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Alignment of interests, what this section is actually checking for
A large GP commitment is a strong signal. It is not the only one this section reads, and a fund that leads with commitment size alone is answering only part of the question.
GP commitment size is the number most first-time managers assume this section is about, and it matters, but it is one input among several. This section also asks how the commitment is funded, how carry vests and what triggers a clawback, and whether the fund's use of a credit facility, covered in its own section of this pillar, works for or against the alignment the fund claims to have.
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GP commitment, and how it is actually funded
The commitment figure itself matters less in isolation than how it is funded. A commitment funded by a management company loan, rather than personal capital actually at risk, needs to be disclosed as such explicitly. An allocator reading a strong headline commitment number that turns out to be financed rather than personally funded reads that gap as the disclosure failure, not the financing choice itself, which would likely have been an acceptable answer if stated plainly from the start.
Carry, vesting, and clawback
- The carry percentage and any hurdle or preferred return that must be cleared before carry accrues.
- The vesting schedule for carry across the partnership, showing that alignment persists across the fund's full life rather than concentrating early.
- The clawback mechanism, specifically what happens if carry paid out early is later found to exceed what the fund's actual performance supports.
Where credit facility use cuts against alignment
A subscription line or NAV facility, covered in detail on its own page in this pillar, has a direct bearing on alignment: drawing on a facility to delay a capital call can inflate near-term IRR in a way that benefits carry calculations before the fund's actual performance has caught up. A fund with a written, disclosed facility policy is not penalized for using one. A fund whose facility use is undisclosed, and whose IRR happens to look better than its cash-on-cash performance would otherwise suggest, is inviting exactly the question this section exists to ask.
A GP commitment funded by a management company loan needs to be disclosed as such, explicitly, the same way a facility that inflates near-term IRR needs its own written policy. Both are answerable questions. Undisclosed, either becomes the finding.
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