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Not exhaustive and focused on investors with a US presence:

Large cap: KKR, GIP (Blackrock), Blackstone, EQT, Brookfield, Stonepeak, Digitalbridge (digital tilt), MAM

Mid-cap: ISquared, Antin, IFM (core tilt), Arclight (energy tilt), Igneo, InfraRed, Basalt, ECP (energy tilt), EIG (energy tilt), Quantum (energy), CIP (renewables tilt)

GIP, KKR, BX, EQT, and Brookfield generally seen as leaders given fund size but many of the others have done exceptionally well especially some with more of an industry tilt.

 

Don't think you can bucket IFM as Mid-cap. While they target Core returns, they invest out of their USD 55- 70Bn funds. While you might say their open-ended structure isn't a like-for-like, they're also known to do large ticket sizes -> see Switch DC is US

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This is a list of everyone who’s in it, but not every one of these firms is a top investor.

Take a good long look at each of the less well known names’ last fundraise amount vs the prior fund, how long they took to close that fund, and for those that are publicly traded, their stock price.

some areas of infrastructure have had immense macro and secular tailwinds for the last couple of years, and if a firm has a large concentration in any of those tailwinds but isn’t doing well in the aforementioned metrics, you should ask yourself why.

If they’ve been investing in a hot space but unable to deliver much exits, you should ask yourself why.


If they have had high turnover despite one of the worst multi-year job market downturns in a while, you should again ask yourself why

 

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This is a list of everyone who’s in it, but not every one of these firms is a top investor.

Take a good long look at each of the less well known names’ last fundraise amount vs the prior fund, how long they took to close that fund, and for those that are publicly traded, their stock price.

some areas of infrastructure have had immense macro and secular tailwinds for the last couple of years, and if a firm has a large concentration in any of those tailwinds but isn’t doing well in the aforementioned metrics, you should ask yourself why.

If they’ve been investing in a hot space but unable to deliver much exits, you should ask yourself why.


If they have had high turnover despite one of the worst multi-year job market downturns in a while, you should again ask yourself why

Ok I’ll bite since this is a really good comment (and the guys at Generate will throw MS at me regardless) 

Share price issues: DB and Antin (maybe Brookfield too)…what is the story with DB tanking?


High turnover: All of them at junior levels? Unless this is a comment about partner level

DPI / exits issues: probably some of the smaller names on the list? 


 

 

Digital bridge is good but only does platform level deals. Just got bought by SoftBank so unsure how things will change from a comp / culture standpoint.  Blue Owl has a group that focusses more on asset level. They do some wholeco deals in fiber and other digital related businesses but they have their 3 main data center PortCos and do asset deals via those 

 

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