Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

We thank Stephen Brown, Joe Chen, Emanuel Derman, William Fung, Antti Ilmanen, Charles Jones, Peter Muller, Eli Ofek, and Xiaoyan Zhang for helpful conversations and comments. We are grateful to seminar participants at Columbia University, the Conference Board, the BSI GAMMA conference on hedge funds in Milan, The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association for helpful comments. The authors acknowledge funding from a grant from the BSI GAMMA Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.