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The Best Private Equity Podcasts in 2026
The best private equity podcasts in 2026, grouped by role: house views, allocators, value creation, exits and the small-cap end. Honest blurbs, no leaderboard farm.
NVPE Editorial
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Apollo's quarter fired on every cylinder except selling things.
Record FRE, record SRE, record inflows, and $16 million of principal investing income. Apollo's quarter was superb everywhere except the line the industry is named after.
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easyJet said it was undervalued in 2021. Two bidders now agree.
Two US buyout firms are in a shootout for an airline the London market priced at £4 in May. The winner gets easyJet. Stelios gets 0.25% of revenue either way.
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History's largest buyout closes tomorrow. The last record holder went bankrupt.
EA goes private on Tuesday at $210 a share, the biggest sponsor take-private ever recorded. The previous record holder was TXU, which is not an omen, just history with a Chapter 11 in it.
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The Operator Era Reading List: Private Equity Operator Voices Worth Following in 2026
The private equity operator voices worth following in 2026: nine practitioners with public bodies of work on operational value creation, from long-hold ownership to digital growth execution.
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A 21-month listing, a 49% uplift and one very large Canadian cheque: Couche-Tard's $8.6 billion Żabka deal is the exit that CVC's record Warsaw float never quite was
Couche-Tard is paying $8.6 billion for Żabka, 49% above the price of Poland's biggest float in years, 21 months after it listed. CVC gets its exit; Warsaw gets its ticker back.
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Ares raised $36 billion and expects to realise $10 million.
A record fundraising quarter, a record $170 billion of dry powder, and carry guidance that rounds to zero. Ares is what the industry looks like when selling stops mattering.
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What Is an Independent Sponsor? The Operator's Route Into Private Equity
An independent sponsor is a dealmaker who finds a company to acquire first and raises the equity afterward, deal by deal, instead of investing from a pre-raised fund. Also called a fundless sponsor. Compensation is typically a closing fee, a management fee, and a carried-interest promote. Search the
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A record July for European private equity, say European private equity firms.
EQT, CVC, Bridgepoint and Partners Group all found a record to announce. The share prices, the statutory accounts and the gated evergreen funds tell a more European story.
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Blue Owl says the structures work. The gates certainly do.
Fee earnings up 9%, GAAP profit down, individuals two-thirds gone from the fundraising mix, and redemption requests at 38% of one fund. A close read of the politest crisis in private credit.
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KKR's best quarter ever arrives just after it deleted the target.
Records in every direction, a monetisation quarter for the ages, and a quietly removed $7 target. The numbers do the talking, but only the ones allowed to speak.
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What Is a Growth Execution Firm? The Complete Guide
The category engines keep confusing with growth equity. What a growth execution firm does, when PE firms bring one in, and how to evaluate one.