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by vasilipupkin 2469 days ago
doing a fund by fund analysis is not unfair as funds are marketed to LPs separately. It does me no good that fund ABC had 30% IRR if fund XYZ that I am invested in from tbe same brand of manager is earning 1.5% IRR.

"IRR can be deceiving as it is time based". No, it's the other way. A return without mentioning how long it took to earn it is deceiving.

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> A return without mentioning how long it took to earn it is deceiving.

Except that this is how some LPs want it to be reported, so how do you explain that? If you want to do a comparison to stock market returns ("seeking alpha") then sure, IRR makes sense.