Andrew Harmstone is an Advisor to the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM, providing guidance on investments, portfolio management and client interaction for the GBaR strategy until his retirement at the end of 2024. He joined Morgan Stanley Investment Management in 2008 and has 42 years of industry experience. Andrew developed his asset allocation experience in the early stages of his career, during his years working at JP Morgan Investment Management (1986–1997). During this period, he also honed his skills using derivatives in an asset allocation context and was appointed a consultant to the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms investigating the 1987 Market Break. Andrew subsequently spent time with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, heading European Quantitative and Derivatives research, being voted 1st place in the 2004 Institutional Investor Survey for European Derivatives Research. Andrew received an M.A. in Business Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. (Honors) in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.