J.P. Morgan Asset Management - Global Real Assets Launches New Dedicated Direct Real Asset Investment Platform

NEW YORK, April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- J.P. Morgan Asset Management Global Real Assets ("GRA") today announced the launch of Tactical Direct Investments ("TDI"), a dedicated cross-real assets group within GRA to help further meet client demand for direct and co-investment real asset opportunities across the risk/return spectrum and around the world. 

Under the leadership of Avik Mukhopadhyay, Head of Global Real Assets Tactical Direct Investments, the TDI team will help clients access new opportunities by leveraging the global investment capabilities of the $82 billion in AUM GRA platform and GRA's long and successful track record of direct investing. GRA currently manages or advises more than $17 billion of direct and co-investment transactions globally on behalf of clients. 

"Institutional investors are increasingly seeking to complement their real asset fund holdings with direct investments. However, for both the investor and the investment manager, direct investing is fundamentally different from fund investing," said Joe Azelby, Global Head of Real Assets.  "The formation of Tactical Direct Investments and the appointment of Avik Mukhopadhyay will help us meet this growing investor demand and help clients optimize their real asset portfolios to meet their specific investment goals."

Avik Mukhopadhyay said, "In many ways, Tactical Direct Investments is leveraging what the group has been doing exceptionally well for more than four decades.  And by creating a dedicated team focused on providing bespoke investment solutions – be it co-investments, direct single asset transactions or thematic separately managed accounts –  for clients across real estate, infrastructure and maritime/transports globally, we hope to both deepen our relationships with existing clients and help new clients achieve their individual goals."

About J.P. Morgan Asset Management - Global Real Assets

J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets has more than $79 billion in assets under management and approximately 400 professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as of September 30, 2014. With a 40-plus-year history of successful investing, J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets' broad capabilities provide many of the world's most sophisticated investors with a global platform of real estate, infrastructure, maritime/transport and energy strategies driven by local investment talent with disciplined investment processes consistently implemented across asset types and regions.  The Global Real Assets team is part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Alternatives Investments business, which collectively manages over $120 billion in client assets across real assets, hedge funds, credit and private equity.

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