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(Jan 30, 2025) Danske Bank has selected Aladdin Wealth to enhance its advisory services and deliver a unique offering in the Nordics. Danske Bank is evolving its platform through more personalization and holistic analysis across the whole portfolio.

(Jan 27, 2025) Aladdin Wealth™ is integrating technology by Investment Navigator to enhance its cross-border compliance and product suitability capabilities, enabling advisors to make more informed portfolio recommendations for end investors.

Samuel Rundle, Head of Financial Markets Investments, Ingka Investments, and Tarek Chouman, Global Head of the Aladdin Client Business, discuss portfolio diversification, sustainability, and the potential impact of AI on the financial industry.

Aladdin® Academy is an eLearning experience available for all Aladdin Enterprise and Risk clients—equipping teams with the knowledge and skills to unlock the full potential of the Aladdin platform, at any stage of the client journey.

Christopher Napoli, Head of Wealth & Asset Management, Snowflake, and Richard Newman, General Manager, Aladdin Studio, discuss the key role of data, the advancements in technology for better data sharing, and the importance of data integrity.

(Dec 16, 2024) Allianz Bank selected Aladdin Wealth™ to strengthen their advisory services. With the integration, Allianz continues innovating their platform to scale personalization and respond more efficiently to clients’ needs in changing markets.

Solve for sustainable investing needs with Aladdin. The Aladdin® platform gives you the analytics and tools you need to navigate the risks and opportunities of sustainable investing.

(Dec 10, 2024) Saphyre, Inc., has announced a partnership with Aladdin, BlackRock's technology platform which unifies the investment management process. This collaboration aims to enhance efficiency, reduce operational risks, and simplify workflows.

Created in partnership with the Financial Times, this white paper explores how insurers benefit from tech that integrates ABOR and IBOR data, enabling them to scale, manage risk, and make more informed decisions.

The eFront® Insight performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of 9,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

(Dec 2, 2024) MAPFRE AM, is taking a step forward in its digital transformation – a key pillar of the company’s growth strategy – by adopting BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, marking the first insurance company in Spain to implement the technology.

As investment management continues to evolve at an accelerated pace, building a strong data foundation is key to unlocking strategies to generate alpha, operate more efficiently, and scale for growth.

(November 20, 2024) Liontrust implements BlackRock’s Aladdin® technology, in collaboration with BNY, to deliver scalable portfolio and risk management capabilities that benefit their investment teams and clients.

Adrian Crockett, General Manager, Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, and Syril Smith Garson, Head of Product for AI, discuss the capabilities needed to support copilots—and explore the future of data integration and multimodal AI.

(Nov 15, 2024) CaixaBank Private Banking launched Advisory GPS, integrating the Aladdin Wealth platform’s capabilities to create a unique offering in Spain to drive advisor efficiency and deliver personalized investment proposals to more clients.

Learn how streamlined operations, centralized data and improved efficiency is helping Adepa stay ahead of asset servicing trends.

Adrian Crockett, General Manager, Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, and Syril Smith Garson, Head of Product for AI, discuss the future of user interfaces and experiences, the concept of copilots, and the importance of building trust in AI.

(Oct 8, 2024) eFront Provider is a collaborative platform for private markets, enabling asset servicers to offer asset managers a modern fund servicing experience—with real-time views into their private markets investor, fund, and investment data.

Asset servicers and asset managers have faced tech and data challenges when collaborating across the private markets ecosystem. eFront Provider offers a common language between asset servicers and asset managers, enabling seamless collaboration.

In this new era of big data, institutional investors are looking to do more. Aladdin Copilot serves to strengthen the connective tissue across the platform—unlocking new efficiencies and uncovering actionable information faster.

The eFront® Insight performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of almost 8,900 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

In the third installment of our webinar series with FT FundFire, experts discuss a dynamic approach to portfolio management and the role of tech in navigating an evolving risk landscape.

Hear from experts on the transformative power of data, the challenges asset managers & asset owners face in volatile markets, and how a comprehensive portfolio view can provide organizations with a solid foundation for enhanced investment management.

In partnership with the Financial Times, this webinar explores the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on investment management and the ways institutional investors are adapting.

This webinar provides an overview of the technology, new capabilities, and coverage of climate analytics. We outline how our platform can assist in navigating climate risks and opportunities.

As pensions face rising challenges, from geopolitics to industry disruptions and natural disasters, understanding exposures to specific countries, sectors, and issuers across multi-asset portfolios has never been more important.

Ted Truscott, Chief Executive Officer, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and Sudhir Nair, Global Head of Aladdin, discuss the evolution of asset management, client expectations and how technology is impacting investment management processes.

(July 23, 2024) Aladdin® by BlackRock was selected by Franklin Templeton to unify its investment management tech across public market asset classes to reduce complexity and support business growth.

The eFront® Insight performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of almost 8,700 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

(July 12, 2024) AIA announces a new agreement with BlackRock and BNY, as AIA transforms its investment platform, to support the company’s long-term investment programme.

(June 30, 2024) BlackRock, Inc. has agreed to acquire Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data, bringing together Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform.

Our Aladdin Client, Engineering, and Product leaders explore the implications of emerging technologies via the foundational role of data in AI development, the evolution of cloud computing, and the potential of blockchain beyond cryptocurrency.

Aladdin® Climate is a standalone solution that enables clients to evaluate climate-related risks and opportunities within their investment portfolio, across a broad range of public asset classes.

Priya Gopalan, Head of ESG, Northstar Group, and Hui Min Loh, Aladdin Alternatives Business Development, discuss the recent ESG trends in APAC as well as Northstar’s ESG journey and how they have evolved their ESG practices with technology.

Our Aladdin Client, Engineering, and Product leaders discuss how modern tech forces are reshaping the future for asset managers and owners—and the importance of maintaining a stable and performant platform while innovating.

Martin Huber, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, and Pia Schaefer, Global Head of Value Engineering for the Aladdin Client Business, discuss the concept of “change alpha”.

Paola Papanicolaou, Executive Director, Group Head of Transformation Area, Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. discusses what innovation means to Intesa Sanpaolo, how they leverage technology to face change and how DEI is part of their core business.

We’re on the cusp of seismic change—with tech reshaping our lives and the way we do business. From GenAI to digital assets, these shifts create a future of unknowns but also opportunity. Explore our vision for the next era of innovation.

As the evolution of investment management accelerates, tech must keep pace not only to maintain efficient operational controls, but also the ability to expand into & support new asset classes, the focus on alpha generation, and your competitive edge.

Royal London Asset Management, adopts BlackRock’s Aladdin technology platform, which HSBC will leverage to manage the fund manager’s middle office.

The eFront® Insight performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of 8,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

Chris Scott-Hansen, Managing Director, Associate Director of Consulting Group, Head of Trading & Managed Solutions, Morgan Stanley, and Woo Fung Kwong, Managing Director, Chief Strategic Advisor to Aladdin discuss risk management in the wealth space.

Amid growing enthusiasm for private investments, asset managers' success hinges on their ability to gather and master vast amounts of data. Adopting the right investment platform that unifies public and private investments is key.

Candace Shaw, Senior Managing Director, Deputy Chief Investment Officer & Chief Operating Officer, SLC Management, shares her thoughts about data management practices, the complexity of legacy systems, and where she sees future growth opportunities.

Kunal Khara chats with Victor Anderson about the versatility of Aladdin and how it offers a comprehensive and consistent platform that enables users to have a single source of data for their portfolios across multiple asset classes.

A data-driven approach empowers institutional investors to become storytellers to trusted partners and stakeholders. Especially for insurers, data acts as the raw material for competitive innovation, risk management, and decision-making power.

Combining quantitative survey data collected in the 2022 campaign carried out during 2023 and qualitative insights from our stakeholders, this research paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse surrounding ESG reporting in private markets.

(Pensions & Investments)BlackRock has launched a private preview of its first generative AI powered "co-pilot" for 10 clients of eFront, a wholly owned software platform under BlackRock's Aladdin umbrella.

A conversation between Jason Wild, Vice President, CEO Co-Innovation and Customer Engagement of Microsoft, and Lance Braunstein, Managing Director, Aladdin, on how BlackRock and Microsoft are continuously redefining fintech through.

For an industry built on liability containment and risk management, the current state of play is a potpourri of challenges and opportunities.

Both the volatility and bid-ask spreads in the gilt market have nearly doubled over the last two months.

Empowering scalability & growth through uncertainty. The ecosystem, connectivity, and true partnerships that technology brings are, in fact, what will help determine success during a continued period of market volatility.

We are in the midst of one of the largest, and most important, social movements in our civilization’s history. It’s a movement that involves not only individuals at the local level but the totality of our global community.

From automation to machine learning & natural language processing, AI has been a part of BlackRock’s DNA for years. Now, introducing a new generation of private markets technology - eFront Copilot, available within eFront Insight.

In an environment of global market changes, evolving regulatory requirements, and uncertainty, banks–including central, investment, retail, commercial, and community banks–have an opportunity to lead. Aladdin tech can help you achieve that and more.

BNP Paribas’s Securities Services Global Head of Private Capital, Laurent Durdilly, shares how technology is helping them service their clients across the globe in a homogenous way.

“GenAI will change how people interact with technology…[and] likely change our clients’ expectations around the frequency, timeliness, and simplicity of our interactions.” Read the coverage in the Financial Times.

Syril Smith, Head of Product for Alpha, Research and AI platforms and Adam Salvatori, Head of AI, Alpha, and Digital Assets Engineering, share more about the combination of humans and machines and the accessibility of new technologies.

(Institutional Investor) Shifting macro factors are creating challenges for insurers’ portfolio management. The right tech platform is crucial to tackling these hurdles.

Mark Erickson, Global Head of BlackRock’s Financial Institutions Group, and Kunal Khara, Global Head of Aladdin Product, sat down to discuss this year's edition of the Global Insurance Report.

Adepa Global Services has chosen eFront® to help strengthen its position as a strategic provider for alternatives investors; eFront® allows Adepa to provide services to its clients in private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and real estate.

Arnaud Grapin, Head of IT and Organization at Mirova, shares how they have leveraged eFront to cover all real assets activities, as well as manage investor relationships and their portfolio companies.

Change is everywhere. And the need for a stable foundation that is built for the pace of change has never been more pressing.

Acumen’s Chief Financial Officer, Jacqueline Woo, shares how technology is helping them on their journey to bring together the power of markets and the power of philanthropy.

Naveen TV, Global Head, Data strategy and Integrations at J.P. Morgan Securities Services sits down with Tarek Chouman, Global Head, Aladdin Client Business to discuss the evolution of the relationship between asset servicers and their clients.

(Source: Reinsurance News) Portfolios are constantly evolving—and Aladdin’s technology is too. Learn how the platform is helping insurers unify their investment process and navigate a changing landscape.

The rapid evolution of financial technology is causing a shift towards advisory models to support personalized wealth management. Private banks must scale up and customize their offerings to meet demands of the next generation of investors.

A conversation on the opportunities and challenges that asset managers and asset owners face today with Meera Jessa and Ultan Geraghty, Aladdin’s Co-Heads of Client Engagement, AMRS.

Ardian’s Business Relationship Manager, Clément Perrin sits down with Marija Djordjevic, Head of eFront Research, to share more about their digital transformation journey and discuss how Ardian leverages technology to uncover investment opportunities

As insurers face operational challenges due to technology stacks built across multiple systems, and inconsistent data on thousands of spreadsheets, Aladdin technology helps clients transform.

(Institutional Investor) Asset managers face an inflection point in 2023, as shifts in markets, technology, and client expectations put firms through a stress test. But the right investment management platform can help them adapt and grow.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of 7,800 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

eFront Insight Research publishes the performance benchmarks for private market funds based on the cash-flow data up to March 31st, 2023.

Sue Zheng, Tech Fellow and Afwa Kandawire, Global Head of Aladdin Platforms share more about the platform developments (cloud, scale, API), product engineering and the fundamental pillars of engineering at BlackRock.

(PEI Magazine, Future of Private Equity Special Report) Managers are revamping their data management processes to cope with intensifying LP demands for better, faster reporting. Can technology & third-party providers help to relieve the burden?

Right now, the world is full of uncertainty. But even with all the unknowns out there—institutions (of all types) are asking similar questions, as they hunt for growth, scale, yield, and value.

The Aladdin® platform delivers integrated, service-oriented solutions to meet a myriad of oversight and investment management needs for pension plans. Learn how Aladdin® technology can help unlock opportunities.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,700 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

eFront Insight Research publishes the performance benchmarks for private market funds based on the cash-flow data up to December 31st, 2022.

The BlackRock Aladdin is proud to sponsor IASA Xchange! Our team will be available to discuss how Aladdin® unifies the insurance investment management process.

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business has been collaborating with eFront for over a decade to centralize its services on a single platform across multiple locations, streamline all operations and automate its workflows.

Learn how technology can help asset owners understand their exposures and respond accordingly from Melissa Ferraz, Managing Director and Global Head of Aladdin Alternatives at BlackRock, from her recent Keynote Interview with PEI.

EXEO Capital, the first general partner in Africa to deploy the eFront® platform has been leveraging the technology for over ten years to systemize, standardize, and centralize data as well as manage their entire deal flow on a single platform.

Discover how Aladdin® technology can help you differentiate, scale, and grow. Your talent. Your secret sauce. Our platform.

(Source: Forbes) Opinion piece that highlights how the right wealth tech solutions can help advisors deliver the greatest value for their clients.

Our Nordic footprint— serving the region with on-the-ground collaboration and support for over two decades—continues to provide a common language throughout organizations and across their whole portfolio—through our tech platform, Aladdin.

Automate private markets reporting with new eFront technology for asset owners & asset managers.

Everything you need in one place. eFront GP Suite, our private markets software, encompasses industry-tested tools to meet the needs of General Partner firms of All Institutions sizes.

Impacts from market uncertainty, geopolitical events, monetary policy intervention by central banks and other types of macro shocks now carry greater weight in influencing markets compared to the past decade.

Asset allocation is one of the most important portfolio decisions for investors. However, advisors who rely solely on asset allocation-based analyses may face inherent blind spots that negatively impact their clients.

When advisors address risk head-on with real-world scenarios, stress testing highlights the value of the relationship, encourages conversations that support long-term investing and helps align client goals with their risk tolerances.

Model portfolios are a popular way for advisors to reduce the time needed to manage individual portfolios so they can spend more time growing their overall practice while providing clients with the benefits of a professionally managed portfolio.

Risk exposures may dramatically vary among investments, even if those assets have the same overall volatility. Analyzing the underlying risk factors can increase your understanding of what’s really going on inside a portfolio.

Financial planning often involves managing multiple accounts. These accounts have specific risk profiles, but individually, they do not represent a client’s full risk picture or even total wealth. How can you gain more visibility?

Advisors use structured products in portfolio construction for reasons as varied as the attributes of these assets. Structured products can be included in a portfolio to enhance yield, get leveraged exposure or implement high conviction views.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. We’re all familiar with this phrase when helping clients understand investment returns. Ironically, this thinking doesn’t always translate into the portfolio construction process.

Professional investors are disciplined about monitoring and managing their risks daily. They adjust portfolios to manage risk as positions, cash and markets change.

A strong technology partner has a symbiotic relationship with wealth managers and shared goals for progressing their businesses. There should be an understanding of the specific needs of those businesses, such as knowledge of local regulations.

After years of historically low yields in public markets, private assets have significantly grown in importance for many investors and their portfolios.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q1 2022: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q4 2021: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

We looked at the eFront Insight universe of the 20-year history of quarterly returns of regional pools of LBO funds to quantify the correlation structure between different regions.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q1 2021: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

The fourth edition of Global Private Equity Performance Series is for the first time using the deal-level benchmarks in geographical performance analysis.

A detailed eFront Insight portfolio look-through dataset allowed us to look back into the 10-year long history of exits to analyze the evolution of holding periods and the disruptions the year of pandemic brought onto the private equity deal market.

At the close of Q3, 2020 has shown to be an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds globally recording an increase in aggregated multiple of invested capital (TVPI), rising from 1.58x in Q3 2019 to 1.63x in Q3 2020.

Fatia-Fatma Balit, Chief Technology Officer of BNPPAM, discusses how BNPPAM is leveraging technology to continuously transform their business and innovate for the pace of change.

AustralianSuper’s Chief Operating Officer, Peter Curtis, sits down for a lunchtime chat with Sudhir Nair, Global Head of the Aladdin Business, and shares his thoughts about the role technology has played in their recent transformation.

In 2002, Microsoft Treasury embarked on a digital journey to transform its business and bring efficiency to new levels. Integrating All Institutions investment tools onto one platform, centralizing data, and automating processes.

With Aladdin Risk and eFront, the SIO has comprehensive and granular investment data across public and private markets on one integrated platform for the first time.

Listen to the conversation between Arnab Mazumdar, Chief Digital Officer for BlackRock Alternative Investors and Tarek Chouman, Global Head of Business Development for the Aladdin Business.

Listen to Toru Masuda, Executive Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Norimasa Yoshida, Managing Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.

Creador's Executive Director, Sachin Goel shares their sustainability journey, how eFront technology is embedded in their investment processes and what's next for them.

Against a backdrop of elevated market pressures and evolving risk factors, insurance asset management has become more complex—while becoming more critical to success—than ever before. Your job has gotten bigger. You need a platform that can deliver.

Learn more how Blackrock’s eFront® technology, integrated with the Aladdin platform, helps provide a consolidated view of risk across public and private assets, portfolio optimization and integrated tools for alternatives management.

(Source: PIO) Singapore Life, Singapore, appointed an alliance formed between BlackRock Aladdin and Citi to provide asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back offices.

(Source: Aladdin) In a first for South Africa, STANLIB has onboarded Aladdin’s enterprise capabilities, BlackRock’s market leading investment technology to drive transformational growth by optimising the client experience and reducing complexity.

Alan Moore describes the use of DomainDriven Design for Asset Management at BlackRock and how we’re using it to customize, extend, and adapt Aladdin to meet the needs of clients.

BlackRock’s tech leaders share the trends affecting investors in the year ahead.

(Source: Business insider) In a tumultuous year for BlackRock, its powerful and widely used risk-analytics and portfolio-management technology Aladdin had a notably strong year, having won record new mandates.

Sudhir Nair chats with Victor Anderson about Aladdin’s win in the “Best IBOR” category. They discuss Aladdin as a world-class IBOR since day one, the importance of seamlessly integrated workflows, and the need for a whole portfolio solution.

(Source: CIO Magazine) In conversation with CIO, Sudhir Nair, Global Head the Aladdin Business, spoke about Aladdin's novel analytics and the possibility of augmenting the platform with alternative data and ESG data.

(Source: Financial times)Financial Times is reporting on money managers that are pouring money into investment platforms, trying to replicate BlackRock’s technology business, which has succeeded in bringing new streams of revenue in volatile markets.

(Source: CityWire) HSBC today announced the launch of its hybrid advisory service, HSBC Prism Advisory, in Asia, which uses BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth technology combined with HSBC personal advisers.

(Source: WatersTechnology) Aladdin has been awarded ‘Best IBOR’ as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, announced a partnership with Coinbase Global.

(Source: Insurance Asset Risk) Aladdin, BlackRock's ubiquitous risk technology, has served insurance clients for over two decades.

BlackRock announced that a consortium of LP and Funds of Funds have partnered in an effort to streamline and standardize ESG reporting for private markets leveraging ESG Outreach to accelerate the collection, analysis and reporting of ESG data.

(Source: Citisoft) An interview with Sudhir Nair, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the Aladdin Business, exploring BlackRock's evolving solutions strategy, operating model consolidation driven by M&A, the eFront acquisition, and more.

(Source: Microsoft) To facilitate the next chapter of growth and innovation for BlackRock and its Aladdin technology clients, BlackRock is moving its Aladdin investment platform to Microsoft Azure.

(Source: Central Banking) BlackRock's Aladdin has been awarded 'Best Risk Management Technology' as part of the 2022 Central Banking Awards.

As a client-centered technology, BlackRock’s investment management technology, Aladdin, is constantly evolving. Creating a successful design system for Aladdin is no different — it evolves over time according to user needs and expectations.

Today, BlackRock announces the availability of deal-level benchmark analysis within eFront Insight. Powered by data sourced directly from GPs

As a rising number of limited partners seek to grow their exposure to alternative investments, securing high-quality data and powerful analytics has become increasingly imperative to attaining top quartile performance.

In line with our commitment to continuously enhance eFront solutions based on our clients’ feedback, we are excited to announce the new UI/UX release to the eFront Invest solution.

July 22, 2021 –BlackRock has added new capabilities to its eFront Insight platform to help clients reach their sustainable investment goals. Built in partnership with the eFront Insight client community.

(Source: Citigroup) Citigroup Inc. reached an agreement to provide middle-office services for investment managers using BlackRock Inc.’s Aladdin Provider platform.

(Source: Business Wire) Northern Trust has entered into a strategic alliance with BlackRock to deliver enhanced operations, data, and servicing capabilities to mutual clients.

(Source: Business Insider) After completing its $1.3 billion acquisition of eFront in May 2019, BlackRock is integrating the alternative investment management software into the firm's crown jewel, Aladdin.

(Source: Funds Europe) Santander Asset Management has adopted Aladdin, BlackRock’s operations system for investment managers, as part of its digital transformation.

(Source: Brinker Capital) Brinker Capital, a leading investment management company focused on multi-asset class investing, it will begin using BlackRock’s state of the art risk management platform, Aladdin Wealth.

(Source: BlackRock) BlackRock partners with Rhodium Group to develop solutions to help clients better understand the impacts of climate risk.

(Source: Wall Street Journal) Rivals Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and BlackRock Inc. are going to be integrating customer data with each other in a new alliance both companies hope will jump-start growth.

(Source: Reuters UK) HSBC has signed a deal to offer BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management software to the bank’s wealthy customers, in a boost to the U.S. asset manager’s plans to squeeze money from technology by selling it to rivals.

The speed and depth at which you understand what’s happening in your firm is critical.

Understand the bigger picture with Aladdin Wealth™ analytics and help align portfolio goals with clients’ intended outcomes.

Client preferences span many dimensions, ranging from tax to sustainability to other values. Aladdin Wealth™ equips you to deliver personalized portfolios seamlessly and at scale for clients across programs and service models.

Differentiated advice is vital to growing a business. Aladdin Wealth™ brings a deeper level of intelligence to support higher-quality client interactions.

The eFront® Insight performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of 8,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

Combining quantitative survey data collected in the 2022 campaign carried out during 2023 and qualitative insights from our stakeholders, this research paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse surrounding ESG reporting in private markets.

From automation to machine learning & natural language processing, AI has been a part of BlackRock’s DNA for years. Now, introducing a new generation of private markets technology - eFront Copilot, available within eFront Insight.

Change is everywhere. And the need for a stable foundation that is built for the pace of change has never been more pressing.

Right now, the world is full of uncertainty. But even with all the unknowns out there—institutions (of all types) are asking similar questions, as they hunt for growth, scale, yield, and value.

For an industry built on liability containment and risk management, the current state of play is a potpourri of challenges and opportunities.

Empowering scalability & growth through uncertainty. The ecosystem, connectivity, and true partnerships that technology brings are, in fact, what will help determine success during a continued period of market volatility.

We are in the midst of one of the largest, and most important, social movements in our civilization’s history. It’s a movement that involves not only individuals at the local level but the totality of our global community.

A conversation on the opportunities and challenges that asset managers and asset owners face today with Meera Jessa and Ultan Geraghty, Aladdin’s Co-Heads of Client Engagement, AMRS.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of 7,800 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

eFront Insight Research publishes the performance benchmarks for private market funds based on the cash-flow data up to March 31st, 2023.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,700 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

eFront Insight Research publishes the performance benchmarks for private market funds based on the cash-flow data up to December 31st, 2022.

Both the volatility and bid-ask spreads in the gilt market have nearly doubled over the last two months.

Our Nordic footprint— serving the region with on-the-ground collaboration and support for over two decades—continues to provide a common language throughout organizations and across their whole portfolio—through our tech platform, Aladdin.

Automate private markets reporting with new eFront technology for asset owners & asset managers.

Everything you need in one place. eFront GP Suite, our private markets software, encompasses industry-tested tools to meet the needs of General Partner firms of All Institutions sizes.

Today, BlackRock announces the availability of deal-level benchmark analysis within eFront Insight. Powered by data sourced directly from GPs

As a rising number of limited partners seek to grow their exposure to alternative investments, securing high-quality data and powerful analytics has become increasingly imperative to attaining top quartile performance.

In line with our commitment to continuously enhance eFront solutions based on our clients’ feedback, we are excited to announce the new UI/UX release to the eFront Invest solution.

July 22, 2021 – BlackRock has added new capabilities to its eFront Insight platform to help clients reach their sustainable investment goals. Built in partnership with the eFront Insight client community.

Impacts from market uncertainty, geopolitical events, monetary policy intervention by central banks and other types of macro shocks now carry greater weight in influencing markets compared to the past decade.

Asset allocation is one of the most important portfolio decisions for investors. However, advisors who rely solely on asset allocation-based analyses may face inherent blind spots that negatively impact their clients.

When advisors address risk head-on with real-world scenarios, stress testing highlights the value of the relationship, encourages conversations that support long-term investing and helps align client goals with their risk tolerances.

Model portfolios are a popular way for advisors to reduce the time needed to manage individual portfolios so they can spend more time growing their overall practice while providing clients with the benefits of a professionally managed portfolio.

Risk exposures may dramatically vary among investments, even if those assets have the same overall volatility. Analyzing the underlying risk factors can increase your understanding of what’s really going on inside a portfolio.

Financial planning often involves managing multiple accounts. These accounts have specific risk profiles, but individually, they do not represent a client’s full risk picture or even total wealth. How can you gain more visibility?

Advisors use structured products in portfolio construction for reasons as varied as the attributes of these assets. Structured products can be included in a portfolio to enhance yield, get leveraged exposure or implement high conviction views.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. We’re all familiar with this phrase when helping clients understand investment returns. Ironically, this thinking doesn’t always translate into the portfolio construction process.

Professional investors are disciplined about monitoring and managing their risks daily. They adjust portfolios to manage risk as positions, cash and markets change.

A strong technology partner has a symbiotic relationship with wealth managers and shared goals for progressing their businesses. There should be an understanding of the specific needs of those businesses, such as knowledge of local regulations.

After years of historically low yields in public markets, private assets have significantly grown in importance for many investors and their portfolios.

Alan Moore describes the use of DomainDriven Design for Asset Management at BlackRock and how we’re using it to customize, extend, and adapt Aladdin to meet the needs of clients.

BlackRock’s tech leaders share the trends affecting investors in the year ahead.

As a client-centered technology, BlackRock’s investment management technology, Aladdin, is constantly evolving. Creating a successful design system for Aladdin is no different — it evolves over time according to user needs and expectations.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q1 2022: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q4 2021: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

The eFront® Insight Research performance metrics are calculated using the cashflow information of more than 7,300 unique private market funds and are provided on a net-of-fee basis.

We looked at the eFront Insight universe of the 20-year history of quarterly returns of regional pools of LBO funds to quantify the correlation structure between different regions.

Our latest Quarterly Report brings together two complementary sets of benchmarks for the global PE market as of Q1 2021: Fund-level transaction-based metrics and deal-level performance statistics derived from individual deal financials.

The fourth edition of Global Private Equity Performance Series is for the first time using the deal-level benchmarks in geographical performance analysis.

A detailed eFront Insight portfolio look-through dataset allowed us to look back into the 10-year long history of exits to analyze the evolution of holding periods and the disruptions the year of pandemic brought onto the private equity deal market.

At the close of Q3, 2020 has shown to be an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds globally recording an increase in aggregated multiple of invested capital (TVPI), rising from 1.58x in Q3 2019 to 1.63x in Q3 2020.

Naveen TV, Global Head, Data strategy and Integrations at J.P. Morgan Securities Services sits down with Tarek Chouman, Global Head, Aladdin Client Business to discuss the evolution of the relationship between asset servicers and their clients.

As insurers face operational challenges due to technology stacks built across multiple systems, and inconsistent data on thousands of spreadsheets, Aladdin technology helps clients transform.

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business has been collaborating with eFront for over a decade to centralize its services on a single platform across multiple locations, streamline all operations and automate its workflows.

EXEO Capital, the first general partner in Africa to deploy the eFront® platform has been leveraging the technology for over ten years to systemize, standardize, and centralize data as well as manage their entire deal flow on a single platform.

Creador's Executive Director, Sachin Goel shares their sustainability journey, how eFront technology is embedded in their investment processes and what's next for them.

In 2002, Microsoft Treasury embarked on a digital journey to transform its business and bring efficiency to new levels. Integrating All Institutions investment tools onto one platform, centralizing data, and automating processes.

With Aladdin Risk and eFront, the SIO has comprehensive and granular investment data across public and private markets on one integrated platform for the first time.

Listen to the conversation between Arnab Mazumdar, Chief Digital Officer for BlackRock Alternative Investors and Tarek Chouman, Global Head of Business Development for the Aladdin Business.

Listen to Toru Masuda, Executive Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Norimasa Yoshida, Managing Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.

Our Aladdin Client, Engineering, and Product leaders explore the implications of emerging technologies via the foundational role of data in AI development, the evolution of cloud computing, and the potential of blockchain beyond cryptocurrency.

Priya Gopalan, Head of ESG, Northstar Group, and Hui Min Loh, Aladdin Alternatives Business Development, discuss the recent ESG trends in APAC as well as Northstar’s ESG journey and how they have evolved their ESG practices with technology.

Our Aladdin Client, Engineering, and Product leaders discuss how modern tech forces are reshaping the future for asset managers and owners—and the importance of maintaining a stable and performant platform while innovating.

Martin Huber, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, and Pia Schaefer, Global Head of Value Engineering for the Aladdin Client Business, discuss the concept of “change alpha”.

Paola Papanicolaou, Executive Director, Group Head of Transformation Area, Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. discusses what innovation means to Intesa Sanpaolo, how they leverage technology to face change and how DEI is part of their core business.

Chris Scott-Hansen, Managing Director, Associate Director of Consulting Group, Head of Trading & Managed Solutions, Morgan Stanley, and Woo Fung Kwong, Managing Director, Chief Strategic Advisor to Aladdin discuss risk management in the wealth space.

Candace Shaw, Senior Managing Director, Deputy Chief Investment Officer & Chief Operating Officer, SLC Management, shares her thoughts about data management practices, the complexity of legacy systems, and where she sees future growth opportunities.

Syril Smith, Head of Product for Alpha, Research and AI platforms and Adam Salvatori, Head of AI, Alpha, and Digital Assets Engineering, share more about the combination of humans and machines and the accessibility of new technologies.

Mark Erickson, Global Head of BlackRock’s Financial Institutions Group, and Kunal Khara, Global Head of Aladdin Product, sat down to discuss this year's edition of the Global Insurance Report.

Ardian’s Business Relationship Manager, Clément Perrin sits down with Marija Djordjevic, Head of eFront Research, to share more about their digital transformation journey and discuss how Ardian leverages technology to uncover investment opportunities

Sue Zheng, Tech Fellow and Afwa Kandawire, Global Head of Aladdin Platforms share more about the platform developments (cloud, scale, API), product engineering and the fundamental pillars of engineering at BlackRock.

A conversation between Jason Wild, Vice President, CEO Co-Innovation and Customer Engagement of Microsoft, and Lance Braunstein, Managing Director, Aladdin, on how BlackRock and Microsoft are continuously redefining fintech through.

Fatia-Fatma Balit, Chief Technology Officer of BNPPAM, discusses how BNPPAM is leveraging technology to continuously transform their business and innovate for the pace of change.

AustralianSuper’s Chief Operating Officer, Peter Curtis, sits down for a lunchtime chat with Sudhir Nair, Global Head of the Aladdin Business, and shares his thoughts about the role technology has played in their recent transformation.