If you had $50M-$100M of your own money to invest (no LPs to worry about), do you think you could make better returns in LMM PE or public markets?

As someone in PE I feel like I would be much better off investing in public markets but would love to hear both private and public investor viewpoint. LMM/MM PE just feels wayyyyy to crowded right now.

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