Spotlight: A PEI Podcast

Mar 24 2025 230 ep. 18 mins 105

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Deep dives into the world of private equity investing with authoritative interviews from all corners of the industry.

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How specialised can the secondaries market get?

Mar 24 2025 45 mins

This episode is sponsored by Evercore, Davis Polk and Dawson Partners and first appeared on Secondaries Investor's Second Thoughts podcast The secondaries market sits at a crossroads. Never before have LPs been presented with such an array of different liquidity offerings to back. There are specialised secondaries funds focusing on healthcare, on impact investing, on real assets in

Mentorship and the future of finance talent

Mar 17 2025 20 mins

Mentorship is a critical driver of success in finance, especially in Africa, where diverse talent pipelines and investment challenges shape the industry. In this episode, we begin our three-part New Faces of Finance miniseries. Joining us is Doris Odit Achenga, founder of Odit Frontier Partners, who shares her insights on fostering emerging talent, navigating investment landscapes

Inside the semi-liquid fund boom

Mar 06 2025 10 mins

No development has impacted the private equity market over the past year like the rise of semi-liquid and evergreen funds. Semi-liquid/evergreen funds are similar to mutual funds in that investors can buy in one day, sell another day and access a seeded portfolio from the moment capital is invested. GPs seemed to launch some kind of semi-liquid fund on a weekly basis last year, wit

The energy transition’s next era

Mar 03 2025 24 mins

This episode is sponsored by Nuveen and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners The state of renewable energy is a series of contradictions. On the one hand, solar panels are cheaper, but they may not stay that way with the threat of tariffs from the incoming Trump Administration. Distributed energy and behind-the-meter power generation are promising, but there are persistent structural

Secrets to raising a first-time fund in 2025

Feb 25 2025 19 mins

What does it take for new teams – first-time GPs and spin-out GPs – to succeed in today’s environment? That's a question we put to Warren Hibbert, founder and managing partner at Asante Capital, a placement agent and advisory firm. Asante has raised capital for firms including GRO Capital, eevolve, Maguar Capital Partners and Artá Capital. The firm was the second-most active

NZ Super on why a total portfolio approach can both help and hinder PE portfolios

Feb 19 2025 24 mins

California Public Employees' Retirement System, the US's largest public pension, last year introduced to its board a radically different method of investing: the total portfolio approach. TPA has already been adopted by multiple sovereign investors around the world, including Australia's Future Fund and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. In this episode, PEI Group Hong Kong burea

The ‘good boring’ approach to private credit

Feb 06 2025 21 mins

This episode is sponsored by Golub Capital Private credit has enjoyed massive growth for more than a decade, but there are real questions about what happens when conditions are less favourable. How can lenders that launched during the good times continue to succeed when the market changes? David Golub of Golub Capital knows from experience. Golub Capital was founded 30 years ago an

Is America’s energy transition safe in Trump’s hands?

Jan 02 2025 21 mins

This episode is sponsored by Nuveen and Igneo Infrastructure Partners With the American electorate recently handing the White House back to Donald Trump, it seems like an opportune time to unpack what it could all mean for the infrastructure asset class – in particular, the US commitment to renewables and the energy transition. Trump is, after all, the man who previously removed

Peeling back the onion on secondaries in 2024 – literally

Dec 30 2024 43 mins

Please enjoy this crossover episode from Secondaries Investor's Second Thoughts podcast, which recently moved to its own channel. To continue getting new episodes, subscribe at secondariesinvestor.com/podcast or search for Secondaries Investor's Second Thoughts wherever you like to listen. It's common to peel back the onion on key events and trends seen across financial markets. As

A golden era for opportunistic lending

Dec 17 2024 24 mins

This episode is sponsored by Sculptor Capital Management The last 24 months have been a period of uncertainty and volatility in credit markets, with rising inflation and higher interest rates putting borrower capital structures under pressure and making it difficult for lenders to price risk. These headwinds have proven challenging for mainstream lenders. But for opportunistic cred