

Private Equity Spotlight
PEI Group
PEI Group’s ‘Private Equity Spotlight’ podcast illuminates the latest trends in private equity across fundraising, portfolio management, deals, regulation and more. Get a front-row seat with our award-winning journalists from publications including Private Equity International, Private Funds CFO, Buyouts and PE Hub, as they interview the industry’s biggest personalities and dig deep into the dynamics affecting LPs, GPs and service providers. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Aug 4, 2022 • 21min
The European debt opportunity
In this special episode of Spotlight, sponsored by Arrow Global, CEO Zach Lewy tells PDI editor Andy Thomson why a local approach offers unique advantages for private lenders in Europe.

Jul 21, 2022 • 15min
How to break into private markets
Two of this year’s Women of Influence, Luxcara’s Alexandra von Bernstorff and BlackRock’s Pam Chan, discuss the challenges of starting a career in the industry.

Jul 11, 2022 • 13min
How to break into private equity
Two professionals featured in PEI Media’s Women of Influence in Private Markets list 2022, APG’s Keren Raz and General Atlantic’s Melis Kahya Akar, discuss the challenges they faced as women in the field.

Jul 5, 2022 • 15min
How to break into private debt
Two professionals in the asset class featured in this year’s Women of Influence list, MV Credit’s Nicole Downer and Ares Management’s Andrea Fernandez, discuss how to navigate career challenges in the industry and resist gender bias.

Jul 1, 2022 • 18min
How to break into venture capital
Two of this year’s Women of Influence, WOCstar Fund’s Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne and Supply Change Capital’s Noramay Cadena, discuss the road to success in VC.

Jun 28, 2022 • 10min
How the SEC is already probing ESG claims
'There is a lot of material being requested.' A recent letter from the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows the extent to which it is probing managers about their ESG claims and practices.

Jun 13, 2022 • 12min
Ex-Apollo insider spills the beans on private equity’s inner workings
Sachin Khajuria, a former partner at Apollo Global Management, discusses his book Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win, and why the industry needs to engage more with wider society.

Jun 13, 2022 • 10min
‘We continue to build infra for a planet that no longer exists’
Bill Green, founder of Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, explains how investors are mispricing climate risk and what needs to change.

Jun 7, 2022 • 17min
Inside this year’s record-breaking PEI 300 ranking
PEI’s editorial team discusses how the feverish fundraising environment has contributed to the record $2.6trn raised by the world's biggest private equity firms, and where the growth is coming from.

May 26, 2022 • 21min
PEI Future 40 fundraisers on what’s next for private equity
Fundraising rising stars from Verdane, Development Partners International and Rede Partners discuss the future of the market.


