Patria (PAX) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Patria (PAX) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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CALL PARTICIPANTS -
Investor Relations Director - Andre Medina
Chief Executive Officer - Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh
Chief Financial Officer - Raphael Denadai
TAKEAWAYS -
Total Fundraising -- $2.3 billion in the second quarter, bringing the year-to-date total to $4.5 billion and maintaining progress toward a $7 billion annual target.
Fee-Earning AUM -- $48.9 billion, representing a 32% increase from the prior year and a 7% increase from the first quarter of 2026.
Fee-Related Earnings -- $57.1 million for the quarter, reflecting 24% year-over-year growth driven by organic net inflows and recent acquisitions.
Distributable Earnings Per Share -- $0.32, an increase of 31% year over year and 19% sequentially.
Full-Year FRE Guidance -- $225 million to $245 million, reflecting expected per-share earnings of $1.42 to $1.54.
FRE Margin -- 54% in the second quarter, compared to 54.6% in the first quarter of 2026, influenced by the timing of acquisition integrations.
2027 FRE Target -- $260 million to $290 million, which translates to a per-share range of $1.60 to $1.80.
Credit Fundraising -- $650 million raised in the second quarter, driven by interest in dollar-denominated private credit and the acquisition of the Solis CLO business.
GPMS Fundraising -- $676 million in total commitments for SOF V, exceeding the original $500 million target by 35%.
Multiasset SMA -- $1 billion commitment from a sovereign wealth fund client, expanding the strategic partnership through a flexible investment mandate.
Pending Fee-Earning AUM -- $4 billion, a 20% increase from the first quarter of 2026, providing visibility into future revenue growth.
Permanent Capital -- $11 billion, representing approximately 22% of total fee-earning AUM and contributing to earnings durability.
Management Fee Revenue -- $105.8 million, up 30% year over year and 14% sequentially, including $1.5 million of catch-up fees.
Management Fee Rate -- 86 basis points for the last 12 months, reflecting the impact of asset mix changes and recent transactions.
Bond Offering -- $350 million successfully completed with coupons from 6.0% to 6.6%, using proceeds to retire existing credit facility debt.
Stock-Based Compensation -- $13.5 million for the quarter, consistent with management's annual guidance of 12% of total fee revenues.
Effective Tax Rate -- 9% in the second quarter, reflecting the firm's evolving business mix across jurisdictions.
Share Buybacks -- 1.5 million shares repurchased through a total return swap facility at a cost of $18.3 million.
Quarterly Dividend -- $0.1625 per share declared, payable to shareholders of record as of Aug. 10, 2026.
Capital Structure Objectives -- Management targeted a long-term share count between 158 million and 160 million.
Transaction and Restructuring Costs -- $11 million in the second quarter, with projected declines to $7 million to $8 million per quarter for the second half of 2026.
Incentive Fees -- $2.5 million attributable to real estate and Solis semiannual performance fees.
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RISKS -
Saigh stated, "buyout Funds IV and V, which together represent under $2 billion of AUM or under $1.3 billion of fee-earning AUM have, as previously disclosed, not performed well, and we have marked these funds down in the quarter," noting these investments were affected by high interest rates in Brazil and post-COVID macroeconomic adversities.
Denadai stated, "we now expect our FRE margin for the full year 2026 to fall modestly below our 58% to 60% target," citing the short-term impact of acquisitions occurring at a faster pace than originally projected.
Management reported that the company experienced continued fundraising momentum while maintaining its annual capital formation targets. The integration of recent acquisitions, including the closing of the WP Global Partners transaction, influenced expense growth and fee-related earnings margins during the quarter. The company stated that it remains on track for its full-year financial objectives despite short-term margin fluctuations resulting from the timing of these strategic integrations. Asset class diversification progressed through new commitments to multiasset mandates and the expansion of the credit platform.
The new $1 billion multiasset mandate allows capital to be deployed flexibly across asset classes, which Saigh stated "reflects the growing demand for Patria's solutions-oriented approach."
Management indicated that fundraising in North America is recovering, with Saigh stating, "we see some light at the end of the tunnel there in North America" following successful commitments to the secondaries platform.
Saigh noted that portfolio companies in Private Equity Funds VI and VII "have little to no leverage and have been performing well, growing EBITDA by approximately 10.5% on average over the past 2 years."
Future M&A activity will be more selective, with Saigh noting that growth will shift toward organic initiatives and smaller "acqui-hires" rather than large-scale transactions.
The company has visible line of sight to deploy approximately $1 billion of pending fee-earning AUM into infrastructure projects, specifically citing a Data Center initiative.
Saigh expressed optimism regarding South America, noting "a meaningful shift toward more market-friendly governments" in countries such as Chile and Colombia.
Management attributed a 16% sequential increase in expenses to the accelerated onboarding of Solis and WP Global Partners, noting these businesses currently operate at lower margins than the core platform.
INDUSTRY GLOSSARY -
CLO: Collateralized Loan Obligation; a form of securitization where payments from a pool of middle-market loans are used to fund various classes of debt.
DE: Distributable Earnings; a non-GAAP metric used to assess the firm's capacity to pay dividends to shareholders.
FEAUM: Fee-Earning Assets Under Management; the portion of total assets on which the firm earns management fees.
FRE: Fee-Related Earnings; a measure of core operating profitability that excludes performance fees and investment income.
GPMS: Global Private Markets Solutions; the firm's asset class focused on secondary investments and private market solutions.
Permanent Capital: Capital held in vehicles with no set maturity date or limited redemption rights, providing a long-term stable fee base.
SMA: Separately Managed Account; a private investment vehicle managed for a single institutional client rather than a commingled pool of investors.
SOF V: Secondary Opportunities Fund V; the firm's fifth-vintage flagship secondaries fund.
Tria: The company's proprietary trading platform that contributes to financial income.
TRS: Total Return Swap; a financial contract used by the firm to execute share repurchases.
Full Conference Call Transcript
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Patria's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Andre Medina, Investor Relations Director. Please go ahead.
Andre Medina: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Patria's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. Speaking today are our Chief Executive Officer, Alex Saigh; and our Chief Financial Officer, Raphael Denadai. This morning, we issued a press release and earnings presentation available on our Investor Relations website and on Form 6-K furnished to the SEC. A replay will be available on our IR website. As a reminder, today's call contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to our guidance and targets, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, do not guarantee future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Please refer to the forward-looking statements disclaimer and risk factors in our most recent Form 20-F.
Patria reports under IFRS and will reference certain non-IFRS measures. Definitions and reconciliations to the most directly comparable IFRS measures are in the earnings presentation. With that, I'll hand it over to Alex.
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Thank you, Andre. Good morning, everyone. Our second quarter results reflect continued strong fundraising momentum, supported by consistent investment performance across our diversified platform. Fundraising in the quarter totaled $2.3 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to $4.5 billion and keeping us on track to exceed our full year fundraising target of $7 billion. Given the strong momentum in investor demand, we continue to believe fundraising can surpass our 2025 all-time record of $7.7 billion, and we are on pace to exceed our 3-year fundraising target of $21 billion from 2025 through 2027.
Fee-earning AUM reached $48.9 billion, up approximately 7% from first quarter '26 and 32% from 1 year ago, reflecting year-over-year organic growth, the closing of 3 acquisitions and positive investment performance, primarily in credit, real estate, public equities and GPMS. The growth in fee-earning AUM drove fee-related earnings of $57.1 million for the quarter, up 13% sequentially and 24% year-over-year, and we remain on track to achieve our full year FRE guidance of $225 million to $245 million. Finally, distributable earnings per share of $0.32 rose 19% sequentially and 31% year-over-year. Raphael will take you through our financials in more detail. Investment performance. Our investment performance remains consistent and continues to support fundraising across the platform.
Over 85% of our current fee-earning AUM, excluding SMAs and third-party managed funds, which are not reported, are invested in funds performing at or above their benchmarks since inception. In credit, our flagship LatAm high-yield strategy with over $5.5 billion in fee-earning AUM has generated 11% annualized net returns in U.S. dollars since its inception 26 years ago, outperforming its benchmark by more than 360 basis points. As you can see in our earnings presentation, this strategy is outperforming its benchmark for all periods presented, including year-to-date 1, 3 and 5 years. In infrastructure, the pooled return of our latest 3 vintages, which are our active funds, exceeds the benchmark by more than 750 basis points.
In Global Private Markets Solutions, our two active and more mature commingled secondary funds, SOF III and SOF IV, are outperforming their benchmarks by 650 and 560 basis points, respectively. For further information on our investment performance, please refer to Pages 17 to 21 of our second quarter '26 Earnings Presentation. Now in private equity, two of our older active vintages, our buyout Funds IV and V, which together represent under $2 billion of AUM or under $1.3 billion of fee-earning AUM have, as previously disclosed, not performed well, and we have marked these funds down in the quarter.
Among other things, these funds have been seeking divestments through an atypically long period of high interest rates in Brazil and several of their investments were severely affected by long-standing macroeconomic adversities in the aftermath of COVID as well as by sector-specific shocks. These challenges and our focus on accelerating divestments from these funds to expedite the return of capital to investors are now reflected in their marks. Importantly, the management fees for our private equity drawdown funds, funds in which committed capital is deployed gradually into investments are not impacted by portfolio markdowns or markups as fees are charged on invested cost.
In addition, Fund IV has not generated management fees for the last 2 years and both Funds IV and V have no accrued performance fees since the fourth quarter of '25. So these markdowns do not impact our net accrued performance fees. These two older private equity vintages do not describe our private equity franchise today. We have made significant changes to our private equity team and strategy over the past few years and Funds VI and VII were invested in a different macro environment. Of note, portfolio companies in Funds VI and VII have little to no leverage and have been performing well, growing EBITDA by approximately 10.5% on average over the past 2 years.
It is important to note that while approximately 30% of our fee-earning AUM, which are mainly in drawdown funds and earn fees predominantly on invested capital at cost, approximately 70% of our fee-earning AUM are in funds, mostly in credit, real estate and public equities that charge fees on the market value of traded securities, and where, therefore, investment performance directly translates into revenue growth. Fundraising. Now, let me provide some additional color on fundraising. A key highlight of the quarter was a new $1-billion commitment from an existing sovereign wealth fund client to a multi-asset separately managed account.
This mandate significantly expands our relationship with the client and reflects the growing demand for Patria's solutions-oriented approach, allowing capital to be deployed flexibly across asset classes and strategies. We believe this type of mandate is particularly attractive given its stable, long-duration capital profile and its ability to deepen strategic partnerships with investors. Now, on credit. Focusing more specifically on our asset classes, credit remained a strong contributor to fundraising with over $650 million raised in the quarter, bringing the year-to-date total to approximately $1.6 billion.
Demand momentum continues, driven by the aforementioned strong performance across our public credit strategies, the growing interest in dollar-denominated private credit funds and the multiple structural growth drivers, namely banking disintermediation and the broader financial deepening, which are supporting the growth of Solis, our recently acquired CLO business in Brazil. Solis has raised over $500 million since we closed the transaction at the start of the year. Now, on Global Private Markets Solutions. For Global Private Markets Solutions, the fundraising highlight of the quarter was the final close of SOF V, our fifth-vintage flagship secondaries commingled fund. Total commitments to this fund reached $676 million, exceeding our original fundraising target of $500 million by approximately 35%.
Re-up investors represented approximately 36% of commitments with the balance comprising a combination of existing and new investor relationships. The fund attracted capital from five regions with North America representing over 50% of capital commitments, followed by Europe at approximately 40%, together with additional commitments from investors across Latin America, the Middle East and APAC. Of course, a key focus for GPMS during the quarter was the closing on April 1 and onboarding of our WP Global Partners acquisition, which expands our lower-middle-market private equity solutions platform in the U.S.
We are pleased with the progress we have made to date, with the WP team successfully integrated into our New York office and already contributing to investment activity across the GPMS platform. Now, on infrastructure. In infrastructure, we are excited about our Infra Core strategy and are targeting a first closing later this year alongside its inaugural deal. This strategy focuses on a pipeline of mature infrastructure assets in Latin America with contracted U.S. dollar revenues, mainly in Chile, Colombia and Brazil and seeks an attractive return premium versus similar global funds.
Infrastructure also represents one of the primary areas of interest within our SMAs, and we expect a significant portion of the capital associated with our recently secured $1 billion multi-asset mandate to be allocated to this asset class. Of note, during the first half of the year through the deployment of capital sourced from a variety of fee-paying SMAs and co-investments, infrastructure added $5 million of annual recurring net revenues to Patria. We continue to see significant opportunities to deploy our growing base of dry powder over the coming years into sizable projects such as our Data Center initiative, and we have visible line of sight to deploy its approximately $1 billion of pending fee-earning AUM. Now, on AUM quality.
Our fundraising success continues to reflect the evolution of Patria's platform. Since our IPO, we have expanded from 2 flagship strategies with the capacity to raise more than $1 billion per vintage to at least 10 flagship strategies. This diversification has strengthened both the quality and resilience of our earnings base with approximately 90% of fee-earning AUM invested in vehicles with limited or no redemption rights and approximately $11 billion of permanent capital, representing roughly 22% of total fee-earning AUM. Pending fee-earning AUM increased approximately 20% in the quarter to $4 billion, supported in part by our new multi-asset SMA mandate, providing meaningful visibility into future fee growth. Now, on macro context.
With respect to the broader operating environment, our view remains unchanged. The geopolitical backdrop continues to be supportive of Latin America and particularly of South America, where we are seeing a meaningful shift toward more market-friendly governments. Institutional investors across Asia and Europe continue to engage with us across a wider range of strategies than historically, while existing clients are further deepening their relationships with the firm as evidenced by the recently closed $1 billion multi-asset mandate. In summary, our execution remains very consistent. Fundraising momentum continues. And with $4.5 billion raised year-to-date, we see a clear pathway to potentially yet another record year of fundraising.
With our capital formation and asset growth increasingly driven by long-duration vehicles, we conclude the quarter with even greater confidence in our ability to achieve both our 2026 financial objectives and the longer-term goals outlined in our 2027 vision. For example, our year-to-date FRE totaled $108 million. If we simply annualize this figure and include the same incentive fees we reported in 2025, our FRE would be more than $225 million, already at our target range, even before accounting for incremental growth in fee-earning AUM and fees we are seeing quarter-over-quarter. With that, I will hand the call to Raphael. Thank you.
Raphael Denadai: Thank you, Alex. Good morning, everyone. I will now take you through the second quarter results. Fee revenue and expenses. Total fee revenues for the quarter were approximately $105.8 million, up 30% year-over-year and 14% sequentially. Fee revenues in the quarter include $1.5 million of catch-up fees related to the final closing of SOF V. Growth in fee revenues was driven by fee-earning AUM growth of 32% year-over-year and 7% sequentially, supported by net organic inflows, positive investment performance and the three acquisitions completed this year. Incentive fees of $2.5 million in the second quarter were attributable to real estate and Solis, which earns incentive fees semiannually.
Solis also contributed $0.4 million of structuring fees, which are included in Other Fee Revenues. These fees are a regular feature of our private credit business. And although the specific timing and size of the structuring fees are difficult to forecast, we expect that over time they will be an attractive source of incremental fee revenues. Our last 12 months average management fee rate in the quarter was approximately 86 basis points, reflecting the impact of WP transaction as well as the continued growth in Credit, Real Estate, GPMS and various co-investments and SMAs over the recent quarters. FRE & Margin.
Our fee-related earnings in the second quarter of 2026 were approximately $57.1 million, up 24% year-over-year and 13% sequentially, driven by the strong growth in our net fee revenues, partially offset by 16% sequential growth in expenses. Our FRE margin came in at 54% compared to 54.6% in the prior quarter. Among other things, our FRE margin reflects the short-term impact of acquisitions, which occurred at a faster pace and larger AUM volume than expected as of our original guidance, and also the impacts of FX, normal expense growth, including annual promotions, and ongoing investment in our platform.
Indeed, given the evident success we have been having in our fundraising initiatives, we have been steadily focused on continuing to invest in our platform as we expand our global marketing, distribution and product capabilities. In light of these factors, we now expect our FRE margin for the full year 2026 to fall modestly below our 58% to 60% target, although we remain confident in our 58% to 60% target for 2027 and onwards. Now while the FRE margin is a key byproduct of our financial results, it's important to highlight that our focus is primarily on FRE, not simply the FRE margin.
And in that regard, as Alex noted, we remain confident that we are on track to meet our 2026 FRE objective of $225 million to $245 million or $1.42 to $1.54 per share, representing approximately 11% to 21% growth from last year's $202.5 million. We are also maintaining our 2027 FRE target of $260 million to $290 million or $1.60 to $1.80 per share. Distributable earnings. Total distributable earnings for the quarter were $50.7 million or $0.32 per share, up 31% year-over-year and 19% sequentially on a per share basis. This growth was driven primarily by the increase in FRE as we generate no performance-related earnings in the quarter.
In addition, our net financial expense of $1.5 million benefited from $2.9 million of contribution from Tria, our trading platform as well as higher investment income, which was partially offset by higher interest expenses related to the $350 million bond offering we successfully completed early in the quarter. While the contribution from Tria is difficult to forecast and can vary sharply quarter-to-quarter, over the past 6 quarters, the contribution from Tria has averaged about $1.4 million per quarter. Over time, we expect the contribution from Tria to grow as the business continues to expand its capabilities. Stock-based compensation.
Stock-based compensation in the quarter was $13.5 million, totaling $23.6 million year-to-date or 12% of total fee revenues, consistent with our recent guidance. Tax. Now with regards to taxes, the second quarter 2026 effective rate was approximately 9%, reflecting our evolving business mix and also consistent with our guidance. Balance Sheet & Capital Management. Regarding the balance sheet, as previously mentioned, we completed our $350 million bond offering early in the quarter, the proceeds from which we paid our outstanding credit facility with the remaining cash available to fund various M&A-related payments, share repurchases and growth initiatives.
Also, as previously reported, we completed a second TRS facility in which we repurchased a total of 1.5 million shares for a total cost of $18.3 million. This facility matures in the second quarter of 2027. We also are in the process of refinancing and slightly increase the size of our first TRS facility by an additional 1.3 million shares to 2.8 million shares, which we expect will total approximately $31 million and mature in the third quarter of 2027. We the slide we introduced last quarter in the reconciliations and disclosures section of our earnings presentation, which highlights our incurred liabilities through 2028, so you can continue to have a clear picture of our future obligations.
Supported by the debt offering proceeds, expected cash generation and our available undrawn credit facility, we believe we have ample liquidity to meet all obligations, fund dividends, reinvest in the business and repurchase shares while maintaining a conservative balance sheet. In this context, share count for the quarter was 159.5 million shares, and it remains our long-term goal to maintain the share count in the 158 million to 160 million range. To summarize, we believe our financial position remains strong. We continue to generate growing, durable cash flows from a highly diversified and long-duration asset base.
Strong fundraising momentum and growing fee-related earnings reinforce our confidence in achieving our growth objectives, while our balance sheet remains well positioned to support future growth. We look forward to your questions.
Operator:[Operator Instructions] And our first question is going to come from Tito Labarta with Goldman Sachs.
Daer Labarta: Congratulations on the results. My question on the fees, very strong performance on fees in general. First on the management fees as a percent of AUM has come down a little bit. Just given the changing mix a little bit, do you expect any further pressure on that? How do you think about the mix and how that will impact sort of the management fees as a percent of the fee earning AUM? And then also, you had a good quarter on the other fees, I guess, M&A, other advisory fees. Anything there to highlight? How should we think about that going forward from here?
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Tito, this is Alex here. Thanks for your question. Thanks, of course, for participating in our call. No pressure on fees on a product-by-product basis. So I don't see any pressure on that side. Of course, our -- when our management fees over revenues are change is more related to mix than to pressure on a specific product, fees on a specific product or strategy.
As we did buy and incorporate Solis in the beginning of 2026, we were expecting to do it by the end of '26 in our projections and guidance together with WP, the GPMS extension in the U.S. plus the RBR, which is a real estate investment trust here in Brazil, these three acquisitions, they come in with a lower fee base. They have a lower FRE in that sense, but they also have a lower ROA. In the case -- and that actually then because of mix that pushes our ROA slightly down. But the 90%, 92%, that's what we're getting to, should not change. It's minor, minor changes, okay?
So I don't see, again, no pressure on fees on a product specific or strategy specific. Fees are as a percentage of net revenues are changing because of mix. We did introduce -- we did incorporate Solis and the other acquisitions that I mentioned in the beginning of the year. They have a lower ROA, and that's why fees have changed a little bit. But we don't see going forward any significant change. On the adviser -- M&A advisory fees, part of the Solis business, which is a CLO business here in Brazil, is a structuring advisory service that they do to their clients.
So when Solis is structuring a CLO for one of their clients, they charge a structuring fee or sometimes also a consulting fee. So this line, no other revenues that has advisory fees embedded. It's not M&A fees. It will come from these structuring/consulting fees that Solis charges that is now part of our business. It's part of their business model. They do originate these CLOs with several originators. They have around 100 originators. Of course, the 80/20 rule have around 20 originators that are significant for Solis. These 100 originators, they bring the opportunities to Solis in order to, of course, buy receivables, asset-backed receivables or structure a new CLO.
And when Solis has structured this new CLO, it charges the structure fees that I mentioned to you. So going forward, I think we have -- normally, we have other fees of around $1.5 million to $2.5 million. I think we're going to add to that moving forward another $2 million coming from the Solis structuring fees per quarter going forward. But it's parts of Solis business model, okay? So it's going to be a recurrent fee for us. I hope I answered your question.
Daer Labarta: Yes. No, very helpful, Alex. I guess -- so we should think of this new level of around $7 million is more recurring, particularly with the Solis business now going forward. And then also just with the incorporation of Solis and all the other businesses, right, the FRE margin was lower, it will be a little bit lower for the year, but should normalize maybe in the future years to the 58% to 60%. How are the margins and, I guess, these incentive fees? And was it also just mix impacting the margin or anything else? Like what's it going to take to get the margin back up to that 58% to 60% in future years?
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Yes. Yes, straight answer here. We see it coming back to the 58%, 60%. And I don't see any major issues there. It's just a timing issue. We did incorporate these two acquisitions in the beginning of '26 versus in our budget guidance for the end of '26, plus the point that these acquisitions came in before, so revenues and of course, fee-related earnings, et cetera. But these acquisitions, they were operating at a lower margin than us. We operate at a 58%, 60% FRE margin. They were operating at close to 30% FRE margin.
Very, very similar to the other acquisitions that we have already done, the GPMS business, the real estate investment trust in Brazil, et cetera, et cetera. So what we do after we integrate these businesses, we start managing all their costs, we gain, of course, synergies, scale also, of course, and driving the margins back to 58%, 60%. So it's just a timing issue. No, I don't see any blip on the way. You're going to probably see margins going up quarter-over-quarter as we reach the end of '26. But the overall yearly margin will be slightly down to the 58%, 60% because we incorporated this lower-margin business in the beginning of '26.
But you're going to see quarter-over-quarter the margins heading up to the 58%, 60%. So we go into 2027 already in a good pace -- in a good margin pace increase. And that's why our comfort levels in '27 will be in the 58% to 60% FRE margin arena. The incentive fees also that you mentioned is just mix. There's nothing that I would comment besides mix that sometimes you have an incentive fees that fund performs a little better in the second quarter versus another one in the third quarter. So there's very slight changes, $2 million to -- $1 million here or there from one quarter to the other versus $111 million total revenue.
So I'm talking about 1.5%, 2% changing from one quarter to the other because one strategy performed better in the second quarter, the other strategy performed a little better in the third quarter versus the benchmark. So -- and then we do accrue the fees that I mentioned. So nothing, nothing structural. It's just slight changes here or there because of what I just mentioned. So very -- no structural changes, very confident with a 58%, 60% margin -- FRE margin for us, timing issue for the acquisitions. Actually, we see the business very, very solid, to be honest, Tito.
As we diversify the business to other asset classes and other countries, extremely solid as we see our fundraising in a solid ground, $4.5 billion versus $7 billion, which is the guidance for the whole year. So if we do another quarter of $2.5 billion, we're basically there already to the $7 billion. And the fundraising come from diverse strategies, diverse asset classes, credit, infrastructure, real estate. So I think the business that we built, the diversification of product and countries. I was in Chile this week, came back last night, amazing upbeat there, the whole momentum in Chile is really, really, really positive.
We had our seminar with clients on Wednesday, 1,000 people showed up seating -- seating 1,000 people, another 1,000 people online, an amazing finance seminar that our Chilean partners actually put up every year. The Minister of Finance of Chile was present, Paulo Guedes, the ex-Minister of Finance of Brazil, the Vice Minister of Finance of Argentina, José Luis Daza. So great momentum for the country. I think we're going to see the same great momentum in Colombia, early signs that comes from the government change there to Abergardo and talking to the future government officials of the Abergardo government, strong momentum there as well, positivism coming from Colombia.
I think that the Colombia economy has greater challenges to tackle versus the Chilean ones, mainly the deficit, but also great, great momentum coming there. And we see the same in Peru. And we have these three countries, they're very important for us today and continue to perform very, very well, the funds, the strategies, the asset classes, the countries. So very solid business that we're managing here, and I think nothing really structural to report. Thank you, Tito.
Operator: And the next question will come from Ricardo Buchpiguel with BTG.
Ricardo Buchpiguel: Could you please comment to which regions and clients are the increased fundraising coming from? And are they mainly new clients? Or are they existing ones? And for my second question, could you comment on what we should expect in terms of Patria's M&A agenda for the next 12 months? Following the acceleration on deal closing during the first half of the year, we saw also an increase in the transaction costs. So should we expect this cost to decline? And if so, to what levels?
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Thanks, Ricardo, and thank you for participating in the call. Thanks for the question again. On the fundraising side, I think we see the three asset classes, credit, infrastructure, GPMS performing the best of the five that we have -- of the six that we have, sorry. So credit, looking at the numbers there, again, solid performance that drives solid fundraising. We are very, very positive on where we -- what we can achieve there. We are on the road to raise our private credit LatAm, dollar-denominated Fund II. And I think it's going to surprise us on the upside.
On the infra side, again, very, very solid fundraising on the road fundraising dollar-denominated LatAm pan-regional core -- funding Infra Core. Again, very strong momentum there. GPMS as well, we closed SOF V at around $700 million. The cover was $500 million. So 40% up versus the cover. And now the latest fund that was raised through the Aberdeen franchise was around $500 million there. So we're, under our leadership fund, the secondary opportunities Fund V within the GPMS asset class, raising 40% over or more than the cover. So again -- and the other three asset classes, real estate, public and private equity is also performing, as you can see there, reasonably well in fundraising.
In the case of public equities, the returns of our funds, mainly the Chilean ones are really, really, really solid. And I mentioned about Chile a couple of minutes ago, how bullish I am with Chile for the next 2 to 4 years and even after that. We see that in real estate, I think second quarter, I think you're going to see strong fundraising momentum, mainly coming from exchanging shares to quotas of our Brazilian real estate investment trusts, a lot of interest from investors to do that.
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And finally, private equity, I think we have -- we raised money for a big deal, which is a health care deal that we did acquire in Colombia and Chile through an investment through our Private Equity Fund VII and a co-investment vehicle with several investors there. A lot of re-ups in the case of GPMS secondary opportunities Fund V around 35%, 40% of re-ups, and that's more or less has been in general, 1/3 to 1/2 of our fundraising comes from re-ups. But as we are increasing fundraising significantly, right, we raised $7.7 billion last year. The guidance is $7 billion this year. We already raised $4.5 billion.
If you go 5 years back in 2021 when we IPO-ed, we were raising $2 billion to $3 billion. So we increased significantly our fundraising. So of course, we need re-ups, but also we need new clients. And new clients coming from different regions. I think mainly Asia, we -- the top performing region and LatAm, second top performing region for us. Asia more on the SMA side, big tickets, SMAs. LatAm clients more on the day-to-day investing in our credit strategies, public equity strategies. And we're back fundraising in North America. I have mentioned for so many quarters here that we have been underperforming in North America. Underperforming fundraising in private equity.
I mentioned this quarter after quarter after quarter. And now we see some light at the end of the tunnel there in North America. We raised a significant amount of money for secondaries opportunity Fund V. Of course, what is kind of obvious, of course, you need to have the right product to sell to the clients. Clients don't buy what you want to sell, clients buy what they want to buy, right, not what you want to sell.
So I think we have now -- we're starting to have now a menu of products that is guided to the North American clients, North American clients willing to get exposed to mid-market private equity in Europe and globally, and we have the best performing team and assets and strategies there to offer. They are looking again into infrastructure LatAm, dollar-denominated. So our infrastructure, pan-regional LatAm dollar-denominated core is doing very well in that sense. They're also looking for private credit, dollar-denominated LatAm, great inlays in North America with that private credit pan-regional LatAm, dollar-denominated Fund II, with North American clients. So we see North America back.
And I think that's -- hopefully, that's going to be the beginning of us trending up to start raising more money in North America. So again, I couldn't ask for the commercial team to do a better job, raising $4.5 billion out of the $7 billion annual guidance. If we do, as I mentioned, to achieve to another $2.5 billion fundraising quarter, we basically beat the guidance in the third quarter. We still have a whole full quarter to go, which would be the upside of the fundraising. So that's why we mentioned that we are confident that we're going to beat the record fundraising year, which was 2025 when we raised $7.7 billion.
On the M&A side, I think we're going to be very selective, Ricardo. We have already, I think, acquired the asset classes that we wanted to go into expand. We were basically a private equity infrastructure company at our IPO. We expanded with the Moneda Association into credit, big time, public equities and then through acquisitions, mostly of real estate investment trust in Brazil and Colombia. We expanded in the real estate side and then the GPMS business in Europe. So the asset -- all the asset classes that we want to have, we're already there.
Now we are now looking into specific strategies, sub-strategies within the asset class, but it's a lot more selective and represents so much less of our future growth. We see future growth coming mostly from organic, as we have explained here and less so from acquisitions. So I think you will see acquisitions going forward represent a much lesser part of our growth strategy as we have already established ourselves, as I mentioned, the countries that we want to get exposed to, the asset class that we want to get exposed to. I think the last baton here in Latin America for us is Mexico.
We did buy a small real estate investment trust in Mexico earlier this year, FIBRA as they call them there, as you know. But I think also in Mexico will be more acqui-hires, which is acquisition of teams and cautiously expanding into the Mexican arena versus a large Mexican market versus a large acquisition. We don't even see a large acquisition available actually to be done in Mexico. So very selective M&A going forward.
Most of our growth coming from organic, already well established in the asset classes that we wanted to go into at the IPO, very solid fundraising from the credit infrastructure GPMS mainly coming from different regions, Asia and LatAm being the two most important and absolute value, but very positive that North America is back as it was 5 years for us ago was one of the most important fundraising regions for us. And with the right products, we're back fundraising in North America in a significant way. Thank you very much, Ricardo. I hope I answered your question.
Ricardo Buchpiguel: That's super clear and very helpful. Just one follow-up. Like I understand that most of the M&A agenda is behind us and we should see some deceleration. So in terms of the timing for the line of transaction costs going down, if you could clarify what you could expect here, please?
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Yes. I think -- yes, I think I'll turn it over to Denadai, Raphael Denadai, our CFO, to comment. But the answer is yes. As we go on and just pursue selective M&As in a smaller scale, the transaction costs should actually come down. But Raphael?
Raphael Denadai: Yes. Okay. The transaction and restructuring costs were around $11 million in the second quarter of 2026. And of course, assuming no incremental M&A, we expect a small decline in 2026 with the third quarter and the fourth quarter running around $7 million to $8 million per quarter, followed by a significant decline in 2027 and beyond.
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Yes. So again, it's a result, Ricardo, of us actually having done the big M&A that we wanted to do, now being more selective in M&A, this line -- this expense line just comes down during '26 being a very thin line and subdued line in '27.
Operator: And the next question will come from Guilherme Grespan with JPMorgan.
Guilherme Grespan: Congrats on fundraising. Pretty solid. Most of my questions were answered. Just a quick one, maybe even to Raphael here on the balance sheet. It caught my attention to the shareholders' equity. It declined $40 million this quarter. It was $600 million last quarter, this quarter, $560 million. And doing a very rough math here, what I was struggling is net income was $10 million. You paid out as dividends $25 million roughly, right? So it was supposed to go down in this math only $15 million, but it went down $40 million. So there is something else that is $25 million there against equity. I just want to understand what exactly is in this point.
I would imagine FX is something that sometimes goes against equity. But this quarter, I don't recall having a lot of FX movement. So I just want to understand if there's anything else on the OCI here on the equity book.
Raphael Denadai: Yes. Thank you for your question. Yes, there is another reason, okay? And it's in other reserves. So other reserves is impacted by the accounting recognition of gross obligations related to put options over minority interest in certain subsidiaries. So following the closing of Solis in January, the company recognized for the first time the gross obligation associated with the potential future acquisition of the remaining 49% minority interest. So this is the explanation for the additional impact.
Operator: And the next question will come from Nicolas Vaysselier with BNP.
Nicolas Vaysselier: Three questions from my side. The first one, I just wanted to check this multi-asset line in disclosing the fundraising bridge, which I understand is SMAs. I want to know if you can give more color on the fee margin, the management fee margin on this line. Then my second question is on the other income in the fee-related revenues line. I do understand the point on the Solis structuring fees, yet if I'm correct, they represented only around $0.5 million this quarter. So that doesn't really get us to the quarter-on-quarter increase to $7 million that we've seen. So I wanted to know a bit more what goes into this line.
And then finally, if I look at the accrued carry pool across your funds, it's been going down this quarter, mostly due to private equity Fund VI. And I understand from your statement, it's mostly related to negative mark-to-market movements over the quarter. So I wanted to understand if this changes your view on the PRA guidance for the year 2026 and 2027.
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Okay. Thank you very much, Nicolas. Thanks for the questions and participating here in our call. SMA margins, 1% and 10%, 1% management fees, 10% performance on average. We have some of the SMAs with 1% and 15%, 1% management fees and 15% performance fees. That has been the case for the last 20 years, 25 years. Normally, the funds that we raise, the drawdown funds natures funds are 1.5% to 2% management fees and performance fees 15% to 20%. Infrastructure funds being closer to the 1.5% and 15%, private equity funds close to 2% with 20% performance fees. And the SMAs or co-investments where we charge in general, has been 1% management fees and 10% performance fees.
So this is -- and it has been the case for the last 20 years, 25 years, it hasn't really changed much. Just to be clear, sometimes we do give co-investment rights, no fee no carry in our infrastructure drawdown funds and private equity drawdown funds, it has to do with the big size tickets of the big clients that come into the fund. On the Solis structuring fees, when Solis raises $500 million, it's not really correlated with the structuring fees because sometimes we get the structuring fees, and we're going to raise money for that specific fund that we structure over the next quarters, not the past quarters.
So one thing I think it's difficult to relate one with the other, correlate one with the other. So for example, if we do -- if Solis does raise $500 million, the structuring fees of these funds were probably 3, 4 quarters ago because then we structure and then we go out to fundraise, we charge the structuring fees and then we go out to fundraise and the fundraising is 2 to 4 quarters later than the structuring itself, the quarter that we did structure a specific CLO. So Solis charges structuring fees in most of the CLOs that they structure.
Sometimes they charge also consulting fees, as I mentioned, which is more or less the same idea of consulting a client on how to structure a CLO or structuring fee. It's more or less the same. As mentioned during my answer to Tito's question, we should see another $2 million per quarter on average of structuring fees going forward. Private Equity VI markdown was one specific company that we really marked down. And again, I think the whole private equity universe have the issues today about how do you value a company, a private company, should you compare directly with public peers, but our company is not public, it's private blah, blah, blah.
But we decided to, again, be -- try, we always try to be as conservative as possible in our valuation, show exactly, again, what is the value of the company over the next -- the last 10 exits, 7 of them were at mark, one was 5% off mark and then two of them were close to more than 5% of the mark. So 80% of the cases, we sell companies at mark or 5% above or below the mark, 80% of the cases. And this was the case of the last 10 exits, which was the case if I go back 10, 15, 20 years ago, that's more or less the case.
So for private equity Fund VI, there was a markdown of one specific company that we felt that was not -- we felt that we saw that was not performing as planned. Going forward, private equity companies that are also in Fund V, Fund VI and Fund VII, we have two health care companies -- three health care companies in Fund V. We see two of them performing at very well and aligned with our expectations and the companies in Fund VI and Fund VII as well performing aligned with our expectations. They don't carry any leverage. We deleverage these companies. They are cash flow generators.
So they have, I think, the right capital structure for this moment of Brazil, which is a moment of very, very high interest rates in Brazil, very high interest rates in Brazil. And we, again, preparing ourselves for the next 4 years mandate or the next President, which will have to -- at least in Brazil, have to tackle the inflation, the high interest rate. So we're coming in -- getting out of '26 coming into 2027 with all these private equity companies completely deleveraged with a very, very solid capital structure to be able to face a high interest rate environment that we are already facing.
So we are not changing the FRE guidance because of any of the private equity markdowns. We have -- Private Equity Fund IV and Fund V have not been contributing to net unrealized performance fees since the end of '25. Private Equity Fund IV has not been contributing to net unrealized performance fees since '23, '24. We did not incorporate in our guidance or budget that we were going to raise significant amount of monies from the private equity side. Our high-growth private equity funds are doing very well. The growth fund is doing extremely well, and we should be in the market raising for that fund sometime late this year or early next year.
Our venture funds are doing very well. We are top quartile DPIs. So actually, our growth fund is a top quartile fund. We have in the investment performance page there. It's a top quartile fund. Our venture capital funds are second quartile or top quartile. As far as DPI is concerned, our venture funds are top quartile with 1 or -- times or over DPI for venture funds in LatAm is extremely, extremely, extremely solid performance. So I don't see anything different there than we foresee very, very good future years for venture and growth, which we call the high-growth areas.
We were not and we are not -- we were not and we are not projecting fundraising on the private equity side in a significant manner over the next years, more the SMAs because we still having to invest private equity Fund VII, so before actually raising or thinking about raising private equity Fund VIII. And Private Equity Fund VII has a significant amount of dry powder. I think there's another 2 to 3 deals that we should do there of $100 million tickets per deal for Private Equity Fund VII, plus, I think raising co-investments in SMAs to co-invest with Private Equity Fund VII.
So there's still a lot of work to do to finish investing in Private Equity Fund VII, even thinking before Private Equity Fund VIII. And again, no changes in our FRE guidance for '26 or '27 because of the private equity marks. Thank you. I hope I answered your questions, Nicolas.
Operator: And the next question is going to come from William Barranjard with Itaú BBA.
William Buonsanti Barranjard: I have a couple here on my side. First, about the multi-asset SMA you disclosed this quarter. Just wondering how should we estimate when it becomes the fee AUM, right, for now it's considered pending? And regard to it, what is the expected management fee charge there, if it's below or above the blended of 0.86% we see here? Also regarding multi-asset, this new segment, how do you see the pipeline here? Do you have any new fundraisings coming to this new line soon? What kind of fundraising, what kind of SMAs there?
And a second one, maybe it's a long shot, but regarding the redemptions on credit, I saw that this quarter amounted to almost half of the redemptions we saw through the last 12 months. So I was wondering if this is maybe related to Brazil because we saw some sizable outflows during the second quarter. And now in July, we've seen some net inflows increasing again on fixed income funds here in Brazil. So if we should -- if this is correlated, we should expect maybe improvements on net intakes in this credit front.
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Thank you, William. Thanks for your questions. And again, thanks for participating here in the call. The multi-asset SMA, it is really positive news. I think it's shows our relationship with clients of us actually having the prerogative to invest in several different asset classes. So clients looking to LatAm alternative assets saying, look, Patria is my service provider, my trusted partner, and I would like to allocate to asset Class A, B and C, and let's work together into a multi-asset mandate.
So extremely positive in that sense because it really shows that we have been able to develop a trust -- a partner of choice relationship with this specific client in several different asset classes, in our four asset classes, to be honest. And these are chunky in nature, of course, because the clients that are able to do that and make sense economically for us are $1 billion, $1 billion plus. We do, of course, work with significant large sizable SMAs in our GPMS business, mostly for English pension schemes, U.K. pension schemes. This specific client is Asian, it's not European, but extremely, extremely interesting. Which asset classes we're going to deploy?
It's hard to say, but I would say that it would be mostly infrastructure and credit from -- because of the opportunities and the risk profile of this client and the dollar-denominated view on the revenue side of the specific asset class that they require, probably deploy this over the next 4 to 6 quarters, becoming then, of course, fee earnings AUM. Also, I think on the -- your question on the redemption of the credit fund, around $100 million of the redemption of the credit fund actually was a client that redeemed from one fund and invested in another fund of ours.
So it was -- so technically, it is a redemption, but then it actually -- he wanted to change from one strategy, one of our credit strategies to another one of our credit strategies. So $100 million were redeemed from one fund and that same $100 million was invested in another fund within our credit menu of products. So it's absolutely normal. It's positive. They wanted to change the fund that they were invested in. So nothing actually structural, nothing to do with higher delinquencies or higher or issues here or issue there is absolutely 0 structural issues whatsoever. Sometimes clients do that, which is absolutely fine.
Within their global credit allocation, they change the fund that they're exposed to in LatAm and with us, whatever. So completely, completely normal. We -- in our credit funds, I think we -- our portfolios are very, very healthy, our private credit fund and of course, the public as well, but whatever, very healthy portfolios. Our credit -- private credit Fund I dollar-denominated and pan-regional LatAm is performing extremely well. It's really beating our expectations. You can see there from our investment performance pages. We're expecting a 10% to 12% net IRR. The fund is posting 16% net IRR in U.S. dollars.
And that actually -- that performance gave us the whole -- very good track record for us to go back to the road and raise private credit and regional dollar-denominated Fund II. And I think that fund is going to be very sizable, a multiple of the first fund, which was close to $200 million. So very positive on the credit side. I don't see anything structural on the quality of our securities in the funds. On the contrary, funds performing very well. And I think this asset class will continue to be a major fundraising asset class for us in the near future. I hope I answered your questions, William.
Operator: And I'm showing no more questions in the queue at this time. I will now turn the call back over to Alex for closing remarks.
Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh: Well, thank you very much for participating. I know it's a very busy agenda for everyone and a lot of our peers reporting earnings. I can see that the whole industry is more upbeat than it was a couple of quarters ago from the earnings of peers that already came out.
On our side, very solid performance, fundraising, FRE, FRE per share, DED per share, most of the metrics, very positive that we're going to continue to hit and deliver our guidance for 2026 that you guys know by now and beating on the fundraising side, delivering the FRE that we mentioned, $225 million to $245 million for '26, positioning us in a very good position to also deliver our '27 guidance. So very confident here, confident Solis business performing very well. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for participating. I hope to see you in person soon, and have a great Friday and a great weekend. Goodbye.
Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating, and you may now disconnect.
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