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Investment

The people who, make the returns.

From the analyst building the model to the investment director leading the deal, we place the professionals whose judgement your fund performance ultimately rests on.
The problems we solve

The most competitive hiring market in private capital.

“Every fund is chasing the same short list of proven deal professionals.”

The visible pool is small and heavily courted. Our advantage is the rest of the market: the strong performers who are not responding to approaches from firms they have never heard of, but will take a considered call from a specialist they know.

“Great modellers keep failing the commercial test at partner interview.”

Technical screening is the easy half. We assess commercial instinct, ownership mentality and how a candidate actually thinks about a deal, so the shortlist that reaches your partners is ready for the conversation that matters.

“We are hiring for a strategy we have not run before.”

New strategies demand people who have done the specific work: origination in a new market, a first secondaries allocation, a credit sleeve. Through our market mapping we identify who genuinely carries that experience, not who claims adjacency.

Roles we cover

Analyst to investment director, and beyond.

  • Investment Analysts and Associates
  • Vice Presidents and Principals
  • Investment Directors
  • Origination and Deal Execution Specialists
  • Portfolio and Asset Management Professionals
  • NAV Financing & Secondaries (via Carnegie NAVsec)
Adjacent expertise

Where an investment hire touches our other practices.

Carnegie NAVsec

Our dedicated division for NAV financing and secondaries, Associate to Partner, Europe and the US.

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Talent Advisory

Market mapping and compensation benchmarking before the search opens.

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Executive Search

Partner-led retained search for the most senior investment appointments.

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Private Equity

Our deepest sector specialism, across funds and portfolio companies.

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The practice lead

Led by a specialist in alternative investments.

Investment hiring at the sharpest end of the market is led by James Holm, Director, Alternative Investments, who also heads Carnegie NAVsec, our dedicated NAV financing and secondaries division.
With more than twenty years in financial services and executive search, James has placed investment professionals and built entire teams for top-tier firms across the UK, Europe and the US.
Leadership

Strong investment teams are built one person at a time, and the people worth building around always take the most convincing.

That conviction shapes how the practice works, under a Director with more than twenty years in financial services and executive search.

JH

James Holm

Director, Alternative Investments

20+

Years in private capital markets

80%

Mandates from repeat clients

2

Hubs: London and New York

2006

Working with investment teams since
Common questions

Investment recruitment, answered.

What investment roles does Carnegie recruit?
Deal, origination and investment professionals across the full investment lifecycle, from analyst and associate through vice president and principal to investment director, plus portfolio and asset management roles. Partner-level search in NAV financing and secondaries runs through Carnegie NAVsec.
Beyond technical screening, we assess commercial instinct, ownership mentality and how candidates think about deals, because that is what partner interviews test. Every candidate is interviewed by us before they reach your shortlist.
Yes. Through market mapping and direct market knowledge we identify professionals with genuine experience of the specific strategy, whether that is a new market, a secondaries allocation or a credit sleeve, rather than candidates claiming adjacency.
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