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PEI Private Equity Spotlight
by PEI Group · English
PEI Private Equity Spotlight 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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How secondaries are reshaping fund operations
How the private capital secondaries market has become a permanent liquidity and flexibility tool, and what operational infrastructure fund managers need to execute growth—especially via GP-led…
9 Nov 2026 · 26m · 10 chaptersHamilton Lane's Hirsch: Private markets industry has too many GPs
Erik Hirsch of Hamilton Lane discusses why private markets’ exit and performance environment is muted despite improving fundraising, arguing the industry has too many GPs and is evolving away from…
22 Oct 2026 · 26m · 12 chaptersThe Exit Playbook: Safe landings when exits stall
What to do when a private equity exit stalls—how to diagnose why, communicate, regroup, and pivot to a new exit route (including partial sales, minority stakes, or waiting) rather than getting…
13 Oct 2026 · 26m · 11 chaptersThe Exit Playbook: The human key to exits
Designing private-equity exits around human capital—management quality, incentive alignment, timing/“circle of trust,” deal exhaustion, customer messaging, and buyer fit—because people and…
6 Oct 2026 · 37m · 17 chapters
The Exit Playbook: Right-timing the exit
How private equity managers should time exits (12–18 months process), using trigger points, constant re-evaluation, and “clean” quality of earnings to reduce diligence friction and match the buyer…
29 Sep 2026 · 27m · 17 chapters
The Exit Playbook: Starting with the exit journey in mind
Reverse-engineering private equity exits by starting with the desired exit outcome, discounting expected multiple expansion, and building “proof points” early so buyers can underwrite sustainable…
22 Sep 2026 · 24m · 12 chapters
The Exit Playbook: The buyer’s POV
How private equity sellers should craft an exit narrative from the buyer’s POV—prove the “backstory,” leave “meat on the bone” for the next owner, and de-risk claims (including tech/AI, governance,…
15 Sep 2026 · 24m · 13 chapters
Why ‘smoke and mirrors’ won’t cut it during fundraising
Fundraising in private equity is muted despite strong headline totals; fund closings are down and capital concentrates among a few managers.
10 Sep 2026 · 43m · 19 chapters
PEI’s Data Dive: How PE is responding to growing cost scrutiny
PEI Group’s Private Fund CFO’s Fees and Expenses Survey 2026, based on 132 firms, examining how private equity fund managers handle fees/expenses, disclosures, and governance amid rising SEC and LP…
24 Aug 2026 · 31m · 12 chaptersPEI's Data Dive: The changing shape of private equity's biggest allocators
PEI’s Data Dive examines the GI 150 ranking—private equity’s list of the 150 largest institutional PE investors by fair value of PE portfolios—and what allocation growth, strategy shifts, and…
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