Tag: vg1 asx review

IS LIC VG1 ASX ABOUT TO WIND UP OR CONVERT TO OPEN ENDED?

Pressure is on Regal Partner’s listed VGI Partners Global Investments (ASX:VG1) vehicle to address the large discount to NTA.

Considering converting to open-ended class might be better for Regal Partner’s bottom line in the long run, not to mention long suffering shareholders.

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ASX LIC PERFORMANCE FEES L1 CAPITAL, THORNEY, WAM CAPITAL, VGI PARTNERS

A recent AFR article reminded me once again about how ASX LIC performance fees are a very nice deal for the fund managers. The article quite rightly posed questions about how they are free to choose whatever benchmark they like. Then why they sometimes are rewarded substantially when the shareholders go backwards, and why there is no standardised format to present what their performance numbers actually are.

In fact it, is due to the issue of ASX LICs choosing all sorts of variations in performance reporting methods that I wanted to explore some LICs in particular. Have they earnt performance fees way out of line with the results they have achieved?

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