Vivek Agarwalla
Head of Private Capital Solutions Consulting,
MSCI
Based in Singapore, Vivek partners with leading financial institutions across the region to advance best practices in portfolio construction, factor investing, risk management, and private markets analytics. He advises institutional allocators on implementing the total portfolio approach (TPA) integrating private and public market exposures into a unified investment framework and supports clients in building robust private assets programmes spanning private equity, private credit, real assets and infrastructure.
Over more than 13 years with MSCI, Vivek has worked with a broad spectrum of institutional clients. He previously supported banks and hedge funds while based in London, and now collaborates closely with asset owners, sovereign wealth funds, superannuation funds, central banks, and asset managers across APAC. His work spans the full investment lifecycle — from portfolio construction and factor exposure analysis to private asset transparency, cash flow forecasting, and liquidity risk management.
Before joining MSCI, Vivek was with Credit Suisse, where he focused on equity and credit structured trade pricing. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Delhi and a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Vivek is a CFA Charterholder and holds the Professional Risk Manager (PRM) designation. He has also earned the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate from GARP and the Certificate in Sustainable Finance from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership.




