Deepika Sharma

Deepika (Dee) Sharma, CFA is the Head of Multi-Asset Custom Solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management, a leading provider of wealth and asset management solutions with over $1.3 trillion in AUM. Dee has almost two decades of experience in multi-asset investing, with expertise spanning portfolio management, manager selection, alternatives, and quantitative research. She has co-authored several publications featured in the Journal of Investing, ACM AI in Finance, and the Journal of Beta Investment Strategies.

Most recently, she was the Global Head of Manager Selection at BlackRock, with a focus on selecting external strategies across public and private markets. She grew the team to manage $250 bn in multi-manager portfolios leveraging over150 managers for institutional Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO), model portfolios, and wealth mandates globally. Prior to joining BlackRock, she served as Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of Investments at Knight Capital Group (which later became Astor Investment Management), where she earned the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Award for outstanding performance in a global macro hedge fund she built and managed. Earlier in her career, Dee held trading and research roles at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Roubini Global Economics, Old Hill Partners (Private Credit), and Nomura. She began her career as an analyst on the Structured Credit desk at Lehman Brothers in London. Dee has previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors at CFA Society New York. She has been recognized by the Bloomberg New Voices Program and the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for various industry groups including the AIMA Alternative Credit Council and Bretton Woods Committee. She is also a member of the Economic Club of New York. Dee holds a Masters in International Finance from Columbia University, where she was a teaching assistant for former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida.