The Team Powering Our Platform
Talent by the Numbers
63
New team members hired in 20253
16 %
Average promotion rate over past five years3
Apprenticeship in Action
53
Junior team members (36% of Investor populations) working on live deals25
1 to 2
Average junior to senior deal team ratio25
Building Our Team
91 %
Offer acceptance rate26
84.2 Days
Average Time to Hire26
Fewer than 1 in 40
Qualified candidates ultimately received an offer in 202526
Our Edge is Our People
Powered by People
Our edge is human. We hire for deep industry judgement, train for decision quality, grow through apprenticeship, and scale with technology. This model is intentional and the results pay it forward: faster decisions, tighter underwriting, and sustainable performance across cycles.
Our commitment to talent goes beyond being best-in-class; it’s about cultivating the environment where excellence, purpose, and long-term value intersect.
Guided by our three cultural pillars, we create the conditions for our people to excel:
- Uncompromising Excellence: As the steward of Liberty’s capital, we never compromise in our pursuit of excellence. Uncompromising Excellence in how we think, execute, and lead.
- Intellectual Vitality: We are committed to meritocracy, fostering opportunities for everyone to contribute and thrive. Intellectual Vitality in how we challenge, debate, and learn.
- Capital as a Force for Good: We use our influence, capital, and energy to drive a better future. Capital as a Force for Good in the opportunities we capitalize, the standards we uphold, and the people we develop.
Talent Strategy
Expertise Built for the Long Term
In an era where private capital plays an increasingly critical role, our talent strategy is inseparable from our investment strategy. The judgment, resilience, and expertise of our people drive decisions that shape capital deployment, reputation, and long-term enterprise value. We invest heavily in developing our team to perform under pressure, at scale, and across market cycles.
A defining feature of today’s capital markets is the depth of expertise private capital participants bring. Unlike traditional lenders or public market investors, private capital participants are deeply embedded in specific industries, and can evaluate and support complex opportunities that conventional underwriting might overlook.
Their insights, strategic networks, and operational guidance enable them to actively influence the success of the businesses they back, creating long-term partnerships that deliver far more than transactional value.
With a long-term capital base and long-term investment horizon, LMI is uniquely positioned to benefit from the migration of talent from traditional financial institutions. To support this advantage, we prioritize a positive, high-performance work environment where employees enjoy collaborating and are encouraged to bring forward their best ideas. We offer more than just a job or competitive compensation—we provide an opportunity to join a team that values integrity, purpose, and a shared drive to succeed.
At LMI, we are dedicated to creating an environment where every individual feels a sense of belonging and is valued for their unique contributions. Embracing diversity, we recognize that our differences power innovation, inspire creative solutions, and drive tangible business outcomes. With a culture that encourages every voice to be heard, thoughtful risk-taking is embraced, and we view failures as valuable learning opportunities. Our goal is to provide each person with the opportunity to reach their full potential and deliver excellence for Liberty and all our partners.
Our Apprenticeship Model
How Judgment is Built
Our apprenticeship model is core to how we develop talent and is executed in-house. Junior investors don’t just observe deals, they own real work early, contributing directly to decisions. That ownership is matched with coaching from senior investors who are responsible for continuously raising the bar on investment excellence and preparing the next generation. Judgment is built through repetition, accountability, and high standards. Over time, this system instills maturity and decision quality. It develops investors who are commercially astute and represent LMI with integrity and depth amidst a rapidly changing investment landscape.
Beyond hands-on experience through our apprenticeship model, we're building world-class technical training through the LMI Institute, our in-house Learning & Development offering. Through the Institute, we partner with industry-leading development vendors to design custom-curated technical training across all our investment products. We are also partnering with highly regarded entities to hone the skills of our junior and mid-level talent on critical themes such as modeling, negotiation, communication skills, leveraging AI, and many more. Our size and scale give us the unique advantage of providing individualized and cohort training experiences, benefiting from our industry-leading in-house and external experts.
Preserving Our Culture Through Rapid Growth
Growth Without Compromise
We expanded significantly in 2025, adding 68 new team members across LMI.3 Today, half of our employee base has joined within the past five years. As we scale, we remain intentional about preserving and strengthening the culture that sets us apart. We uphold a high-performing culture and intellectual vitality within our organization, one that is upheld through: goal-setting; feedback loops, including sentiment surveys; and open dialogue with senior leadership.
We emphasize transparency and clarity on performance standards and provide our employees and managers with tools to foster meaningful discussions on development. In 2025, LMI introduced a capability model developed in close partnership with the LMI Leadership Team and with valuable employee input. Our capability model is a common set of behaviors and skills that align our individual efforts with our strategic goals.
Preserving culture at LMI is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about evolving thoughtfully to sustain a high-performance, high-integrity environment. The consistent presence of our leaders is reassuring to our teams, serves as an invaluable learning experience for our junior talent, and helps nurture the development of future leaders at LMI.
Our commitment to culture has resulted in LMI being named a Best Place to Work in Money Management for companies sized 100 – 499 employees three years in a row (2023, 2024, 2025).7
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