Moreover, professional managers are typically judged and compensated by how well they track a given benchmark.
Not all managers charge the "two-and-twenty" of legend (a 2% annual fee plus 20% of the return over a given benchmark) but enough do to make this a very high hurdle to overcome.
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Even if no profits are realized, private-equity firms get paid: under the "2 and 20" compensation structure, they receive a two-per-cent fee annually on assets under management, in addition to a twenty-per-cent cut of profits beyond a given benchmark.
We then use it to find the portfolio that approximately stochastically dominates a given benchmark with the best possible approximation.
Given Benchmark's reported 10percentt stake in Uber, its partners each stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars from the company in carried interest.
The proposed method is very robust and is suitable for treating general high-dimensional problems such as the given benchmark problems.
