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.

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.