Partners Group Insiders Spent $60 Million Buying Stock. The Market Still Isn’t Convinced.
Published on 07/22/2026 at 22:11 | Redaktion boerse-global.de
The disconnect between Partners Group’s operational milestones and its stock price has rarely been starker. While the Swiss private-markets firm has closed a record infrastructure fund, secured fresh credit ratings, and clocked its best-ever fundraising half, its shares continue to languish near 52-week lows — a reflection of investor anxiety over fee pressure and redemption requests in its open-ended Evergreen funds.
At €723.00, the stock sits just 5.27% above the 686.80 euro trough it touched on June 26. The year-to-date decline stands at roughly 31.8%, and the equity is now trading 40.26% below the 1,213.50 euro peak it reached on August 8, 2025.
Record Fundraising, But a Fee Warning
On July 15, Partners Group reported first-half capital commitments of $16 billion — a company record. Total assets under management rose to $186 billion as of June 30, up from $174 billion a year earlier. Management reaffirmed its full-year 2026 gross fundraising guidance of $26 billion to $32 billion.
Yet the market focused on the negatives. The firm disclosed $3.8 billion in outflows from its open-ended Evergreen funds and warned that performance fees would likely fall below 20% of total revenue in the first half. Management also flagged that redemption requests from the Evergreen structures would trim AuM growth by one to two percentage points over the next 18 months.
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That cautionary outlook helps explain why the stock has shrugged off the fundraising milestone. It also prompted insiders to act: since early June, management and board members have bought their own shares for more than 60 million Swiss francs, a vote of confidence that has done little to arrest the slide.
Short-Seller Attack and Legal Response
The selling pressure intensified after Grizzly Research, a short-seller, accused Partners Group of overvaluing its Evergreen funds. The firm responded on July 13 by announcing it would take legal action against the allegations. No specific lawsuits have been filed yet.
Infrastructure and Royalties: The Bright Spots
Away from the Evergreen drama, the firm has been executing at a brisk pace. On July 20, Partners Group closed its fourth direct infrastructure program with capital commitments exceeding $15 billion — roughly 50% larger than its predecessor fund. Just days earlier, the company revealed that its royalties strategy, launched in 2024 and encompassing assets such as “South Park” licensing rights and music catalogs from The Weeknd, had grown its AuM by 50% in the first half to $1.5 billion.
In early July, the group also invested ÂŁ260 million on behalf of clients in a UK rail-vehicle leasing platform. Separately, it acquired a global commercial aircraft leasing portfolio from Avenue Capital Group.
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Rating Agency Validation
The credit picture has improved as well. S&P Global Ratings recently assigned preliminary ratings to the “Partners Group Private Credit CLO 1A/1B” securitization, managed by the firm’s U.S. subsidiary. That follows an “A3” rating with a stable outlook from Moody’s in March 2026 and a reaffirmed “A-” from Fitch — both underscoring the group’s solid credit profile.
What’s Next
All eyes are now on September 1, 2026, when Partners Group is scheduled to publish its full half-year report. That document will reveal whether the drag from lower performance fees and Evergreen redemptions can be offset by the steady growth in assets under management and the momentum in infrastructure and royalties. Until then, the stock remains caught between record operational results and persistent market skepticism.
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