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.
Recent Episodes
The Exit Playbook: The buyer’s POV
Sep 15, 2026This panel episode from the 'Exit Playbook' miniseries explores how private equity firms can structure exits by prioritizing the buyer's point of view from initial underwriting through close. Guests including Mike Hollander (GTCR), Alex Greenbaum (EQT), Alexis Underwood (Wynnchurch), and others discuss building credible narratives grounded in proven fundamentals, leaving upside opportunities for the next owner, understanding buyer type (strategic vs. sponsor), and how tech capabilities and reputation for ethical selling drive exit success.
Why ‘smoke and mirrors’ won’t cut it during fundraising
Sep 10, 2026Young Lee, managing director at Abbott Capital (a $40B+ fund-of-funds manager), discusses private equity fundraising dynamics with Jack Purcell, managing partner at Ridgemont Equity Partners. The conversation covers LP perspectives on fund sizing, the importance of operational partners versus 'smoke and mirrors', realistic portfolio marks, succession planning, and the outlook for mid-market private equity in a higher-rate environment.
PEI’s Data Dive: How PE is responding to growing cost scrutiny
Aug 24, 2026PEI's Data Dive episode examines findings from the Private Funds CFO Fees & Expenses Survey 2026, conducted across 132 US alternative asset managers. Hosts Colleen Fay (Withum), Theodore Edwards (Troutman Pepper Locke), and Bill Myers (Private Funds CFO) discuss rising SEC scrutiny on fee practices, the shift toward 100% fee offsets, documentation gaps in continuation vehicles, regulatory pressures around retail capital access, and the limited but growing role of AI in reducing operational costs.
PEI's Data Dive: The changing shape of private equity's biggest allocators
Aug 4, 2026This Data Dive episode analyzes PEI's Global Investor 150 ranking, which tracks the world's largest private equity institutional investors based on fair market value of PE portfolios. Senior reporters Carmela Mendoza and Katrina Lau, joined by host Evie Rusman, explore how the top 150 LPs allocated $2.88 trillion to private equity in 2025—up 8.7% year-over-year—despite a challenging fundraising and exit environment. The discussion reveals key trends including the rise of mid-market strategies, adoption of total portfolio approaches, the growing influence of Asian sovereign wealth funds, and the widening gap between mega-allocators and smaller institutional investors.
Anne Glover: AI will turn some SaaS providers into dinosaurs
Jul 8, 2026What LPs are looking for in defence-related PE strategies
Jul 2, 2026PEI's Data Dive: What the PEI 300 reveals about fundraising’s comeback
Jun 29, 2026Disruption Matters: The Exit Playbook
Jun 22, 2026Why financial services dealmaking demands deep sector expertise
Jun 16, 2026A GP and LP unpack best (and worst) practices in co-investment
Jun 3, 2026
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