Permira’s Tom Lister talks about the culture of the global firm, how sellers see Permira as a valuable partner, and how he has structured a successful leadership with his co–managing partner in London.

It’s becoming ever more complex to run a private equity fund back office. How do you take fund administration from paper pushing to a strategic asset? Michael Halloran, chairman and chief executive of NES Financial, explains.

Preqin statistics indicate that we are in a new golden era for private capital fundraising, not deals.

Deal market veterans discuss the tepid private equity deal volume of the second quarter of 2017, the importance of the Staples take-private, healthcare deals and the fate of interest deductibility.

A veteran fundraiser explains why middle–market fundraising seems to have flatlined, and where LPs are looking to invest as mega–GPs suffer capital “indigestion.”

While some institutional investors lament the relatively high cost of a private equity investment program, long-term participants in the asset class know that the main cause of underperformance isn’t fees—it’s the people running the fund. Three private equity experts discuss how best to evaluate an investment team in this webinar discussion.

The head of financial services investing for Pine Brook discusses the relatively light impact that technology has had on the sector thus far, and how private equity investors will back disruptive change in businesses such as mortgage finance.

A veteran fundraiser explains the fundraising and deal slowdown in Asia, particularly in China. Khalifa also describes a relatively buoyant VC fundraising market in Asia.

William Spiegel of Pine Brook Partners discusses the regulatory and interest rate dynamics impacting financial services investing today.

A veteran fundraiser explains which types of GPs are raising the most capital in Europe, why European LPs remain bullish on private equity, and how U.S. capital is flowing into the region.