Aladdin

Aladdin helps simplify risk and investment infrastructures, which can lead to increased efficiency and reduction in costs, with robust capabilities.

• Global consolidation of investment/risk platforms to help minimize overlapping technology and processes, and increase global consistency and transparency.
• Cashflow projections under a variety of scenarios to support income projection and income sensitivity analysis, investment activity planning, and economic capital analysis.
• Management of new business lines (e.g., expanding into asset management, broker-dealer or insurance to increase margins).
• A holistic outsourcing service, including middle office and investment accounting outsourcing services.

Aladdin provides standard views of full balance sheet exposures to allow consistent views of risk across security and loan assets and liabilities.

• Modeling for fixed-income securities, whole loans, MSR and other loans asset classes in a consistent framework.
• Modeling of deposit and securitized liabilities to show overall market and credit risks on the balance sheet.
• Full derivatives support including risk, trading, collateral management and central clearing.

Aladdin simplifies risk and investment infrastructures, which can lead to increased efficiency and reduction in costs.

• Aladdin supports global consolidation of investment/risk platforms to minimize overlapping technology and processes, and to increase global consistency and transparency.
• Ability to provide cashflow projections under a variety of scenarios to support income projection and income sensitivity analysis, investment activity planning, and economic capital analysis.
• Supports management of new business lines (e.g., expanding into third party asset management).
• Ability to offer a holistic outsourcing service, including middle office and investment accounting outsourcing services.

Aladdin provides a variety of analyses and functionality to support the regulatory needs of insurers.

• Analyses used to support Solvency II reporting, S&P and A.M. Best regulatory testing, and value-at-risk (including regulatory methods).
• Cash flow forecasting to support economic capital calculation and validation and regulatory reserve adequacy testing.
• Support for central clearing guidelines under Dodd-Frank for internally managed derivatives.
• Investment accounting services to meet financial reporting requirements under multiple cost bases.

Customizable and sophisticated risk analyses available through Aladdin and Aladdin Risk offerings.

• Aladdin teams work with pensions to build custom analysis to address the needs of multiple audiences: Investment Officers, Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Boards and Investment Committees.
• Assist in designing and producing stress tests (historical and hypothetical).
• BlackRock Solutions' Risk Advisory Services supplement reports with relevant commentary and analysis.

Aladdin provides the tools you need to support the full investment process.

• Perform portfolio construction, pro forma modeling, and "what-if" analysis.
• Support for asset allocation and risk budgeting analysis.
• Combine Aladdin's risk and portfolio modeling tools with a full order management and operations platform.

Custom analysis training and education through Risk Advisory Services.

• Risk-related educational topics and targeted training sessions.
• Customized training program for effective knowledge transfer, access to BlackRock sector specialists, product strategists, and other subject matter experts.
• Ongoing support for market-based themes and risk-based recommendations.