Search Funds: Winning the Deal Without the Highest Offer - Max Artz

Max Artz leads the search fund strategy at Peterson Partners, where he screens roughly 300 searchers a year to back 10 to 15. He breaks down why this asset class has returned in the mid-30% range for three decades without compressing, and how the best searchers win deals against buyers writing bigger checks. If you're weighing search as an allocation or the operator path yourself, he lays out what separates a sponsor worth backing from one riding the trend.🔔 Please Subscribe and Hit the Bell: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Discover More From Long Angle👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NavigatingWealthPodcast👉 Beyond Wealth Newsletter: https://langle.co/bwnews👉 Research & Studies: https://www.longangle.com/research━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Resources & Links👥 Become a Member: longangle.com/navigatingwealth📤 Get Episode Release Notifications: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Socials💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle🅧 Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.