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Private Equity Spotlight — 273 episodes
Anne Glover: AI will turn some SaaS providers into dinosaurs
What LPs are looking for in defence-related PE strategies
PEI's Data Dive: What the PEI 300 reveals about fundraising’s comeback
Disruption Matters: The Exit Playbook
Why financial services dealmaking demands deep sector expertise
A GP and LP unpack best (and worst) practices in co-investment
What’s next for value creation?
Measuring alpha in private markets: Why asset-level data matters
PEI’s Data Dive: Reading the signals in secondaries sentiment
The new playbook for emerging managers
PEI's Data Dive: How LPs' investment priorities are shifting
Are PE's best days behind it? An LP and GP discuss
How an LP and a GP are approaching the slower exit environment
Private Funds CFO NY Forum: Sighs of relief
How PE markets evolved in a volatile 2025
Behind PE’s democratisation drive and how GP-leds are thawing the liquidity freeze
The new era of GP-led secondaries
The next frontier for real assets: Why multi-product managers have a head start to 2030
Real estate credit finds its footing as markets recalibrate
Dealmaking: Is a rebound around the corner?
Disruption Matters: Building sustainable growth engines
Disruption Matters: Launch codes for 2026
Europe’s real estate reset: Capital flows and credit bring cautious optimism
Disruption Matters: The innovation factor
Why industrials are back on PE’s radar in the age of AI
Inside secondaries' expansion into private wealth
Thinking of skipping a vintage? Listen to this first
Opportunities amid the dislocation: Investing in Germany’s property market
Should semi-liquids charge 2 and 20?
Disruption Matters: Winning the digital race
Bain's David Gross on how to invest in periods of heightened volatility
Unlocking potential in Dutch residential: Global capital is key
The opportunity surrounding uncertainty
Disruption Matters: Cultivating growth-first leadership
CMBS sees swift rebound after market turmoil
Disruption Matters: Orchestrating change in disruptive times
PEI 300: What's behind private equity's fundraising plateau?
As the US real estate debt market resets, private credit steps in
Infrastructure’s digital age
Redefining finance leadership
How tariff turbulence is hitting private markets
Sweden’s bank-dominated real estate market ‘needs’ alternative lenders
How emerging technologies are transforming litigation finance
How specialised can the secondaries market get?
Mentorship and the future of finance talent
Inside the semi-liquid fund boom
The energy transition’s next era
Secrets to raising a first-time fund in 2025
NZ Super on why a total portfolio approach can both help and hinder PE portfolios
The ‘good boring’ approach to private credit
Is America’s energy transition safe in Trump’s hands?
Peeling back the onion on secondaries in 2024 – literally
A golden era for opportunistic lending
Trump, fees on co-investments and how semi-liquids are affecting GP behaviour
Aware Super's checklist for emerging managers
Disruption Matters: Embarking on the next era of value creation
Behind the numbers: Elevating transparency in private market valuations and benchmarking
Top tips from female founders in alternatives
Disruption Matters: Optimizing talent for this new era
Can mentoring help close the private markets gender gap?
Disruption Matters: How tech supercharges today's roll-ups
Identifying the office of the future
Private credit lenders seize the moment in Europe
SI Decade: is Asia-Pacific the most promising secondaries market?
Disruption Matters: Managing the middle
What stabilizing base rates mean for commercial real estate
How to get into the SI 50: Inside our latest ranking of the biggest secondaries fundraisers
Carry tax increase in the UK: Anarchy for PE or a new reality?
Navigating the Asian private credit opportunity
Infrastructure debt: 'A critical part of the capital solution'
Infrastructure firms look to accelerate the energy transition in Europe
NAV finance steps into the mainstream
SI Decade: Europe’s appeal and the evolution of specialisation
Disruption Matters: The future of due diligence
PEI's Future 40 on finding a niche in private equity
Disruption Matters: The digital promise
Inside the latest PEI 300 of private equity's heaviest hitters
SI Decade: How the secondaries industry can empower women
SI Decade: Why specialised secondaries are poised for growth
Clean energy: More capital will come in 2024
SI Decade: The birth of programmatic secondaries sales
The sustainable boom in private credit
SI Decade: Inside the biggest regulation changes to secondaries
SI Decade: Will the North American market’s dominance continue?
SI Decade: From frustration to longer holds with single-asset continuation vehicles
SI Decade: Zombie funds to continuation vehicles
Delivering flexible capital during difficult times
PIMCO’s François Trausch on decarbonization, banks and ‘pretend and extend’
SI Decade: From financial crisis to secondaries sales
Where banks' multifamily exposure is causing the most 'acute risk'
So you want to launch a new fund strategy?
Where electric vehicles meet infrastructure investing
The figures behind secondaries' second record year
Navigating APAC's 'toughest-ever' fundraising environment
The impact of geopolitics on real estate returns
How endowments and foundations can make the most of market volatility
Apollo’s Akila Grewal on the firm's strategic evolution
ELFA's Sabrina Fox on the tussles that have shaped deal agreements
Pemberton's Symon Drake-Brockman on the building of a pan-European GP
Kartesia’s Julien Rigon on how LP pressure has shaped ESG
LCM’s Paul Burdell on finding gaps in the private credit market
Ares’ CEO Mike Arougheti on the huge potential for private debt’s future growth
Infrastructure capital remains all in on climate agenda, despite global headwinds
How AI is transforming finance and accounting
Ardian’s Colas on the potential for secondaries growth in 2024
Tracking LP perspectives on private equity
Managing through cycles in the direct lending space
Five controversial beliefs about the GP-led secondaries market
Hurdle rates, fees and deal terms – how the PE market changed this year
Disruption Matters: Unlocking the power of stakeholder-driven exits
Behind Q1-Q3’s best-ever secondaries fundraising figures
Disruption Matters: Delivering growth against the odds
Why direct lending will keep growing
Disruption Matters: Mastering the diplomacy of value creation
Disruption Matters: Setting a deal up for success in the first 100 days
Why managers with dry powder need to reconsider how they find opportunities
Disruption Matters: Closing deals in a turbulent market
Why sustainable investing is not a luxury
The changing state of digital infrastructure
Strategic Partners’ Perry on the state of the market and career lessons learned
Overcoming TCFD’s data collection challenges
Investing in the energy transition using a non-specific mandate
The Women of Influence reflect on the past decade in private markets
Energy storage goes beyond lithium-ion
How automation is revolutionising regulatory compliance
Leadership lessons from the Women of Influence
Which advisers stood out from the crowd?
PEI’s Future 40 share top tips for finding success
How private equity is pivoting amid macro disruption
The world’s largest private equity fundraisers
How millennial values are shaping ESG decision making
Ardian’s Stéphanie Bensimon on how to reposition assets to create opportunities
M&G Real Estate’s Tony Brown: ‘This could be the best vintage since 2010’ for value-add
CBRE IM’s Paul Gibson: Firms must provide a ‘pathway’ on DE&I
Why it’s a ‘Goldilocks’ moment for alternative credit lenders
15 minutes with Nathalie Palladitcheff
Apollo’s Boris Olujic: ‘Investors need to recalibrate’ to have an impact
Sharpening borders: How domicile boundaries are shifting for the private funds industry
What’s making the GP-led market tick
Where private debt opportunity lies today
How lending to the industrial outdoor storage sector is evolving
Exploring the private real estate debt fund ‘ecosystem’
Female empowerment and intersectionality in PE
How to identify a renewables asset
What LPs and GPs look at to make sense of the higher-rate environment
How the secondaries market fared in 2022
Dechert’s PE co-head on the biggest trends in the industry
How PE is navigating interest rate rises globally
Driving LGBTQ+ inclusion in private equity
Who’s investing in infratech?
The window of opportunity for private credit
Jeremy Coller and Nigel Dawn on the future of the secondaries market
LPs rethink role of private equity in portfolios amid higher-rate era
Managing risk in a risk-off European residential real estate market
How PE pros are handling higher interest rates and the slowdown in dealmaking
Can controlled environment agriculture really feed the world?
How domiciling in Jersey can help US managers targeting European capital
The unprecedented uncertainty of energy transition investing
Disruption Matters: Planning for the unknown
The allure of infrastructure secondaries
On the minds of millennials: Prioritising mental health
What does employee ownership mean for investors’ returns?
Disruption Matters: Reimagining the workforce
Disruption Matters: Digitizing with a purpose
Disruption Matters: Outmaneuvering cyber threats
Fuel for thought – what energy security means for the transition
Carbon capture – a market in the making
Disruption Matters: Acting local, staying global amid operational and financial disruption
Disruption Matters: Plotting a surefooted path in a disrupted world
Introducing ’Disruption Matters’
Four steps to cut through greenwash
The European debt opportunity
How to break into private markets
How to break into private equity
How to break into private debt
How to break into venture capital
How the SEC is already probing ESG claims
Ex-Apollo insider spills the beans on private equity’s inner workings
‘We continue to build infra for a planet that no longer exists’
Inside this year’s record-breaking PEI 300 ranking
PEI Future 40 fundraisers on what’s next for private equity
Farmland Partners’ ‘short and distort’ public markets nightmare
The quest for ‘green’ data centres
Private funds’ year of living dangerously
Natural gas caught in the Russia-Ukraine crossfire
What investors think of manager changes
Pantheon on the ’silver lining’ of hiring in a pandemic
How natural gas can pave the way to net zero
BlackRock excited by the investment ’white space’ of the energy transition
Ajit Pai on the infrastructure bill’s broadband boom
Four trailblazers on the future of ESG-linked credit
What ever happened to opportunity zones?
EisnerAmper‘s CEO on a possible ‘sea change‘ for the accounting industry
Is now the time to sell a portfolio?
How private debt has weathered the uncertainty around inflation
SoftBank on foodtech: ‘Scale, scale, scale’
IFM on infra debt’s success and the challenges ahead
Should you build your portfolio on secondaries?
Can we cure the cyber-crime epidemic?
How inflationary pressures are likely to play out in private equity
The poor are 'profoundly absent' in impact investing conversations
Former top SEC examiner names biggest risks to PE
How covid halted strategic sophistication
Is action living up to the rhetoric on gender diversity?
Is it finally time for asset recycling in the US?
True Ventures talks scouting diverse talent and what a ‘VP of culture’ does
Where did all the distressed money go?
SPONSORED: The democratisation of private markets is under way
Why NextEnergy launched the world's first international solar fund
Why the American Jobs Plan is an opportunity not to be missed
What to do with all the excess retail?
Behind the latest PE and private debt fundraising numbers
How OMERS’ infrastructure portfolio bucked the trend in 2020
SPONSORED: How private equity can unlock value in technology
Inside KKR’s employee ownership initiative
ESG-linked fund finance: Sustainability step-change or window-dressing?
Why China’s policies are creating a funding gap
What does the refinancing wave mean for me?
Real assets under Biden
How a Democrat-controlled US government could impact private equity
So you’re thinking of spinning out?
What's ahead for Australian commercial real estate lending?
SPONSORED: Four auto trends ripe for PE investment
In depth with Carlyle and TPG’s diversity and inclusion heads
Why one man left private equity to fight for racial justice
In depth with Hamilton Lane's Mario Giannini
How VCs connect with co-workers and portfolio companies during the pandemic
Evercore's Nigel Dawn on the secondaries opportunities to come
How to value assets during covid-19
Rise of SPACs, demand for long holds and adjusting PE operations in the pandemic
Who will be the winners and losers in mid-market lending?
Why this crisis is different than the last for private credit
Women and secondaries – a match made in heaven?
Is coronavirus a blip on the agriculture forecast sheet?
The big hitters thinking of jumping ship
Three months of lockdown – how are LPs and GPs adapting?
What you need to know about the fundraising pioneers of 2020
How sunny is the outlook for renewables amid covid-19?
Why the future of private real estate is digital
Which private asset classes are experiencing a boom in dealflow?
What midstream risks are you not taking?
LP defaults, force majeure and over-collateralisation amid covid-19
Pulled deals, chaotic fundraisings, skittish LPs: The corona effect
How covid-19 is hitting private markets
When and how to build an in-house IR team
Why real estate investors do not love today's low interest rates
How the secondaries sellside is dealing with a generational crisis
Operating partners share their horror stories
Why your next deal sourcing avenue may not have funds
Fiduciary duty has 'been going in the wrong direction'
CalSTRS on becoming 'the partner of choice'
How to tackle your cybersecurity issues
Why co-investments are in the best interest of GPs and LPs
SEC aims to level playing field for retail investors
How PE firms can recruit a diverse investment team
Rise of the chief information officer
Capitalizing on automation
Everything you wanted to know about preferred equity
Top 10 litigation risks facing PE firms today
What’s in your fund fee documents?
How Germany has become a 'battleground'
Leapfrog’s CEO on separating the impact investing wheat from the chaff
How to avoid pitfalls in stapled deals
Gazing into the future: 5 tips for long-term investors
BC Partners on moving from PE into credit and real estate
Is this the most dangerous man in private equity?
Riverside on the GFC's 'difficult blessing'
Why investors should look beyond the headlines in emerging markets
Highway to the opportunity zone
Why the ‘triple whammy’ of issues impeding Chinese investments into US is here to stay
Where are hurdle rates trending?
The smartest ways for debt firms to use technology
Why GP-led secondaries is the next big thing in private equity