Real Assets Investing to Private Equity

I'm a first year analyst at an investment bank in New York in a division that invests in relatively liquid real assets (not infrastructure) using the bank's balance sheet. It's a relatively small group and there are only a few other analysts in my class, but we completed training with the traditional investment banking analysts over the summer. The work involves exposure to international markets, asset backed securities, and niche modeling for the assets we look at. It's an interesting job, but not something I see myself staying in long term.

My question is what path would there be for someone in this kind of role with an undergraduate degree from a top Ivy League school to break into private equity pre-MBA?

While I realize there are plenty of similar topics in this forum, most of them are about breaking in without any sort of investment banking background. I don't have a traditional IB internship under my belt, but I work at an investment bank and have gone through IB training.

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