â¢ Placement fees are often not tax deductible by a manager, making the manager reluctant to bear such fees directly. The typical solution is for the fund to bear the placement fee, but require an offset against management fees of 100% of any placement agent fees paid by such fund.
If your little sister seems fascinated by the harlequin character in the play you're watching together, it might be because of the brightly colored, diamond-patterned tights he's wearing. A harlequin is a classic comic pantomime character. In traditional pantomime, a comic performance with silent actors, a harlequin is a funny character who wears a mask and a distinctive diamond-patterned costume. The word harlequin sometimes describes bright, many-colored colored things, like a harlequin circus tent.
The classical appearance of the Harlequin stock character in the commedia dell'arte of the 1670s, complete with batte or  slapstick , a magic wand used by the character to change the scenery of the play (Maurice Sand, 1860).ristano Martinelli is the first actor definitely known to have used the name 'Harlequin' (or 'Arlequin') for the secondo zanni role, and he probably first performed the part in France in (or just before) 1584 and only later brought the character to Italy, where he became known as Arlecchino.