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Adviser Profile

As of Date 06/25/2024
Adviser Type - Related adviser
Number of Employees 5 -16.67%
of those in investment advisory functions 5 -16.67%
Registration SEC, Approved, 9/30/2010
AUM* 5,802,342 -57.32%
of that, discretionary 5,802,342 -57.32%
Private Fund GAV* 22,486 -56.43%
Avg Account Size 1,934,114 -57.32%
SMA’s No
Private Funds 2 1
Contact Info 610 xxxxxxx
Websites

Client Types

- Pooled investment vehicles

Advisory Activities

- Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles

Compensation Arrangments

Recent News

Reported AUM

Discretionary
Non-discretionary
72M 61M 51M 41M 31M 20M 10M
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Private Funds



Employees

Private Funds Structure

Fund Type Count GAV
Fund TypePrivate Equity Fund Count2 GAV$22,486

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Brochure Summary

Overview

FIRM AND PRINCIPAL OWNERS CMS Fund Advisers, LLC (sometimes called the “Firm” in this brochure) is a Delaware limited liability company and successor by merger in 2010 to the business of CMS Fund Advisers, Inc. CMS Fund Advisers, Inc. was formed in 2002 as a spin-out of the advisory business of CMS Investment Resources, Inc., which commenced advisory operations in 1982. The Firm has one owner, CMS Holdco, LLC, which is also called the Firm’s sole member and manager. CMS Holdco, LLC, in turn, is owned by 6 parties: David Clapper, Morey H. Goldberg, William A. Landman, Richard A. Mitchell, Paul Silberberg and Mark I. Solomon’s estate. These persons’ ownership interests are not equal, and no one person owns 25% or more of CMS Holdco, LLC. CMS Holdco, LLC is managed by a board of managers comprised of the first five individuals listed who are its owners. The Firm has no subsidiaries. Effective January 1, 2012, the Firm ceased advising new clients and two new related investment advisers began operations in a planned reorganization of CMS’s real estate and private equity businesses to separate investment platforms and change their ownership and control structures. MainLine Investment Advisers, LLC (“MLIA”) was formed to advise or subadvise certain private equity and other private fund clients, and Merion Realty Advisers, LLC (“MRA”) was formed to subadvise and advise certain real estate fund clients. For the purposes of this brochure, the Firm, MLIA and MRA are called advisory affiliates notwithstanding their ownership and control differences. Please refer to Item 10 for more information about financial industry affiliations. INVESTMENT SUPERVISORY SERVICES The Firm’s main business is to provide investment advice to various private equity and real estate investment funds which are called our clients. Clients are limited partnerships that are related to us because there is majority common ownership and control between the Firm and the general partners of those limited partnerships. Some of our clients are funds of funds meaning that they invest in other investment funds that may or may not be related to us. All of our current clients are closed-end (meaning they do not accept additional subscribers after a stated offering period) investment partnerships with capital committed by investors that usually is drawn down and contributed over time to purchase investment securities and pay expenses. Most of our clients do not offer redemption rights or liquidity to their investors. Please refer to the Schedule of Firm Clients included
at the back of this Form ADV. Our advice is considered to be investment supervisory services because we give continuous advice based on the individual needs of each client. We look for investments that meet the stated objectives, strategy and investment guidelines of each client. We will Part 2A of Form ADV: Firm Brochure Page 5 only recommend that a client buy a security if that type of security and the amount to be invested in that security meets the client’s objectives, strategy and investment guidelines as stated in the client’s offering memorandum and partnership agreement. We supervise the entire investment process and monitor the performance of each investment security held by our clients. We make recommendations to buy, hold and sell investment securities. However, we do not make the final investment decisions. In other words, we do not have investment discretion. The final investment decisions are made by the general partners of the various limited partnerships that are our clients. As stated above, there is common majority ownership and control between the Firm and those general partners. In cases where MLIA or MRA is acting as ultimate subadviser, MLIA or MRA may be providing some or all of the services described above. At this time, all private fund clients where the Firm exclusively provided continuous investment advice have been liquidated. We (or a related subadviser) primarily provide advice with respect to stock, equity securities and debt securities in private companies and limited partnerships. We also may offer advice with respect to a wide variety of securities, including (i) any type of private or public stock or equity interests, (ii) investment company securities, (iii) warrants, (iv) corporate debt securities, (v) municipal securities, (vi) options contracts on securities, (vii) various equity and debt interests in or secured by real estate, and (viii) interests in other investment funds such as private equity, real estate, buyout, venture capital and hedge funds. We do not participate in wrap fee programs. The Firm has been winding down business affairs and all remaining private fund clients are in various stages of liquidation. As such, the amount of client assets we currently manage is only $5.883 million (as of valuations available in March 2024 – values are updated annually in accordance with SEC reporting obligations). All assets remaining are advised by either MLIA or MLIA and MRA as subadviser(s) since January 1, 2012. Part 2A of Form ADV: Firm Brochure Page 6