The global real assets division of JP Morgan Asset Management has hired a new team member for the Americas.

JP Morgan Asset Management's global real assets division has brought in managing director and client portfolio manager George Ahl, focused on real estate in the Americas.

This is a new position in which Ahl will be based in New York and report to Alexia Gottschalch, managing director and head of business development and client strategy for real estate Americas within the group.

Ahl joins from Forum Partners, where he was a managing director. Before that, he spent over 16 years as a founding principal at M3 Capital Partners and has also worked at Crimson Capital, LaSalle Partners and Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.

JP Morgan Asset Management has around $1.7 trillion in AuM and serves institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals globally.

The firm's real estate Americas investment platform - part of the asset management group's real assets unit - has around $60 billion in gross assets under management.