Episodes

Friday Mar 20, 2020
How covid-19 is hitting private markets
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Are private asset classes better positioned to weather the crisis? Our senior editorial teams covering PE, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries provide insight.

Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
When and how to build an in-house IR team
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Executive recruiters Mary Gay Townsend and Simon Nixon discuss the pros and cons of having your own investor relations team – and whether it's worth it.

Monday Mar 02, 2020
Why real estate investors do not love today's low interest rates
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Institutional capital is worried about the long-term impacts of 'a global stage that we've never seen before.' Anthony Breault of Oregon State Treasury, Greg MacKinnon of Pension Real Estate Association and Brant Bryan of Cresa tell us what a 'lower-for-longer' interest rate environment means for private real estate.

Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
How the secondaries sellside is dealing with a generational crisis
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Executive recruiters Mary Gay Townsend and Simon Nixon, who've helped place some of the biggest names in secondaries over the years, discuss the top issue facing the industry.

Monday Feb 03, 2020
Operating partners share their horror stories
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Executives from EQT, Permira, The Riverside Company and NewQuest Capital Partners share some of the lessons they've learned, as well as what operating partners can do to help create value and ensure alignment at the pre-deal stage, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Why your next deal sourcing avenue may not have funds
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Independent sponsors, once known as fundless sponsors, have proliferated in recent years as they shed a reputation for inability to deliver, and have appealed to LPs wanting to commit capital to individual deals.

Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Fiduciary duty has 'been going in the wrong direction'
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
ILPA senior policy counsel Chris Hayes discusses the organization's new model limited partnership agreement, including how it seeks to restore fiduciary duty to the LP-GP relationship.

Sunday Sep 29, 2019
CalSTRS on becoming 'the partner of choice'
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
California State Teachers' Retirement System deputy CIO Scott Chan and head of real estate Mike DiRe dive into the pension’s new investment strategy: the collaborative model, which prioritizes joint ventures, separate accounts and direct acquisitions.

Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
How to tackle your cybersecurity issues
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
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.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Why co-investments are in the best interest of GPs and LPs
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
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.

Monday Aug 12, 2019
SEC aims to level playing field for retail investors
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
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.

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

Monday Jul 01, 2019
Rise of the chief information officer
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Carlyle’s Georgette Kiser discusses the increasingly important and challenging role and why every firm is having to become a data and technology company.

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

Monday Jun 24, 2019
Everything you wanted to know about preferred equity
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
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.

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

Thursday Jun 20, 2019
What’s in your fund fee documents?
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
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.

Friday Jun 14, 2019
How Germany has become a 'battleground'
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
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.

Thursday May 30, 2019
Leapfrog’s CEO on separating the impact investing wheat from the chaff
Thursday May 30, 2019
Thursday May 30, 2019
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.

Monday May 13, 2019
How to avoid pitfalls in stapled deals
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
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.

Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Gazing into the future: 5 tips for long-term investors
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
Tuesday Apr 09, 2019
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.

Monday Mar 04, 2019
BC Partners on moving from PE into credit and real estate
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
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.

Monday Feb 11, 2019
Is this the most dangerous man in private equity?
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
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?

Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Riverside on the GFC's 'difficult blessing'
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
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.

Friday Dec 14, 2018
Why investors should look beyond the headlines in emerging markets
Friday Dec 14, 2018
Friday Dec 14, 2018
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.

Monday Dec 10, 2018
Highway to the opportunity zone
Monday Dec 10, 2018
Monday Dec 10, 2018
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.

Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
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.

Friday Nov 30, 2018
Where are hurdle rates trending?
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
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.

Friday Nov 30, 2018
The smartest ways for debt firms to use technology
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
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.

Friday Nov 30, 2018
Why GP-led secondaries is the next big thing in private equity
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
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.