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laughed and tried to upvote your comment but got “in order to vote…” and couldn’t. this app is actual dogshit

 

Elite firm with elite returns, and a great account to cover on the IB side since they are so active as well. Very smart and sharp dudes over at HIG. Lots of senior bankers make a lot of their living working with HIG. They do have zero's as well, but that's expected given their strategy.

 

Not sure why you got MS but H.I.G. does indeed have a higher loss ratio than others. That being said, their fund performance has still done pretty well (we see their docs all the time as a FoF). Pretty sure most of these investments came from their Flagship LMM fund, for which the 2007 vintage was marked at ~34% net IRR  4x net MOIC and the 2014 vintage was still marked at ~42% net IRR / 4.5x MOIC iirc. Fund-level performance is obviously not 8x+ or anything like the investments shown but still top decile.

 

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Not sure why you got MS but H.I.G. does indeed have a higher loss ratio than others. That being said, their fund performance has still done pretty well (we see their docs all the time as a FoF). Pretty sure most of these investments came from their Flagship LMM fund, for which the 2007 vintage was marked at ~34% net IRR  4x net MOIC and the 2014 vintage was still marked at ~42% net IRR / 4.5x MOIC iirc. Fund-level performance is obviously not 8x+ or anything like the investments shown but still top decile.

Came across this thread while looking into HIG and your comment stood out to me. I'm kicking off a recruiting process over the next few weeks as an experienced associate for either a senior associate / VP role. Would be very curious to get some insight into how different funds are performing based on your experience. Would you be open to a conversation? 

 

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