Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tikehau Capital Half Year 2021 Results Conference Call. Today, I am pleased to present Mathieu Chabran, Co-Founder, and Henri Marcoux, Deputy CEO. Gentlemen, the floor is yours.
Thank you, Dan. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for attending today's call. I'm Mathieu Chabran, Co-Founder of Tikehau, and I'm dialing today from New York. Joining me for this earnings call will be Henri Marcoux, Deputy CEO of Tikehau, and Louis Igonet, Head of Investor Relations in Paris, and they're joined by Antoine Flamarion as well. I'd like to start the presentation on slide three with a quick snapshot of the key highlights from the first half of this year. Tikehau delivered a double-digit growth from top to bottom line over the period, demonstrating once again the relevance of our business model. H1 2021 was also marked by the acceleration of the deployment pace of our funds. We continued to play an active role of financing the real economy while remaining highly selective and disciplined in our investment approach.
Our positioning makes us a partner of choice, notably for European governments, to finance the economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 world. We will come back to that. One important milestone over the first month was the important and successful completion of the reorganization, or C corp moment, as I had the opportunity to call it upon announcement a few months ago, which has been strongly supported by our stakeholders. This reorganization increases the level of alignment of interest with all the stakeholders of the firm, which is, as you know, the core value of our DNA. We remain very focused on long-term growth, which will be supported by our robust and liquid equity base. This is a key differentiating asset in our peer universe, as you all know by now. Last but not least, we strongly believe that profitable growth cannot go without sustainable growth.
Over the first six months of the year, we further expanded our impact investing platform, launching new impact strategies across our asset classes, more specifically in Private Debt and fixed income. We will keep launching strategies that support and accelerate sustainable business models and the decarbonization of economies as we have committed to. Moving on to slide four. You can see here the main KPIs and highlights for H1 2021. As you may have seen in our AUM release in July, the net new money over the last 12 months reached a record high of EUR 5.5 billion, of which EUR 2.4 billion raised during H1 2021. This is twice the level of H1 2020 fundraising. Our closed-end funds deployed EUR 1.9 billion over the period. Again, this is more than twice the level investing during H1 2020.
Now, importantly, the average management fee rate, which measures the quality of our revenue generation, continued to increase, reaching 104 basis points or 1.04% as of June 30th, reflecting the favorable evolution of our business mix. This is up from 94 basis points at the end of 2020 and 75 basis points at the time of the IPO in 2017. We demonstrated our ability to maintain a profitable growth trend with fee-related earnings, the FRE, increasing 62% year-over-year, reaching EUR 44.5 million at the end of June 2021. This represents a 36.7% FRE margin. As for our portfolio, performance was very solid over the period with realized portfolio revenue up 19% compared to last year. As a consequence, our net results at the end of June reached EUR 176 million.
We will keep deploying selectively, expanding our asset management platform and launching new initiatives over the second half of the year. For year-end, our target to reach at least EUR 33 billion of assets under management. Moving on now to page six, a quick reminder of our four priorities driving our strategy. Scale up and grow our existing and flagship funds. Expand our offering with the launch of new strategy. Develop and grow the past acquisitions which have been successfully integrated into our asset management platform. Last but not least, keep internationalizing and diversifying our client base. We have been delivering on each of them over the first half of 2021. Moving on to slide seven now. We detail here the main moving parts driving the strong AUM growth we have been posting over the last 12 months.
Our asset management AUM grew by 22.5% over the first half of the year, reaching EUR 29.4 billion as of June 2021. AUM growth was clearly led by the EUR 5.5 billion net new money raised over 12 months. This is a record high for Tikehau, I would like to stress here our business development team restless commitment in achieving these results despite historical headwinds. Congratulations to all of them. This achievement reflects the strong performance of Tikehau Capital strategies and the continued interest of investors in our asset class. Taking into account EUR 1.5 billion of direct investment, Tikehau AUM reached EUR 31 billion, representing over 20% growth year-on-year. Digging a little bit more now on net new money on page eight, which is a critical KPI for the group.
Out of the EUR 5.5 billion of net new money added over the last 12 months, EUR 2.4 billion came in the first half of 2021, which is twice what we had raised during the first half of 2020. Things are accelerating. More specifically, the second quarter of 2021 was an outstanding quarter, during which we raised EUR 1.9 billion, a quarterly record for the group. All asset classes contributed to this performance. Private Debt was the leading contributor of fundraising in H1, representing close to 40% of net new money. Our direct lending flagship fund, TDL V, is currently under fundraising mode and reached over EUR 1 billion in AUM at the end of June. Fundraising for new strategies such as impact lending or secondaries are developing in line with our expectations. Real Assets now. Real Assets fundraising was driven by a pickup in fundraising at Sofidy.
AUM for Sofidy, which is actually EUR 7 billion at the end of June. We also acquired a residential portfolio in Iberia through a dedicated co-investment vehicle. In private equity, we successfully closed our flagship energy transition fund, T2, which exceeded our expectation. We also closed, and here again be on target, the second vintage of our Special Opportunities Fund earlier this year. Of note, we also held the first closing for the Spain-focused aerospace and defense fund. I'll come back to that. Finally, our Capital Markets Strategies benefited also from very positive demand from clients driven by the fixed income strategies, in particular, the Tikehau Short Duration fund, which has exceeded EUR 2 billion AUM mark.
Following this strong H1, I would like to step back for a minute and look at where we stand and see how our asset management platform has expanded since the company got public in 2017, and I'm now on slide nine. We had around 10 verticals across our asset classes when we listed, and we have already added 14 new strategies during the past four years. We have started with a solid base of European strategies and quickly expanded both geographically and across asset classes. That has been done either organically or through targeted M&A. In both cases, having a strong balance sheet is a key enabler of growth. We can sponsor the launch of new strategies organically, while at the same time keep looking for accretive addition to our platform.
If I may, I would add that no wonder why so many peers are now looking at the IPO market in Europe to secure evergreen capital. We actually welcome this new set of benchmark. Finally, we still have plans to add new promising verticals to the platform like, for example, US CLOs, which will be launched by the end of 2021 here in New York, or a private equity fund dedicated to energy transition in the U.S. to expand what we have successfully achieved with our European T2 fund. Let's focus a minute now on Private Debt secondary, page 10, to illustrate what I just mentioned about organic growth. This vertical within the Private Debt space is one of the most recent organic additions to our asset management platform. Why did we decide to launch this strategy? First, we see the market potential.
Look at what happened in private equity. Following many years of strong growth in the primary market, there has been a solid ramp-up of an increasingly active and structured secondary market. Why is that? LPs are more and more actively managing their portfolios and want to be able to reallocate and find liquidity for their investments. We see that happening in private debt as well. It is a more nascent market than it is in private equity because the primary market for that asset class has grown more recently. We are anticipating that the trend we have seen in private equity secondary should find an echo in the private credit space in the years to come. Given the relative immaturity of the secondary private debt market, we can now benefit from attractive pricing conditions and build a strong track record.
To be clear, it is not an opportunistic move. It is a structural opportunity. Second, we have strong sourcing capacity. We have built a team based here in New York in place since the end of 2019 and actively sourcing and deploying capital. The team is made up of both long-term Tikehau colleagues and also dedicated new hires. 44% of the opportunities sourced to date have been originating on a proprietary basis. As always, this new strategy is strongly supported by the Tikehau Capital platform. We have built a strong track record in the Private Debt segment. We have been a pioneer in the space in Europe, so we are definitely leveraging our strong and long-lasting experience within this credit space. But we have also been using our balance sheet to sponsor this first-time strategy because we are obsessed with this alignment of interest.
Tikehau Capital committed $200 million in the fund, which allowed the team to talk to LPs with investment already done and more in the pipeline. This is how we work to accelerate growth. In terms of return, this strategy is targeting a 15% gross IRR, and the first months of activity are very encouraging in that respect, with a gross multiple to date standing above 1.3x or a 30% performance. Quick snapshot now on slide 11 on how our client base is evolving. First, and I already touched base on that, our client base is increasingly global. The AUM coming from international clients have exceeded the EUR 10 billion mark at the end of June 2021.
Just as a comparison, EUR 10 billion was actually the total AUM for the whole company at the time of the IPO. Back then, international AUM stood just above EUR 2 billion, meaning that we have grown fivefold international AUM in the meantime. In terms of flows, more than half of the money raised in H1 2021 came from international investors. That excludes Sofidy, given the very specific nature of their investment product, which is very much focused on French retail investors. Our expansion strategy is paying off. Looking at how our AUM are split by client category, retail investors are precisely contributing more and more to our AUM. Our client base remains very institutional, we have been actively launching new strategies dedicated to private clients. This client base is actually increasingly looking to allocate capital to alternative asset classes.
We've been designing tailor-made products across asset classes and geographies in France, in Italy, in Spain. We want to keep finding ways to address the need of that promising category of investors. Moving on to deployment now, page 12. 2021 is set to be a solid year in terms of investments from our closed-end funds. In H1, they have deployed a total of EUR 1.9 billion, which as I said, is twice the amount deployed during the same period one year ago. To be fair, one year ago was obviously very atypical given circumstances. Still shows a continued increase since 2017. Private Debt has led deployment during H1, in particular within our direct lending business, where we are seeing a very attractive deal flow.
Let me highlight that this is actually very positive for our revenue generation, since we are mainly charging fees on invested capital for this strategy, and we will get back to that in a minute. We have been very active in deployment while maintaining a strong focus on ESG, as well as high level of selectivity and discipline across the board. This is evidenced by an average selectivity rate across our businesses of 98%. Even if year after year, and we are looking at more and more investment opportunities, this selectivity rate has remained very high over these years. The second half of the year remains very dynamic in terms of deployment for our funds, with a healthy pipeline ahead.
Last but not least, the level of dry powder at the end of June stands at EUR 6.4 billion, very close to the EUR 6.2 billion we had at the end of December, showing that we have been able to accelerate both the fundraising and the investment base. Turning to the next slide, page 13, we wanted to pause on a significant milestone for Tikehau. As we just discussed, we are actively deploying capital across asset classes, especially in the mid-market space. Our job is to provide financing to corporates through debt or equity. That puts us in a critical position in the post-COVID context, and this key positioning has been increasingly recognized by European governments. Many in Europe have entrusted Tikehau Capital with the management of several recovery funds.
We won the management of the French Aerospace Recovery Fund a bit more than one year ago, thanks to the amazing job from the teams at Ace Capital Partners. On the back of that milestone, we have now been selected by the Spanish government to manage a comparable private equity fund, thanks to a very legitimate and growing presence in Spain. More recently, last week, we have been appointed by the Belgian Federal Government to manage the Belgian Recovery Fund, which will grant subordinated and convertible loans to companies active in Belgium and affected by the COVID pandemic. This is once again an outstanding result from our Brussels team, who has led the foundation of a very strong presence locally.
This recent success is added to the other state-led financing program that we are managing in France, which started in 2013 with the NOVO and NOVI programs in the corporate lending space. All of that to summarize, demonstrate that thanks to our expertise, our platform, and our track record, we are the partner of choice for European governments in providing financing to the real economy and support the post-COVID recovery. We wanted to provide you with more color on how our funds are performing through these selected funds across our strategy, and I'm now on page 14. This is an important point. We are building a strong track record of performance across asset classes and verticals, which not only bodes well for future fundraising, but also generates growing returns for our balance sheet.
As an example, the performance of the vintages three and four of our flagship direct lending strategy is supporting the current fundraising for TDL V with gross IRRs on exited transaction that stand above 10%. Our special opportunities fund, TSO II, which has finalized its fundraising earlier this year above initial target, has been performing very well as well. In Private Equity, we post a solid multiple for TGES, our secondary fund, in which we have contributed assets from our balance sheet. Finally, as you can see also that Star One, our infrastructure program, is on track to deliver solid returns, which would support the last mile of the fundraising for Fund Two. It is important that we communicate more on these topics because once again, performance is critical for both future fundraising and Tikehau portfolio performance. Today's performance is definitely tomorrow's fundraising.
Turning now into more detail to our investment portfolios, and I'm on page 15. As you know, our strong equity base is a key differentiator, which we use to invest across our strategies. Our alignment of interest is unique. Management is the number one shareholder of Tikehau, and Tikehau invests its equity in priority in its own funds. At the end of the day, management, shareholders, and LPs are fully aligned, which is a unique feature in our industry. As such, during the course of the first half, Tikehau has committed more than EUR 200 million in its asset management strategies alongside its clients. At the end of June, 64% of our portfolio is invested in our own funds, which represents EUR 1.8 billion of invested capital.
To that amount, we have committed an extra EUR 1 billion, which has not yet been called by the fund, and that will be the case as they deploy the capital. The total commitments that Tikehau's balance sheet has made in its own funds amounts to EUR 2.8 billion at the end of June, which is very material. Now, let's be clear. We are very happy to invest in our funds. First, we trust our capacity to deliver performance and thus allow our shareholders to benefit from the returns from our asset classes. Second, we know that by aligning our interests with our clients, we are able to accelerate fundraising and grow our AUM at a faster pace than competitors. In a nutshell, why not benefiting from the compounding effect of the underlying performance of our strategies when we are running the factory ourselves?
We gave you the guidance to see our portfolio exposed at between 65% - 75% to our own funds in the midterm. We are definitely on track. We were above 65% at the end of December. Since then, as Henri Marcoux will show you, we have had solid positive mark-to-market effects on various parts of the portfolio. In any case, of course, we confirm the 65%- 75% guidance. Besides our fund investment, we have roughly EUR 1 billion invested in direct assets. Roughly half is invested in listed assets. The other half is invested in non-listed assets, which I'm going to detail now. Moving on to page 16, we thought it would make sense to provide you with more color on our unlisted investments on which we have never really put the spotlight.
Those are investments made by the balance sheet in unlisted assets, which are serving, one way or the other, our ecosystem as an asset manager and our opportunities of choice as a principal investor. You will have some legacy private equity assets from the day when Tikehau was not managing private equity fund. You can also find LP interest in other managers' funds, in asset classes or geographies to which we are not exposed through our asset management strategies. There are three main characteristics of this part of our portfolio I would like to highlight. First, it is very granular. We have 108 investment lines, of which 95 of less than EUR 10 million each. Second, it is well diversified and not massively overweighted in one single asset class, sector, or geography.
It is very complementary to our asset management platform, be in terms of investment types, industry, but also geographical exposure, with, for example, a strong contribution from U.S. and Asian assets when our asset management platform is, for the time being, strongly exposed to Europe. As a consequence, this portfolio benefits also from the various pace of recovery around the globe. Before I leave the floor to Henri, I would like to say a few words on how our ESG efforts have been recognized by external rating agencies, and I'm now on page 17. We know how difficult it can be for analysts and investors to grasp the ESG performance of a company. These ratings are definitely useful, and we are proud to have very favorable rankings. You can only assess what you measure. That's not what we really look at.
I mean, the path we are following in ESG is to launch and deploy strategies that actually make a big difference to contribute to a low-carbon economy. We now operate dedicated impact strategies across the majority of our asset classes. We discussed that. I already talked about the successful fundraising for T2, our private equity strategy-focused fund on energy transition. In private debt, I remind you that we are currently raising capital for our impact lending strategy, which aims to provide favorable financing conditions to companies that meet their sustainability goals and extra-financial criteria. In July 2021, we launched Tikehau Impact Credit, pioneering an impact approach in the high-yield universe. As I said earlier, we need more common standards in order to help our stakeholders, LPs, shareholders, partners, better understand where the asset management industry stands in terms of ESG integration and impact investing.
In that respect, the European Union has issued a set of rules which aim at making the sustainability profile of funds more comparable and better understood by an investor. This set of rules is known as the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, SFDR. I will not drown you into details here, but the bottom line is that the three funds I just mentioned earlier fall into the most demanding category within this regulation, and that our priority is to continue to launch strategies that support and accelerate sustainable businesses and the decarbonization of economies. Let me now hand over to Henri Marcoux to focus on our financials.
Thank you, Mathieu. Well, good evening, everyone. Thanks for attending this call. I will start maybe by page 19 and say a quick word on our fee-paying AUM, which is, as you know, a critical KPI to consider when looking at our capacity to generate revenue for our asset management business on the long term. Fee-paying AUM at end of June stand at EUR 24.4 billion, posting a solid 20% increase year-over-year. This growth was actually driven first by fundraising within Private Equity, Capital Markets Strategies, as well as Sofidy. In addition, as explained by Mathieu previously, we have been actively deploying capital for our Private Debt funds, for which management fees are charged on invested capital. These deployments have been incrementing our fee-paying AUM and reducing the future fee-paying AUM, which actually stood at EUR 3.6 billion at end June 2021, still up 33% year-on-year.
Those actually future fee-paying AUM represent more than EUR 30 million of potential additional management fees for the group that will actually come through our P&L in the coming years. As a consequence, we have quite a good visibility on our revenue and profit generation for the coming years. Turning now to the next slide, page 20, which shows how our management fee rate has been increasing over the past years. Well, I guess this graph is actually quite self-explanatory. The average management fee rate for the last 12 months ended in June 2021, stands at 104 basis points. We are actually exceeding the 100 basis points for the first time. As you can see, our average fee margin has improved steadily since IPO, and very sharply over the past two years, moving from 84 basis points to 104 basis points.
To understand maybe this improvement has been driven first by the rebalancing of our business mix towards Private Equity and Real Assets, which actually charge management fees above the current group average. It has also been driven by the ongoing fundraising momentum for our Sofidy funds, with the ongoing contribution from subscription fees that are generated in line with Sofidy fundraising. Maybe looking at the +5.3 points improvement of the fee margin versus June 2020, on top of the positive effect I just mentioned, which is structural, it does actually include the positive contribution from the late management fees linked to the strong fundraising of our Private Equity funds T2 over the last 12 months. This is actually standard in the Private Equity industry to have an increasing contribution from management fees as the fundraising period is actually advancing.
We are very happy with the way our management fee rate is actually progressing. Not only we are increasing the fee-paying nature of our AUM, but we are also compounding that with our capacity to improve the average fee margin, which translates very positively on our revenue generation. Precisely moving to page 21 and looking at our asset management review, you will see the results of the effects I just described. Over the last 12 months, management fees and other revenue have increased to a total of EUR 121 million, representing 99% of our asset management revenue. These are very qualitative revenues since the majority of our funds are closed funds and very sticky strategies with long duration, which provides us a high level of visibility going forward.
These revenue are not only qualitative, they are also growing at high double-digit rates, with an increase close to 40% over the last 12 months and a 60% evolution over the last two years, which is significantly material. The contribution of performance-related revenue, such as performance fees and carried interest, is still limited in our model, which is normal and expected, given first, the relative use of our funds, and second, the cautious approach we have to recognize carried interest in our financial statement. I will come back to that in a minute. To sum up, clearly, we are delivering high growth rate in highly qualitative revenues. Moving to the next slide, page 22, let's have a look at our fee-related earnings, a very important KPI for the group, which actually shows the increased scalability of our platform.
Our FRE has been growing by 62% year-on-year to reach EUR 44.5 million at end June 2021. This is actually more than twice the FRE we have generated in H1 two years ago. Our management fees are growing at close to 40% increase, and our FRE are growing at more than 60%. That actually shows the strength and the relevance of our operating model. On the right part of the slide, you see that FRE margin keeps progressing as well on the back of the revenue increase that exceeds operating cost evolution. For the last two years in a row, we have been able to increase our FRE margin by more than five basis points, which is a strong achievement. That FRE margin stood at 36.7% at end June 2021.
Going forward, we still have the capacity to increase our margin and to go beyond that level because our operating model is not yet at its full structural potential. More cyclically, of course, on some specific period, you might see us reinvest part of our profitability gains for future growth. Typically, H2 2021 could be one of these periods where we want to consolidate the platform to launch new business, such as the one Mathieu Chabran just described with US CLO, and to hire new talent. We have been generating huge profitability gain over the past years, and it is not over. Moving on to the next slide, page 23. Maybe a word that, on top of our operating leverage in fee-related earnings, performance fees and carried interest represent a key earnings generation engine for Tikehau Capital in the coming years.
AUM eligible to carried interest keeps growing at a high pace, reaching EUR 12.5 billion at end June 2021, showing a 39% increase year-on-year, therefore going faster than asset management AUM. That means that we are actually raising capital in priority in strategies eligible to carried interest, which is a strong revenue and profit engine, still marginal at this stage, very promising. On the total of AUM eligible to carried interest, we should mention that EUR 7.1 billion were already invested, EUR 3.9 billion have generated IRR above their hurdle rate, which is actually an increase of up 39% also versus June 2020. As I mentioned earlier, our revenue generation in asset management is today more geared towards management fees, given that our large funds are still young. We expect to start to generate more material performance-related revenues when our flagship fund will mature.
Keep in mind that we have a pretty cautious approach when it comes to recognizing performance fees. We only book them when we are certain that we are actually going to realize them. As such, we are not exposed, I would say, to any clawback risk or negative performance fee contribution to our P&L. Finally, I think we have already highlighted this before, but we have a shareholder-friendly approach in term of allocating carried and performance fees. 100% of our performance fees are allocated to the company, so to the shareholder, 53% of our carried interest are as well allocated to the listed company. Turning to next slide, page 24, which now relates to the performance of our investment portfolio over the first semester. Realized portfolio revenue amount to €78 million in H1 2021. They are up 19% year on year.
Within these revenues, I'd like to highlight that the contribution from Tikehau Capital funds in which the firm has invested continues to increase, amounting to EUR 40.6 million over the first half, and they are actually up 29% year-on-year. This actually further demonstrates the relevance of Tikehau Capital allocation policy and the solid performance of its asset management strategy, as previously explained and illustrated with the example that Mathieu has described. You can see that the realized portfolio revenue have been growing consistently over the past three years with a steadily increasing contribution from dividend, coupons, and distribution. Moving now to slide 25. On top of the realized portion of our revenue, we have also recorded significantly unrealized positive fair value changes across our investment portfolio during the first semester. They actually represent EUR 174 million over the first six months of the year.
Of course, H1 2020 provides an atypical comparison base given market condition in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unrealized positive fair value changes over H1 mainly relate to positive contribution from listed investment portfolio, of which EUR 93 million relates to Eurazeo. Unlisted investment and Tikehau Capital funds respectively contributed EUR 38 million and EUR 25 million to unrealized portfolio revenue over the first half of 2021. Here again, Tikehau Capital funds are contributing significantly positively also to the unrealized portfolio revenues. Maybe turning to the next page 26, and a quick word on the profit and loss items and the net profit for the group in H1, which actually stands at EUR 176 million. I remind you that the simplification we have announced on May 15th, 2021 has been finalized on July 15th, and it is actually retroactive to January 1st, 2021.
The H1 2021 figures that you can see actually on this slide are pro forma figures that include the impact of this reorganization simplification. All the details related to the impact of this process on our financial statement are actually available in the appendix of this presentation and of course, in our half-year financial report. I will not comment again the very positive KPI posted by our asset management activity and by the favorable portfolio revenue evolution. I would like maybe to highlight a few items. First, the EUR 27 million reduction of corporate expenses linked to the reorganization when comparing H1 2021 pro forma to H1 2020 figures published last year. Once again here, you can see the benefit of the simplification we have announced in May and finalized in July.
Second item maybe to be mentioned here, the EUR 10 million decrease in our cost of financing, which is actually the result of our active debt management policy. Finally, the net result group share that actually reached EUR 176 million in H1, showing a material improvement compared to H1 2020, which once again has been atypical in many ways. I will finish maybe by page 27 and providing you a few indicators on our balance sheet. Here you can see that our financial structure is still very robust. As such, our investment grade BBB- credit rating has been confirmed by Fitch in May 2021. Our model is supported by strong financial means with close to EUR 3 billion of equity, a high level of available cash, and EUR 700 million of undrawn credit facilities to date. Finally, maybe an additional comment.
Tikehau Capital wants actually its ESG strategy, which is already deployed at the heart of its operation, to be reflected in its financing. Consequently, following the issuance of our inaugural sustainable bond as well as the refinancing of our bank loan facility, we have now around 60% of our debt, which is linked to ESG criteria versus close to nil at end December 2020. We feel actually this is the right way to go in that direction. Well, I will now turn back the mic to Mathieu for concluding remarks. Thank you.
Thank you, Henri. Thanks for this overview. I will be brief. I'm page 29. Tikehau Capital has been firing on all cylinders during H1 2021. We are reaping the benefits of our unique and increasingly profitable growth model in the alternative space. We think our prospects are bright. We are positioned on a growing market and are well-positioned to capture that growth. We have many projects in the pipeline in terms of new strategies, especially to further expand our impact investing platform and scale up our various verticals. Our target for full year 2021 is to reach over EUR 33 billion of AUM at year-end. We are and remain on track to meet our targets to exceed EUR 35 billion of AUM and EUR 100 million of FRE at the end of 2022. That concludes today's presentation, and we are now happy to take your questions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are listening in on the phone and wish to call in a question, you can press star one on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. That's star one if you wish to ask a question. The first caller on the line is Tom Mills of Jefferies. Tom, when you are ready, your line's now open. Please go ahead with your question.
Good evening, guys. Thanks very much for the presentation. Just had a couple of questions, please. Firstly, just on the management fee margin that's come through very strongly, 104 basis points. Did you suggest that maybe part of that increase in the first half is driven by late management fees coming through from funds that you raised in prior periods, and you're getting the catch-up effect of that? I'm just trying to work out what the correct number to be using as we look forward into the second half and beyond ought to be, or is 104 basis points actually a good run rate?
Secondly, I think, Mathieu, you alluded to quite a few of your peers IPOing at the moment. Clearly, there are liquidity reasons for that, but also firms are looking to accelerate their growth. I guess that might mean that you're also having more conversations with potential targets.
I just wondered if there's anything that you could say around that because I guess other firms are looking to try and boost their growth as well. Finally, just on the finance costs. Those, as you just said, came through quite a lot lower than pre-prior period due to refinancings and things. Could you maybe give us a bit of guidance as to how you expect that number to look for the full year? Because I'm quite a bit above that on the run rate. That'd be really helpful. Thank you very much.
Sure. Thanks, Tom Mills, for this question. I might take the first two on and leave Henri Marcoux address the financing cost. On the management fee, yeah, you've got effectively a bit of both. Remember that if you take, let's say, gross number, we've got EUR 10 billion of Private Debt, EUR 10 billion of Real Assets, EUR 5 billion of Private Equity, EUR 5 billion of Capital Markets Strategies. That is the consequence of us rebalancing the business mix, let's say, since we went public four years ago, and that had been stated as a key objective and a key element of this strategy.
Effectively, you've got a little bit of a business mix, and you've got more high-margin businesses growing faster, and Private Equity is one of them. Obviously, we alluded to that at the end of last year, or sorry, at June 30th when we announced the AUM.
We've got all the funds in the working of the Special Opportunities, as well on the Real Assets. Effectively it's increasing the top line, the gross margin, the gross fee margin relative to maybe what was on the private credit or on the leveraged loan, the CLO, some lower margin. You've got a bit of that, and effectively also a catch-up effect because as you know, if you get late into as an investor or if you get late into a fundraising, you've got a catch-up mechanism whereby you have to pay back to make whole as if you had been invested earlier with some fee penalties. There is also another element that Henri Marcoux alluded to that our private credit or Private Debt, which the bulk of the funds we managed is charged on invested capital.
We've been investing significantly, you've got a catch-up effect also here. Is 104 a normative number you should take? I would not comment on that, but you can certainly sensitize the fact that we are committed in growing much higher margin businesses. As I said, we went public. At the time, 50% of our business was private credit, and the margin was 75 basis points. In a matter of four years, we managed to increase that by, let's say, 25 or 29 basis points. If you benchmark to some of our peers, there's certainly some room to grow. If I may say, which is not a question you asked, but that has obviously a net effect on your operating margin, because on all these strategies, you have to front-load your expenses. The more you raise, the higher your operating margin improves.
That's for one, and happy to follow up into more details with Louis after this call. Onto the target or the competitive landscape universe. Effectively, a lot of new IPOs. All of you guys have been busy with many of our peers taking their company public in Europe. As I said earlier, we welcome that. We think that the more data point we put on the map, the better it is for the industry. You'll see in the appendix, page 32 in the deck, we try to benchmark ourselves to what we think are the European peer universe to try to position on a relative basis our recent growth. On the M&A and target as you know, and we showed that over the past few years, we've been very selective in the acquisition.
As you said, ironically, valuation nowadays extremely high on the public market, but also the private market. You saw here in the U.S. the listing of let's say, I don't know, Blue Owl, for example, the merger between Owl Rock Capital Group and Dyal Capital Partners. Dyal Capital Partners is only doing a minority stake investment in private GP. You're reading through all their docs, and you can get a sense of the pricing here. You have some, on the one hand, people taking advantage of this high valuation. You know that we'll always be selective and disciplined in pricing. Having said that, we remain always alert to opportunities, particularly opportunities that would complement our product offering, our geographical presence, and our investors footprint. When you take all that into consideration, that you also had this discipline pricing element.
Last but not least, I should start with that, it's a people business, right? We're not just buying assets. We have to make sure that culturally there is a fit, and that sometimes is the biggest challenge. We are constantly effectively looking at opportunity, and you might see us in the short to medium term taking advantage of opportunity if we can tick all those boxes. Henri, maybe on the financing cost?
Yes, Mathieu, Tom, thanks for the question. The cost of debt on a yearly basis is roughly equal to EUR 30 million, which is actually on a half-year basis, close to EUR 15 million. We've been benefiting in H1 roughly from a bit more than EUR 5 million of positive impact from our swap into the cost of our debt. We are impacted by this positive effect, EUR 5 million positive effect. Once again, cost of debt on a yearly basis is close to EUR 30 million.
Thanks very much. That's really helpful though. Thanks.
The next caller on the line is Mandeep Jagpal from RBC Capital Markets. Mandeep, when you are ready, your line's now open. Please go ahead.
Hi, everyone. Thank you for the presentation and for taking my questions. Just two from me, please. Looking at slide nine, you presented an impressive range of impact investing funds across the various asset classes which are classified as Article 9. Please could you provide any further details of how many Article 8 strategies are offered at the moment, and what the plan is to launch or convert further strategies into Article 8 or 9 across the various verticals? I think it would be interesting to hear about what your clients are focusing on with respect to ESG and SFDR there. The second question is on AM margin. Good progression year-on-year, increasing by 5 percentage points. I notice it is down slightly on H2 last year, which I have at 41%, and that is despite an increase in revenues.
I was just interested to know what's driving the cost growth in asset management since H2. Is it just seasonality or is there something else? Thank you.
Thanks, Mandeep. I might start with the ESG. Here again, Henri will comment on the margin. Just to step back, you've been following us for quite some time, and you know that at Tikehau, you've been, I think, early on this strategy, way beyond we get into, rightly so, the big focus that we can see nowadays from asset managers. As much I can think of on the real estate, for example, we were maybe 10 years ago, in 2012, 2013, developing with some real estate developers partners, some green building HQE partners. We've been very active here. If you look at the few milestone or flagship funds, the private equity transition energy fund T2 is obviously a real milestone for 2021.
With the EUR 1 billion, we announced that we were expanding that into the U.S. here and announced some first commitment of $200 million to focus on this strategy. Likewise on the private credit, which sometimes is less of a focus. Again, here we've been very early. Be on the Tikehau Impact Lending, where we've introduced the concept of having some positive ratchet margins for borrowers reaching and delivering on some criteria goals, some extra financial goals. This is getting a lot of momentum with obviously investors, who are increasingly focusing on that, but also on borrowers. Interestingly enough, also we expanded into our Capital Markets Strategies by launching our Tikehau Impact Credit in July, which is investing in publicly traded securities, bonds, but also with this ESG focus.
Most of the recovery plan that we've been awarding and that I detailed you along, also obviously have a component of that. As much as I'm sure, let me step back, Mandeep. I think that when we talk next year on this call, this very concept will have disappeared because that will have to be incorporated in everything you do. Any stakeholders today, for an asset manager and even more so for a publicly traded asset manager like Tikehau, will expect that. That will be shareholders, investors, employees, or banks, anyone you're dealing with, that will be part of the to-do list, if I may say. That's where we are, and this SFDR Article 9 is critical. We've tried to be creative here to use that also to target new type of investors. We mentioned that briefly, going beyond the institutionals.
There is a huge demand from private investors, either family offices organized, but also retail investors to accept this market. We're really trying to stay ahead of the curve on those strategies. Henri, maybe on the margin.
Just maybe on the fee-related earnings margin. Well, having a look at 2020, obviously, what we said last year in the context of the COVID-19 crisis is that our H2 was standing at a very high level. H2 last year, we were at 38.4%. Here we are posting H1 at 36.7%. What we have said last year is that we had postpone a significant cost, and consequently this year we are reinvesting in the platform. Would that be opening on new offices, like Germany we opened during the first semester, or would that be in the launch of new strategy? We did mention T2 in North America. We did mention CLO. We are investing in the platform, and as such you should not see H2 at the level of H2 last year, definitely.
Great. Thanks, guys.
The next caller on the line is Arnaud Giblat of BNP Paribas Exane. Arnaud, when you are ready, your line's now open. Please go ahead.
Yeah, good evening. I've got three questions, please. Your performance in secondaries. Thanks for the disclosure. I'm wondering, 1.34x MOIC which happened very quickly, actually. Is this a case where you're buying at a substantial discount and then just marking up to previous valuation, or has there been other drivers behind that performance? That's my first question. Could you quantify for us the subscription fees at Sofidy in H1? What sort of contribution has that been to management fees, and is there any seasonality or any launches or anything to be aware of there? My final question is on your target. You say more than EUR 33 billion of AUM in 2021. You're targeting EUR 35 billion in 2022, implying just EUR 2 billion in 2022. At what point should we expect a revision of your 2022 targets? Thank you.
Thank you, Arnaud. I may start with the TPDS. Effectively, so that it's clear for everyone, I'm sure it is for you. This strategy, it's aiming at buying fund interest, LP interest. You're an insurance company, you're committed to a Private Debt manager. You invested 105 years ago. You've been clipping your coupon at, let's say, 8% to 10%. Because you are reallocating your portfolio and because it's private assets, you're looking at selling, at monetizing those private investment. As I said earlier on in the presentation, that's not dissimilar to what has happened in Private Equity. Effectively to your point, the fact that we are buying an underlying credit basket, private credit basket. You're buying a NAV. Let's say that the NAV is at, I don't know, EUR 0.98 a dollar on the fund. It becomes a negotiation between seller and buyer.
You would trade maybe, I don't know, at EUR 0.95 for the benefit of illustration. What we are marking at is we started investing early 2020. We started investing in very diversified. We've seen, to give you an example, the team is based here in New York. It's global, but the reality that 80% of the portfolio, of the pipeline, sorry, comes from the U.S., 20% from Europe. It's for a more liquid market here in the U.S. We've seen close to EUR 10 billion in opportunity. Not everything trades because the seller and the buyer would not agree on price, or we may have lost some transaction to some competitors. The mark we are then marking at, let's say that we bought at EUR 0.95 January 1st.
If the June 30th's NAV that the manager is reflecting is 100 or it's 90, we will mark it at the NAV that we are reflecting. Effectively, like you would do on the public market, where effectively you're buying a bond at a discount and you're effectively betting on the get to par type of pricing. Here you're still dependent on the NAV of the underlying manager. What you're seeing in this performance that we wanted to externalize because since it's a relatively new strategy, although we see a lot of competitors getting into that space, rightly so, and there is room for competition. We wanted to demonstrate that not only the opportunity is not purely based on, oh, there's been a COVID-19 sell-off. There's nothing to do with that. It's a structural play that we are entering into.
Some of our competitors may take that from a very top-down approach. We are taking very much bottom-up because our skill set at Tikehau is effectively to do private credit, and underwrite that. That's effectively the approach. You've got the coupon that you are getting on the portfolio and effectively the NAV evolution. Hopefully what we are hoping is that whenever we buy something at, let's say, EUR 0.90, obviously not only can get to EUR 1.00, but beyond, with the component of the carry, of the embedded carry of the portfolio. That's the TPDS strategy. Maybe, Henri, you want to comment on Sofidy?
Well, we are effectively disclosing the average revenue compared to our AUM. Having a look at our real assets revenue, they have moved from 96 basis points at end December to 105 basis points. Part of this increase is actually linked to the increase in management fees and average fee paying AUM. On top of that, there is an effect also coming from the subscription fees. I would say it is embedded in the model. Sofidy has decreased its net new money in the context of the COVID-19, notably during the year 2020. Now there is a strong recovery in net new money. We are benefiting from this recovery, not only on our AUM, but as well within our P&L, where we are benefiting from the subscription fees.
I would like maybe to highlight on that there is a very strong demand from the product at Sofidy. Sofidy is actually very dynamic. They have launched recently a specific new fund called Europe Invest, which is benefiting from strong demand and actually adding a new fund to our overall global platform. Maybe, Arnaud, to come back on your third question. We had announced back in 2019, actually the guidance in terms of AUM, which is once again to be above EUR 35 billion at the year of 2022. Here we are providing, I would say, a more shorter guidance and saying that we will be above EUR 33 billion by the end of the year. We think we will finish actually the year. Soon we will provide a new guidance to upgrade the existing one. Once again, the one existing currently is to be above EUR 35 billion.
Great. Thanks.
The next caller on the line is Nicolas Payen of Kepler Cheuvreux. Nicolas, when you are ready, please go ahead with your question.
Good evening. Thanks for the presentation. I have two questions, please. Two more general questions. The first one is on the state of the competition, because you mentioned increased competition, but at the same time increased demands for private markets and alternative asset management. I was wondering to what extent do you see more perhaps difficulty to actually deploy your cash, your dry powder, and at the same time maintaining your selectivity, which is still high. Do you witness any kind of tension on that front? The second one is perhaps you could update us on your SPAC plans and, in particular, if you intend to issue a new SPAC in Asia, please. Thank you very much.
Sure. Thanks, Nicolas. Maybe I can start. The competition has always been there. It's becoming maybe more visible because effectively there is a lot of, let's say, people going public, and we see a lot of attention around that. The competition has always been there in terms of the number of managers. What is increasing is the demand from the investor part. That's where the opportunity lies in our view. Certainly it's good for everyone, including the competition. There are many industry reports, I'm sure you've seen, showing the forecasted increased allocation by global investors worldwide, insurance companies, pension funds, you name it, sovereign wealth fund into private assets. There are many reasons to that. The lower for longer environment, people have to diversify and find some yields when it comes to Private Debt, Real Assets and the like.
The fact also that there is some real need to inject money into the real economy and not only in the public market. We're trying to grab a share of that. If you look at the Tikehau recent history over the past four years, I think we've demonstrated we were able to grow. Now your question about deploying and being under pressure to deploy. I think I had the opportunity in the past to flag that, and we keep on demonstrating our willingness to invest, and we alluded on that. If you're only sitting in London, Paris, New York, and you're managing zillions or tens of billions with a team trying to fly out, find opportunities in the private market, it doesn't work. We're not just sitting, watching at a Bloomberg screen with our phones to reach out to the sell side.
We need, and you need to have boots on the ground, people with some real edge locally, some networks. That's why at Tikehau, we've been investing a lot first in Europe by being present across the relevant European countries for us. We just added, at the beginning of the year, a presence in Germany where we had no local presence. We opened an office in Frankfurt, and we now have some partners there. As we've been doing elsewhere very successfully across Europe, when we are local in a country, it's not only to invest and to find opportunities across our strategies, but also to develop a business relationship with all the various stakeholders. First and foremost investors, because it's great when you're local and I will tell you basic things, like effectively being able to speak the same language and spending time with the investors.
That has been extremely important to the Tikehau growth. The difficulty to deploy is one challenge if you're effectively raising multi-billion funds and have limited resources, which is not Tikehau case. We're focusing on mid-markets across what we do. Also we try as much as possible, and I try to remain humble on that, Nicolas, is we try to anticipate the growth by adding some origination capacity. Today we've got a very nicely mapped presence across Western Europe, which has been our major playground, and obviously London is part of that. There might be opportunities to add other presence. Remember that last year we added Amsterdam, for example. It's Frankfurt this year, each time with some locals. Also making sure that you always anticipate in terms of your investment team. I wouldn't say that competition has increased.
I would say that because people are locating more to the asset class, you need to make sure that in order to serve them properly, you've got the proper resources up front. At Tikehau once again, our best backstop to that is the fact that we remain first and foremost the largest investor here. That's how we are approaching. Now, on the SPAC, that's a good point. As you know, we launched, and raised our first SPAC during H1. Pegasus, a EUR 500 million SPAC listed on Euronext Amsterdam. We co-sponsored that with Financière Agache, Groupe Arnault, and it's operated by two operating partners, Jean-Pierre Mustier, former UniCredit CEO, and Diego De Giorgi, who was the chairman of investment banking at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch. This one is focusing on the financial services, asset management, insurance, insurtech, and diversified financials.
What we stated up front is that we wanted to develop a family of SPACs, meaning that it was not just about doing a coup, if I may say. You might see us effectively filing further SPACs and raising further SPACs. As you may have picked up, the market has been somehow challenged a little bit over the past few weeks, and there were certainly some excesses, particularly here in the U.S., that had to be rebalanced. The European market remains a market that we intend to tackle, and we have a very legitimate proposal to be a partner of choice on SPAC. As to the Asian SPAC, there's been some press article about our interest to potentially list over there.
I cannot comment further, but as you know, we've always tried to be at Tikehau curious as to what were the new technologies developing, and as you know, we've been having a presence in Singapore for the past seven years. If the market was to open there, that's certainly a market that we will be monitoring.
Thank you.
Next on the line we have Christoph Greulich of Berenberg. Christoph, when you are ready, your line's now open. Please go ahead.
Good evening. Thanks a lot for taking my questions. Three questions from my side, please. The first one, a quick follow-up on the late fees in Private Equity. Could you give us any indication on the size of the contribution from those catch-up fees for the management fee revenues in H1? The second one is regarding the investment activities and more specifically with regard to the investments in funds. If I take the realized and the unrealized returns together, I get to an annualized return rate of about 8% in H1. Back in 2019, you've given out the midterm target for a run rate return of 10%-15%. Just wondering if you could give us an idea when you are planning to achieve or land in that range. Last question.
You made a comment in the press release that you would like to see a higher free float in liquidity. If you could maybe provide a bit more color on how you plan to achieve this.
Thanks, Christoph. Henri speaking. Well, the late management fees on private equity is actually totally market practice because when investors are joining the fund, at the end of the fund, they are paying since the first day you've been raising the fund. The effect on the first semester is roughly EUR 4 million as far as these late management fees. Obviously, we won't have that contribution, we will not have that contribution in H2, but we have other private equity funds currently in fundraising. For example, our Aero funds actually being fundraised either on the France space or on the Spain space. They will actually benefit from this specific scheme. It will become somehow more recurrent. Now, coming back to your second question on the investment. The figure you have mentioned is right. The contribution from Tikehau funds taking into contribution the results are actually amounting to EUR 65 million.
It's a bit above 8% of contribution. We did mention that on a run rate basis, we will be between 10%-15%.
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Pardon the interruption there. Let me try and reconnect the speaker line. Have we just lost Paris or? Yes, Mathieu, we can hear you. I'll try and recall Paris now.
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Yeah, you're back. Yeah.
Okay. Sorry. I will start maybe again on your second question, Christoph. EUR 65 million contribution from Tikehau funds for the first semester, so a bit more than 8.2%. Definitely, the run rate contribution we did disclose as a guidance, run rate in 2019 between 10%-15% is fully confirmed. Keep in mind that this needs to take into consideration the ramp-up of our Private Equity practice and some of our real estate funds as well. It's a run rate that we should expect to have in the coming years.
Maybe, just to add on to that, we covered it, Christoph Greulich. Obviously, the business fix and that has always been a return on capital employed, you've got a drag effect as you commit to the fund and you only invest as you get called. Our investment targets range from senior debt at 5% to Special Opportunities or private equity at 25%. That's how the portfolio is constructed. As we have today, as I said earlier, a EUR 6.1 billion, EUR 6.2 billion dry powder across the funds. We've got a little bit of this dilution. Maybe I can start on free float and Henri Marcoux will certainly add. As you know the reorganization, the regroup and reset transaction that we announced in July between TC and TCA was a necessary step for us to address the second phase of broadening the free float.
You've heard on the road, like many of your colleagues on the call, that sometimes that has been a pushback from investors. It was important for us to take one step at a time, and that was effectively step one. In parallel to that, to a certain extent, I would say that we're lucky to see that many new data points coming to the European market, which will be also a great way to benchmark the various business models. Our intention effectively remains to broaden the free float and the liquidity, which somehow has been relatively muted for a market cap that size and that we are obviously tackling. Henri, you want to add maybe?
No further comments on that. Fully agreed.
Yeah. That's all very clear. Thanks. Maybe just to quickly follow up on the last point. Can you give any color or provide any comments on how are you planning to increase the free float? Is it basically, should we expect new shares coming to the market, or is it more that existing shareholders might sell some shares?
I can start. First of all, there is an average for the volume that has been increasing. There's been, as you know, we've been increasing the partners management stake into the company. As much as I may have seen in the recent days or weeks that some funding partners have been monetizing their stake, that has never been the intention on our part, as you know. Quite the contrary, you've been following the way our working partners have been reducing themselves here. There could be as we were discussing earlier with Tom's question, there could be some external event such as potential M&A triggering primary needs. There could be historical and long-time shareholders getting to some point where they could monetize. I would not comment further here, but I would say that the alternatives and the options are many.
They're not mutually exclusive, first things first, we had to do the reorganization step in July, and now we are certainly in a much better place to address that. As I said, once again, in a wider comparable universe, that should also help favorably our public equity story.
Maybe as a conclusion on that, it's effectively, Christoph, that through the regroup and reset simplification, TCA is further investing into TC, clearly at a premium to what was the current stock price. TCA, Tikehau Capital Advisors, is long-term minded. We do not exclude TCA ownership dilution, should it result in value creation, but we do not have such plans, I would say, in the near term. Obviously, we strongly believe that the TC shares are undervalued, and we are committed to unlocking our share price performance.
I believe, Christoph, because it's important point that the set of results that we are detailing today, which comes now, it's been what, five years, four years that we've been a publicly traded company. People have been expecting Tikehau to effectively demonstrate that we could increase, gear up the asset management contribution to the overall balance of the business because we were overweighted balance sheet when we went public. Remember our numbers. I think that all that effectively bodes fairly well to demonstrate that we've been outperforming what we have been saying, and in a context of more structural tailwind on the asset class, we should keep on benefiting from that.
Yeah, that's all clear. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Christoph.
The next caller on the line is Joren Van Aken from Degroof Petercam. Joren, when you are ready, your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Yes, good evening. Thank you for taking my question. I have one. It's a bit more macro-focused. You had a very impressive H1 fundraising. Now with increasing rumors about tapering from the Fed and the ECB, do you expect this will impact fundraising momentum in the coming years or months? How is your view on the impact on liquidity of the market? Thank you.
I'm happy to give it a try here. I'm not a macroeconomist, but we're certainly trying to follow what is structural from what is very much conjectural. I would not expect the tapering to have an impact short-term on what is a much more structural trend to allocate to let's say private markets as a whole. Once again, private markets have to be approached differently across the asset classes. What we are experiencing, and again, evidenced by some industry reports, very much top-down in terms of investors, is that there is this intention to keep deploying more to the asset class because it's diversification, because it's long-term, because it's higher yielding, you name it. As much as we would be or we could be impacted by obviously any monetary policy that would be the contrary of what we've been experiencing.
If you look at the portfolios, everything we do in private credit is floating rate, it's variable. Basically you would benefit from any increase in rates. What we do on the private equity is only minority. We don't do controlled buyout. We don't have fully levered company that could face some refinancing risk. Quite the contrary. That would certainly offer some opportunity for our private equity business to become minority shareholders of a highly levered company that would have to reinforce their equity base. If you look on the real estate, what we tend to do is long-term sell and lease back. Very often the leases are inflation indexed, so you would also benefit from that. For the existing stocks, if I may say, we could be somehow protected there.
In terms of new flows, I would not expect, and certainly in the short to medium term, a real slowdown on allocation by global investors to the asset class as a consequence of a tapering policy of Central Bank because once again, the trend is much more structural.
Okay. Very clear. Thank you.
We have one more caller on the phone lines. Next up is Nicolas Vaysselier of BNP Paribas Exane . Nicolas, when you are ready, your line's now open. Please go ahead.
Hi, good evening. Thank you very much for taking some further questions. I have a couple of questions. The first one is more on fundraising. Do you have any more events to flag to us for the fundraising ongoing at your next direct lending flagship since the last AUM reporting in July? Related to that, I was wondering in terms of the next flagships coming on your private equity and private real assets platform, what can we see coming in 2022, 2023 there? On another topic, slide 14 is quite an interesting slide showing your growth mix around a range of funds. I understand, it's unrealized. I was wondering if you could give us some indications on what it is in terms of unrealized returns.
Related to that, I am wondering what could be the pace of performance-related earnings growth over the next two years, 2022, 2023. How would you see that in terms of the mix of performance revenues and the total mix of asset management revenue? Thank you very much.
Thanks. I would start with your first question in terms of fundraising. If we go business line by business line. As far as Private Debt is concerned, we are actually fundraising our flagship, Tikehau Direct Lending V. The launch of that fundraising was done in mid-2020. We have another bit less than a year in the fundraising period. We will continue on the success that we've had on TDL V so far. A very strong demand. As well on Private Debt, we have the Tikehau Impact Lending and Tikehau Private Debt Secondaries. Keep in mind as well that we have ongoing CLO initiative, would that be in Europe with CLO 6 before the end of the year, and the first CLO coming from the U.S.
Meanwhile, on private debt as well, we have a currently discussion on dedicated mandates, SMAs or other initiative going through Europe that we will actually benefit during the second semester.
As far as real assets is concerned, obviously we are on fundraising on a regular basis as far as Sofidy is concerned. Notably, as I mentioned previously, Sofidy Europe Invest, which was launched this year, our listed REITs in Singapore actually as well has been benefiting from the acquisition of the portfolio from Decathlon this year and has made a capital increase recently. We should see as well in the near future, hopefully some one new capital increase. We still have the contribution from Star America, the fundraising period of Star America Infrastructure Fund will end in December, so we will have contribution in the second semester. As far as private equity is concerned, we did mention Ace Capital Partners, which is still fundraising over the second semester, as well as Spain-focused Ace Aerospace Fund and the U.S. Decarbonization Fund, which Mathieu touched base on previously.
Finally, maybe talking about Capital Markets Strategies, where we did mention Tikehau Impact Credit which is a very pioneer and innovative product on high-yield markets, which will benefit the fundraising in the coming months. As far maybe the performance-related earnings are concerned, obviously we think these performance-related earnings are made of two components. The first one, which are actually performance fees on our Capital Markets Strategies business. 100% of these performance fees are going to the listed company. We had some last year. Depending on market condition, we should as well have a contribution from these performance fees this year, once again, depending on market condition. As far as carried interest, the next carried interest we will benefit will actually come from our Real Assets business where we have dedicated OPCI, which are actually in disposal mode on some of their assets. They should benefit the year next year, actually.
The next carried interest we will have as well will benefit from our vintage number three in Private Debt, and vintage number two as well also on Private Debt that will benefit the year 2022. It's a bit difficult to provide you a bit more color maybe on the next year. Louis, you want to say a word on that?
Yeah. To your point about what the gross MOIC and unrealized transactions in the fund. For our point of view, what is interesting in showing the gross MOIC.
Operator, looks like we have new technical issues with Paris.
Can you hear us?
Now we can.
Okay. Sorry. I was just mentioning that the gross MOIC on exited transaction is actually the relevant metric to assess the quality of the assets you are investing in the fund. Especially because when we are, as Henri mentioned, talking about potential carried interest, we do not compute unrealized performance when it comes to the carried interest generation. We figure in our model it makes more sense. We don't provide the unrealized gains, but clearly it's above what you can see on the slide here.
Nicolas, if I may, without being too technical, there's also another aspect to mention. As we said, we do not accrue potential carried interest, but more importantly the funds we managed, the underlying private funds, I'm talking only private funds, okay. They are what we call European style, meaning that there is no carried interest which would be recognized deal by deal. It's really once you have hit the hurdle at the fund level and that the fund you liquidate, then you get the performance fee. That's important because many of the European, sorry, the U.S. managers, they've got more the U.S. style type of underlying funds where they recognize carried on a deal by deal. For those of them who are listed, obviously that impacts your P&L.
It's also important that it also go at the fund level where we are extremely conservative in the approach.
Okay. Very clear. Thank you very much.
That's all the questions we have on the phone. I'll turn the call back to your hosts.
I don't think we have any questions on the webcast. Mathieu, if you want just to conclude.
No. Thank you all. We are available as always for follow-up one-on-ones with the team, Louis, Antoine Flamarion and all of us. Thank you for your interest and for joining, and we look forward to catching up when we release the Q3 AUM in two weeks. Thanks so much. Have a good night.
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