Pulkit Sharma, CFA, CAIA Managing Director, is the Head of Alternatives Investment Strategy and Solutions (AISS) business, which is part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Pulkit and the AISS team is responsible for portfolio design and management of multi-alternatives investment solutions that span global alternatives such as private real estate, infrastructure, transport, alternative credit, private equity, liquid alternatives. In his role, he works with the firm’s investment, solutions, and research personnel and global investors such as insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, and wealth managers to build and manage investment solutions that utilize strategic and relative value investment frameworks across the alternatives spectrum. Pulkit serves as the Portfolio Manager for the Alternatives Access Fund, which is an actively managed Insurance Dedicated Fund that invests across private and public markets. Pulkit founded the private real assets portfolio strategy and solutions business for the firm’s institutional clients. Pulkit and the AISS team have helped global clients invest USD 8B+ across a diversified suite of alternatives strategies and solutions across the private and public continuum. Pulkit serves on the firm’s Alternatives Solutions Investment Committee, Asset Management Innovation Steering Group, and Long-term Capital Market Assumptions (LTCMA) Editorial team. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2011, he has worked in the Middle East and Asia in real estate development. Pulkit is a member of the Global Exchange Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. Pulkit holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and an M.S. in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.