High Performing MMs/UMMs in PE

Hi y’all. Curious to hear people’s opinions on this. What are some MM/UMM funds that are performing really well?

My mind goes to Marlin, AKKR, STG, GTCR, and firms like that but would love to hear more

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I do not know which ones are best. These are the ones that came to mind but would appreciate input on the topic. I don’t see people discuss top performing MMs too often

 

Would add Maple to this list—more of a crossover fund but private control deals are definitely within their mandate. Returns are lights out so far

 

Give Crosspoint a look. Big veterans and industry experts at senior level and I’m p sure their debut fund was > $1b

 

Isn't this the firm with a bunch of turnover recently? Sorry, not trying to call anyone out. just a name I've heard recently that wasn't doing so well actually. 

 

Marlin is doing terribly, and STG & AKKR are both doing phenomenally given they have raised oversubscribed funds in tough fundraising environments (especially for tech firms) recently. Agree with GTCR as well but that's more of a UMM/MF depending on how you define MF(i.e. if you define it as fund size greater than $10B like some do, GTCR is an MF). A new name I would add is: Arcline, they just raised an oversubscribed $4.5B fund which is quite more than half of their total AUM (total AUM slightly under $9B).

 

Crazy amount raised for a firm of their size and age. For sure keeping up with them

 

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