Variants Due To Inflation
One problem with the Lehman Formula is inflation. A five million dollar deal was significant when the formula was designed in the 1960s, but today it is small. However, rather than indexing the formula for inflation, most investment services ended up making adjustments to the formula to provide fee protection for the first few million dollars of transaction value.
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