travelling to Luxembourg for a meeting with European finance ministers, told BBC News that the 17 eurozone nations meeting in Luxembourg on Monday must decisively figure out how to handle Greece's debts, and urged them to extend the size of their bailout fund.
Yesterday the Financial Times reported that Europe was in discussions to increase the size of the EFSF bailout fund.
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