#21 - Chris Mauss | Buying & Building Industry Leading Private Businesses

Chris Mauss is the Managing Director for Partners Groups Paris based private equity arm and we discuss everything about European investments, opportunities & outlook.If you’re interested in learning how to generate strong returns, whilst investing and managing over $150 billion USD in private equity, then I think you’re going to really enjoy this conversation with Chris.Chris outlines Partners groups investing universe, which is across four main areas. Private equity, private debt, private real estate, and private infrastructure.What I really enjoyed was discussing Chris’s area of expertise, Private equity. Chris shares his insights and strategies on what he sees they do best, which is business builders. He discusses how they capitalize on thematic growth trends; target buying attractive private companies and then transform these assets into market leaders over a 5 year target period.As of recording, the Global Value Fund which targets a net 10 to 12% performance over a market cycle has returned on average 11.3% over 10 years, 11.1% over 5 years, 10% over 3 years and 6.4% in the past 12 months.So, before we get into the conversation, please remember this podcast is made for entertainment purposes only. I encourage you to listen to the disclaimer at the end of this ROCast and to keep your feedback coming.You can reach me at [email protected]