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Fees vs. returns

Fees vs. returns.

What do investors get for what they pay?

One diagnostic view of what each fund charges against what it delivered. This is not a ranking, and the chart does not imply that fees caused returns.

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Structure

Showing 50 funds with a 1 year return and net expense ratio for the same period, ending 2026-03-31.

0%2%4%6%8%10%+0%+5%+10%+15%+20%Net expense ratioAnnualized return
1 year annualized return versus reported net expense ratio. Every point uses the same period ending 2026-03-31. This view does not require the eight-fund quartile-ranking minimum. Returns are net of fund-level fees and expenses reflected in the fund’s NAV or shareholder return; investor-specific sales charges and taxes are excluded unless a cited source states otherwise. Expense ratios remain exactly as filed. When a filing supplies more than one net row, the chart prefers the after-waiver or after-reimbursement row and then the row with the clearest component disclosure. Hover for exact values and as-of dates; select a point to open both source trails. No trendline, regression, or quadrant labels are used.
Expense-basis differences (3 of 50 plotted funds)

Net expense ratio is not one uniform GAAP measure. Filers differ on borrowing costs, incentive fees, acquired-fund expenses, taxes, and fee support. These are direct comparisons of the reported shareholder expense burden, not normalized estimates.

  • Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX) (Interval Fund): excludes interest.
  • Federated Hermes Project & Trade Finance Tender Fund (Tender-Offer Fund): excludes acquired-fund expenses.
  • Coller Secondaries Private Equity Opportunities Fund (Tender-Offer Fund): excludes acquired-fund expenses.