sample depot

Unfortunately, we only started running a "sample depot" (upon request) in August '23; i. e. we started with a fictitious amount of $100,000.00 to visually represent our performance. Of course, with the awareness that this can only be an approximate value of your investment, as many individual factors come into play, such as: E.g. willingness to take risks, preferences, etc. Furthermore, going back to 1998 would only create resentment, since with everything we expect in the next few years, this performance can increase exponentially.

As you know, past successes are no guarantee for the future: so prepare to be surprised! Despite all modesty, we feel that we and our team, encouraged by these past successes, are able to take on and surpass even the greatest investors in the world, such as Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger; at least in the area of stocks. Why are we so sure about this?

- Because we use our "emotional intelligence" to achieve these successes - but that's another topic (which we'll talk about in more detail elsewhere...).

If you are interested, here is the list of the top 50 companies (-> Wikipedia):

Rang 2019	Rang 2015	Rang 2014	Rang 2013	Unternehmen	Sitz	Angelegtes Kapital in Mio. (2019)
1	4	3	3	Blackstone Group	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$82.851
2	1	1	2	Carlyle Group	Washington, D.C.,  Vereinigte Staaten	$63.802
3	3	2	4	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$47.977
4	6	6	10	CVC Capital Partners	Luxemburg,  Luxemburg	$47.413
5	9	14	5	Warburg Pincus	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$36.557
6	10	21	9	Bain Capital	Boston,  Vereinigte Staaten	$35.554
7	18	26	40	EQT Partners	Stockholm,  Schweden	$30.054
8	32			Thoma Bravo	Chicago,  Vereinigte Staaten	$29.880
9	5	4	8	Apollo Global Management	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$29.001
10	23			Neuberger Berman	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$28.884
11	14	22	22	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco,  Vereinigte Staaten	$26.900
12	2	5	1	Texas Pacific Group	Fort Worth,  Vereinigte Staaten	$25.661
13	7	11	16	EnCap Investments	Houston,  Vereinigte Staaten	$21.097
14	11	48	59	Vista Equity Partners	San Francisco,  Vereinigte Staaten	$19.785
15	34	29	52	Apax Partners	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich	$18.615
16	28	7	12	General Atlantic	Greenwich (Connecticut),  Vereinigte Staaten	$16.916
17	27	9	33	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$16.509
18	17	36		Permira	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich	$16.394
19	8	10	7	Advent International	Boston,  Vereinigte Staaten	$16.026
20	13	15	27	Silver Lake	Menlo Park,  Vereinigte Staaten	$15.000
21	12			Partners Group	Baar ZG,  Schweiz	$14.726
22	24	23	81	Stone Point Capital	Greenwich (Connecticut),  Vereinigte Staaten	$14.544
23	37			Bridgepoint	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich	$14.264
24				Brookfield Asset Management	Toronto,  Kanada	$14.197
25	31	18	43	Onex Corporation	Toronto,  Kanada	$14.106
26	26	24	23	BC Partners	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich	$13.275
27				Genstar Capital	San Francisco,  Vereinigte Staaten	$13.100
28				PAI partners	Paris,  Frankreich	$13.061
29				Hillhouse Capital Group	Peking,  Volksrepublik China	$12.725
30	47	39	39	Leonard Green & Partners	Los Angeles,  Vereinigte Staaten	$12.238
31	35			Insight Venture Partners	New York,  Vereinigte Staaten	$12.236
32	25			American Securities Capital Partners	New York,  Vereinigte Staaten	$12.000
33	44			Baring Private Equity Asia	Hongkong	$11.833
34	29	27	30	Cinven	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich	$11.548
35	19			NGP Energy Capital Management	Irving,  Vereinigte Staaten	$11.355
36		19	29	Ardian (AXA Private Equity)	Paris,  Frankreich	$10.975
37				New Mountain Capital	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$10.585
38	21	12	6	Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$10.500
39	41			Tiger Global Management	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$10.250
40				Quantum Energy Partners	Houston,  Vereinigte Staaten	$10.040
41				Pacific Alliance Group	Hongkong	$9.950
42	20	16	11	Riverstone Holdings	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten	$9.904
43				L Catterton	Greenwich (Connecticut),  Vereinigte Staaten	$9.838
44				Affinity Equity Partners	Hongkong	$9.800
45				HarbourVest Partners	Boston,  Vereinigte Staaten	$9.599
46	39	33	101	GTCR Golder Rauner	Chicago,  Vereinigte Staaten	$9.100
47				Roark Capital Group	Atlanta,  Vereinigte Staaten	$9.000
48				Eurazeo	Paris,  Frankreich	$8.956
49	22	8	18	Ares Management	Los Angeles,  Vereinigte Staaten	$8.650
50				Adams Street Partners	Chicago,  Vereinigte Staaten	$8.498
	15			Centerbridge Capital Partners	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
	16	37	50	Energy Capital Partners	Short Hills (New Jersey),  Vereinigte Staaten
	30	32		Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)	Moskau,  Russland
	33	35	90	HgCapital	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich
	36	30	57	Triton Partners	Frankfurt am Main,  Deutschland
	38			BDT Capital Partners	Chicago,  Vereinigte Staaten
	40			Pamplona Capital Management	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich
	42	34	51	Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
	43	43	48	RRJ Capital	Hongkong
	45	47	44	Sequoia Capital	Menlo Park,  Vereinigte Staaten
	46			Energy & Minerals Group (EMG)	Houston,  Vereinigte Staaten
	48	17	14	Oaktree Capital Management	Los Angeles,  Vereinigte Staaten
	49			Abraaj Group	Dubai,  Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
	50	40		Georgian Co-investment Fund (GCF)	Tiflis,  Georgien
		13	53	EIG Global Energy Partners	Washington, D.C.,  Vereinigte Staaten
		20	15	Lone Star Funds	Dallas,  Vereinigte Staaten
		25	13	JP Morgan Asset Management	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
		28	31	Mount Kellett Capital	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
		31	36	Cerberus Capital Management	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
		38	25	Nordic Capital	Stockholm,  Schweden
		41	46	TA Associates	Boston,  Vereinigte Staaten
		42	28	American Capital	Bethesda (Maryland),  Vereinigte Staaten
		44	202	Pine Brook Road Partners	New York City,  Vereinigte Staaten
		45	62	Charterhouse Capital Partners	London,  Vereinigtes Königreich
		46	35	CDH Investments	Hongkong
		49	67	AlpInvest Partners	Amsterdam,  Niederlande
		50	102	MBK Partners	Seoul,  Südkorea

However, the fixed assets say nothing about the performance of these giants.

- Apart from the fact that they hardly make their business internals available to the public. - Modest as we are, we don't take transparency too seriously and even "brag" about how we achieve our achievements. So if you want to see in detail how the above chart comes to be (and came to be), take a few minutes and check for yourself. You'll notice that we also only cook with water; But the content of the resulting soup is crucial for its taste: -> Sample Depot