Just for kicks, I went to look at the performance of my old firm. All their equity funds are underperforming their indices for past 3,5, and 10 years. Their income stuff are beating slightly. They don't manage not exotic stuff. The benchmarks are like S&P 500, MSCI EAFE/World... So much underperformance but yet AUM up by hundreds of billions in last couple of years.
It such a good racket...
At least my old firm only charges 40-70 bps for their funds....