

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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Sep 24, 2019 • 9min
How to tackle your cybersecurity issues
Agio founder and CEO Bart McDonough discusses strengthening the GP-LP bond, beginning cybersecurity integration at the C-suite, and the need for firms to adopt tailored solutions.

Sep 11, 2019 • 13min
Why co-investments are in the best interest of GPs and LPs
The strategy brings investors reduced fees and managers can write large cheques. Industry practitioners from The Carlyle Group, Cambridge Associates and Kennedy Lewis Investment Management say these are only a few of the upshots.

Aug 12, 2019 • 21min
SEC aims to level playing field for retail investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission's concept release on the harmonization of securities offering exemptions could prelude more Main Street access to private equity. PFCFO spoke with experts from law firm Ropes & Gray about what this could mean for PE firms and the future of retail investing.

Jul 31, 2019 • 11min
How PE firms can recruit a diverse investment team
Veteran headhunter in the private equity space Will Moynahan discusses how general partners can promote diversity and inclusion in their recruitment practices.

Jul 1, 2019 • 17min
Rise of the chief information officer
Carlyle’s Georgette Kiser discusses the increasingly important and challenging role and why every firm is having to become a data and technology company.

Jun 26, 2019 • 28min
Capitalizing on automation
Anubhav Saxena discusses how firms can utilize new technologies to accelerate equity value creation in portfolio companies and build digital workforces.

Jun 24, 2019 • 26min
Everything you wanted to know about preferred equity
Preferred equity isn’t new but firms such as 17Capital have been applying it to private equity via dedicated funds. In this 26-minute podcast we speak to managing partner Augustin Duhamel about the strategy that is quietly taking the market by storm.

Jun 24, 2019 • 12min
Top 10 litigation risks facing PE firms today
Proskauer’s Josh Newville and Tim Mungovan talk through the key legal risks facing private equity in 2019.

Jun 20, 2019 • 11min
What’s in your fund fee documents?
Private credit might be the new kid on the block in the alternative asset world, but the asset class’s fees have still evolved independently of private equity.

Jun 14, 2019 • 33min
How Germany has become a 'battleground'
Hans-Jorg Baumann, Alexander Bode and Boerge Grauel discuss competition, supply and demand, bank domination and LP allocation priorities at the PDI Germany Forum 2019.


