LGT Capital Partners

A dedicated HR Business Partner accompanies the candidate from first contact through offer. A loop that includes a live Executive Committee meeting and reference calls runs longer than a one- or two-round analyst process and sits across multiple weeks, so it should be slotted alongside applications at firms running shorter, assessment-centre-driven processes rather than against them.

Three internship formats feed alongside it:

• Off-cycle spring internship: up to four months, February or March start
• Summer internship: 10–12 weeks, around a July start
• Off-cycle fall internship: four to six months, around a September or October start

Outstanding analysts continue as Associates. The programs are geographically narrow (four hub cities only), and the off-cycle internships are multi-month European-style placements rather than the ten-week US-style summer window, so a candidate's geographic and timing flexibility decides which formats are even open before any application is made.

An international team of roughly 900 professionals is split across 16 offices, with the bulk of analyst and associate hiring concentrated in Pfäffikon (SZ), London, New York and Hong Kong. The platform is one of the larger global secondaries and fund-of-funds operations rather than a single-strategy direct-investing GP, so a junior here sees breadth across strategies and a steady mix of secondaries and co-invest deal flow – the right point of comparison when weighing this seat against narrower direct PE or single-strategy hedge fund roles.