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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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.
May 30, 2019 • 15min
Leapfrog’s CEO on separating the impact investing wheat from the chaff
Fresh from raising a $700m fund in May, Leapfrog Investments’ founder and CEO Andy Kuper talks to Toby Mitchenall about how impact investing will evolve as more firms enter the fray.
May 13, 2019 • 17min
How to avoid pitfalls in stapled deals
Blue chip managers are using stapled secondaries deals to boost fundraising and provide liquidity to LPs. In this episode, lawyers from Proskauer, Debevoise & Plimpton and MJ Hudson discuss how GPs and LPs should approach this increasing transaction type.
Apr 9, 2019 • 14min
Gazing into the future: 5 tips for long-term investors
Wired contributing editor and futurist Ben Hammersley explains how to deal with exponential growth, discusses the needs created by new technology and explains why cognitive-enhancing infra is a must in the age of AI.
