Research Café: Private Equity Fees and Terms Study

In this installment of the Callan Institute's Research Café, Ashley Kahn, CAIA, of Callan's Alternatives Consulting Group reviews the third edition of Callan's Private Equity Fees and Terms Study, expanding upon our prior studies from 2021 and 2020. With each edition, the study's dataset broadens, and this year it includes 413 funds, representing a wide variety of general partners and strategy types. The study is intended to help institutional investors better evaluate private equity funds, serving as an industry benchmark when comparing a partnership's terms to its peers. This study can also be useful for general partners, to determine how their fees and terms compare to other managers.

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