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SEIDES: Yeah, well, it’s a huge problem and it’s an intractable problem because of the way incentive systems work in the asset management industry, everyone across the food chain of capital is reporting to somebody else. And through that reporting, people have to generate performance. How would you have done?
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.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. So why rock the boat?
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