Our 2026 Investment Professionals Remuneration Report delivers a detailed view of compensation trends across private capital markets in the UK and Europe. Drawing on data from a broad cross-section of investment firms and professionals, this year’s report captures a market that is stabilising, with renewed momentum following a period of recalibration.
Exit isn’t a twelve‑month sprint; it’s a five‑year operating strategy that starts the day you invest. By embedding exit thinking early, backing management teams that can deliver future relevance, and pressure‑testing the story through a buyer’s lens, operating partners turn value creation and exit readiness into the same disciplined, long‑term agenda.
At PEI’s Operating Partners Forum Europe in London, Finatal’s Max Yish chaired a panel asking where AI is truly delivering in HR and talent, and where it still falls short. AI is driving clear gains in speed, productivity and time-to-hire, but its impact on hiring quality, operating models and leadership decision-making is uneven, with the most advanced use cases sitting beyond HR in engineering and go-to-market teams and many projects still failing because execution, not ambition, is the real constraint.
Finatal has been named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026 - our third consecutive year on the list.
Finatal's Private Capital & Operating Partner practice sits at the point where dealmaking meets value creation - where investment theses…
By Max Yish, Director of Data and Tech Leadership, Finatal Anthropic’s decision to deploy Mythos through Project Glasswing, alongside AWS, Apple, Google,…
Product specialists are fast becoming essential in private wealth, helping GPs translate complex strategies for advisers, ensure consistent messaging across products, and feed real client insight back into investment teams so firms can scale effectively in an increasingly sophisticated wealth market.
