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PEI’s editorial team tackled the climate crisis, racial inequality, tax avoidance and everything in between this year.
Representatives from Blackstone, CalPERS and PSERS were among this year’s most quotable denizens of private equity.
PEI Media’s Spotlight podcast was downloaded more than 56,000 times this year, with discussions ranging from the pandemic to diversity to when and how to build an in-house IR team.
Private Equity International will be back on 4 January.
The question of whether the asset class really delivers outperformance or is simply a billionaire factory came to the fore in 2020 with professor Ludovic Phalippou's last word on the subject.
The tech-focused investor's chairman and chief executive admitted to tax evasion on almost $200m of assets in October.
An link between Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein cast a shadow over Apollo.
Presenting the top 10 investors who, amid lockdowns and remote working challenges, continued to back private equity GPs and their funds this year.
The polls are open for the 2020 Private Equity International Awards; see who made the shortlist and vote across 71 categories in the industry's most extensive set of global awards.
For GPs, teaming up with strategic buyers and tapping assets on smaller listed indices could lead to an increase in public-to-private deals over the next year, say industry practitioners.