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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Mar 4, 2019 • 11min
BC Partners on moving from PE into credit and real estate
BC Partners' Nikos Stathopoulos gives us a run down on what it is like making the move from private equity into private credit and real estate, in this 10-minute podcast.
Feb 11, 2019 • 18min
Is this the most dangerous man in private equity?
Professor Ludovic Phalippou of Oxford University says GPs must accept that some elements of the PE model are not working so well for LPs. Is he a threat to the industry or its saviour?
Jan 8, 2019 • 9min
Riverside on the GFC's 'difficult blessing'
As the firm celebrates 30 years in the industry, co-founder Bela Szigethy reflects on how the global financial crisis changed the firm for the better. PEI's Isobel Markham reports.
Dec 14, 2018 • 16min
Why investors should look beyond the headlines in emerging markets
Albright Capital’s Gregory Bowes discusses why improvements in creditor rights and bankruptcy codes in emerging markets mean investors needn’t be weary of the asset class. PEI's Isobel Markham reports.
Dec 10, 2018 • 20min
Highway to the opportunity zone
PERE's Lisa Fu talks with several experts to break down the opportunities, risks and rules that come with the new US federal program creating buzz among real estate investors.
Dec 6, 2018 • 25min
Why the ‘triple whammy’ of issues impeding Chinese investments into US is here to stay
From capital controls and CFIUS to the intensifying trade war, Chinese investors trying to invest in the US are encountering many hurdles. David Blumenfeld and Paul Guan of the law firm Paul Hastings discuss these hurdles with PERE's Arshiya Khullar.
Nov 30, 2018 • 30min
Where are hurdle rates trending?
With managers increasingly putting pressure on LPs to enter the carry early, Threadmark partner Patricia Wilkinson and PEI senior editors Bruno Alves, Jonathan Brasse and Toby Mitchenall look across asset classes to find out whether the status quo really is changing.
Nov 30, 2018 • 22min
The smartest ways for debt firms to use technology
Are fund managers missing a trick by applying old-fashioned methods to data mining, deal sourcing and investor reporting? We dive into the issues in this 20-minute discussion with Matthias Kirchgaessner of Plexus and Alex Schmid of ESO Capital.
Nov 30, 2018 • 37min
Why GP-led secondaries is the next big thing in private equity
From stapled deals to restructurings, tender offers to strip sales, Andrew Sealey, managing partner and chief executive of Campbell Lutyens, discusses the different types of GP-led deals and how they can benefit all parties.
