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In this podcast, part of PEI Group's Private Markets 2030 programme, guests from Brookfield discuss the opportunities and risks around artificial intelligence in infrastructure.

In this podcast, senior leaders from Francisco Partners and Platinum Equity discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with closing deals in 2025 and their forecasts for M&A in 2026.

The rise of AI is driving an unprecedented build-out of data, compute and energy infrastructure. Private investors with deep operational expertise are uniquely positioned to generate long-term value from this mega-trend, says Brookfield’s Stewart Upson.

PE firms earn sky-high returns not just for a portfolio company’s current performance, but its potential to thrive for years after their ownership. That’s why they need to build sustainable growth engines, and in this podcast, we discuss how to generate the kind of the growth that translates into those stellar IRRs.

As the year draws down, it’s time for PE firms and portcos to start charting a better path to growth in 2026. In this podcast, we look at the hard questions they need to be asking themselves around costs, working capital, benchmarks and accountability.

It may get plenty of lip service from the C-suite, but innovation is not simply an ideal. It’s a vital element of any growth strategy. In this podcast, we’ll share the rules of the road in building and sustaining growth-centric innovation.

Given the volatile and increasingly competitive market landscape, growth is crucial for any enterprise trying to withstand the storm. In this episode, we explore how to find and develop leaders bold enough to go on offense while others are waiting on defense.

Season four of this miniseries delves into how private fund managers are driving ‘weatherproof growth’ and thriving in a turbulent world amid macroeconomic uncertainty, political upheaval and the AI revolution.

Expect strong dealmaking and narrower valuations, says Erika López, corporate partner in Baker McKenzie’s Chicago office and a member of the Global Private Equity Practice.

In this fifth episode of the third season of the Disruption Matters podcast miniseries, we explore how technology can help at every stage of the talent management process.