Alternatives are becoming core

Alternatives are essential

As allocations grow, alternative investments play an increasingly critical role in portfolios. The need for an approach that is scalable, disciplined, integrated, technology-enabled, transparent and based on fiduciary partnership has never been greater.
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Championing a new era of alternatives

Growing demand and complexity in private markets calls for a new era of alternatives to overcome long-standing hurdles for investors. We are helping to evolve the industry to overcome those challenges and defining a new kind of partnership for our clients.

2025 Private Markets Outlook

Hear from our private markets senior leaders as they discuss the past year, explore where the opportunities are for each asset class, and take a close look at some of the structural shifts that are reshaping our world.
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BlackRock is tomorrow’s alternatives platform

Our US$327.5B platform is designed to deliver outperformance with true partnership across a range of investment solutions in: real estate, infrastructure, private equity, credit, hedge funds and alternative solutions. We continue to innovate, leveraging our technology, our scale and our fiduciary model to better serve our clients.
Access to the best opportunities
Access to the best opportunities
Our alternative investors supplement their networks and know-how with best-in-class ideas from BlackRock’s other 5,000-plus investors around the world.
Greater transparency
Greater transparency
We use advanced technology to help build stronger portfolios – we track 100,000 unique companies and 50,000 unique properties on eFront.
An integrated view
An integrated view
We provide you with a whole portfolio view so you have a deeper understanding of how alternatives impact the rest of your portfolio.

Alternative investment strategies

Private Debt
Discover leveraged finance, multi-strategy and credit solutions

Opportunities include: direct lending, opportunistic, special situations, distressed

Hedge Funds
Solutions across equity, event driven, relative value global macro and risk

Opportunities include: long/short equity, event driven, relative value, global macro, risk premia, hedge fund solutions

Infrastructure
Learn about BlackRock's infrastructure platform

Opportunity include: infrastructure equity, infrastructure debt, infrastructure solutions, listed infrastructure

Multi-Alternatives
Meet BlackRock’s multi-alternative portfolio management team

Opportunities include: diversified alternatives, alternatives solutions

Private Equity
Explore direct, co-investment, primary and secondary private equity

Opportunities include: direct co-investments, primaries, secondaries, open-end direct, direct

Real Estate
Learn about BlackRock's real estate platform

Opportunity include: real estate debt, real estate equity, real estate securities

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