The best private equity podcasts in 2026, ranked.
Private equity podcasts for deal teams, operating partners, and LPs. These are the shows behind The Carry, our weekly private equity newsletter, ranked by how often their episodes fed it over the last 12 weeks.
Best Private Equity Podcasts, 2026
- 1
How I Invest
Hosted by David Weisburd
20 of 22 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Traditional GP staking firms target blue-chip, middle-market asset managers with established fee streams, ignoring early-stage funds. Read the write-up
- 2
M&A Science
Hosted by Kison Patel
9 of 10 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Jerry Cedicci treats initial bank loan rejections as free underwriting audits rather than deal-killing dead ends. Read the write-up
- 3
Private Equity Funcast
Hosted by Jim Milbery and Devin Mathews
9 of 11 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Junior private equity associates and VPs routinely burn two to three hours every Monday manually logging meetings, notes, and pipeline updates into legacy systems. Read the write-up
- 4
Dry Powder
Hosted by Hugh MacArthur
3 of 3 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.7 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Ares built a dedicated 150-person private wealth sales team that matches the headcount of its 150-person institutional sales force across the US, Europe, and APAC. Read the write-up
- 5
Fund Shack
Hosted by Ross Butler
3 of 3 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.3 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Former APG private equity head John Renkema argues continuation vehicles create severe governance conflicts that general partners fail to manage properly. Read the write-up
- 6
Karma School of Business
Hosted by Sean Mooney
4 of 5 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Adi Filipovic arrived in the United States in December 1994 as a child refugee from war-torn Bosnia, settling with his family in Augusta, Georgia. Read the write-up
- 7
Capital Allocators
Hosted by Ted Seides
5 of 7 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 3.9 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Tech hyperscalers are borrowing vast capital across any available maturity and currency, prioritizing speed and compute capacity over debt pricing. Read the write-up
- 8
Private Equity Spotlight
2 of 2 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 6.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Sending broad confidential information memorandums (CIMs) to dozens of bidders produces weak exit outcomes compared to multi-year corporate relationship building. Read the write-up
How we rank
We write up every episode of the shows we cover. Over the 12 weeks to Oct 4, that came to 298 episodes from 30 shows, and we published 24 newsletters (The Throughline and The Carry). A show ranks higher when more of its episodes had ideas that made one of those newsletters.
The score is the share of a show's episodes that made a newsletter, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high (3 of 3 counts for less than 10 of 10). A show needs at least two episodes in the window to be ranked. The order updates every time the site rebuilds, and the window moves forward each Sunday. Nobody pays to be on this list, and it only includes shows we cover.
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What are the best private equity podcasts in 2026?
By our data, the top of the list is How I Invest, M&A Science and Private Equity Funcast. The ranking counts how often each show's episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4.
How is this list ranked?
By the share of each show's episodes whose ideas made The Throughline or The Carry, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high.