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Snip from article: "But there's no depth too low for PE looters to sink to. They've found an exciting new way to steal from their investors, a scam called a "continuation fund." Writing in his latest newsletter, the great Matt Levine breaks it down: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-buyout-funds-buy-from-themselves Here's the deal: say you're a PE guy who's raised a $1b fund. That entitles you to a 2% annual "carry" on the fund: $20,000,000/year. But you've managed to buy and asset strip so many productive businesses that it's now worth $5b. Your carry doesn't go up fivefold. You could sell the company and collect your 20% commission – $800m – but you stop collecting that annual carry. But what if you do both? Here's how: you create a "continuation fund" – a fund that buys your old fund's portfolio. Now you've got $5b under management and your carry quintuples, to $100m/year. Levine dryly notes that the FT calls this "a controversial type of transaction""