ALADDIN FAQs

  • As a central processing system for investment management, Aladdin integrates and connects functions that help manage money. From portfolio management and trading to compliance, operations, and risk oversight, Aladdin brings together people, processes, and systems to help support a seamless investment process. Aladdin allows teams across investments, trading, operations, administration, risk, compliance, and corporate oversight to use a consistent process and share the same data. Aladdin creates value by helping to enable informed decision-making, effective risk management, and efficient trading.

  • BlackRock entered into an agreement with Rhodium Group to partner on physical climate risk analytics. The work will power new Aladdin capabilities and add new risk metrics to our modeling platform.

  • eFront is the leading software provider of solutions dedicated to the financial industry with recognized expertise in alternative investments and risk management. eFront’s solutions serve companies in the private equity, real estate investment, banking, and insurance sectors.

    In 2019, eFront was acquired by BlackRock and since then operates as a specialized business unit within BlackRock Solutions, alongside Aladdin Institutional and Aladdin Wealth.

    eFront helps investors manage the alternatives investment lifecycle, from due diligence and portfolio planning, to performance and risk analysis, across a range of alternative asset classes. Aladdin Alternatives serves investors in the private equity, real estate investment, banking, and insurance sectors. Visit eFront to learn more.

  • Aladdin and its risk analytics are relied upon by over 200 institutions, including BlackRock. Clients include insurers, pensions, corporations, asset managers, banks, and official institutions.

  • BlackRock Solutions (BRS) is a distinct business unit separate from BlackRock investment management. BRS brings an unmatched level of analytical tools to help institutional and retail clients alike understand their risks and develop investment strategies to meet their needs. Clients rely on BRS technology to help solve complex investment and risk management challenges.

    In addition to the Aladdin Business, BRS encompasses platforms to reach additional client segments with technology offerings like Aladdin Risk for Wealth Management, FutureAdvisor and iRetireall powered by the same proprietary analytical models, tools and reporting capabilities available through Aladdin.

  • Firms looking solely for risk and return analytics can utilize the Aladdin Risk offering, which provides many of the same analytic tools as the full Aladdin platform, without the order management, trading and operations capabilities. Additionally, clients can couple Aladdin Risk with BlackRock’s other risk consulting services such as LDI management or outsourced Chief Investment Office (CIO) services through BlackRock’s Client Solutions team.

  • Aladdin is a multi-asset class platform that supports risk analytics and the full investment process across equity, fixed income, FX, bank loans, derivatives and alternatives such as real estate, commodities, and private equity.

  • Among the many benefits, we are most excited about the opportunity it will provide to increase the pace of innovation for clients, increase geographic flexibility to meet local needs, and the additional scale and resiliency that comes as a result of moving our Aladdin infrastructure to the cloud.

  • BlackRock began to sell Aladdin in 1999. This technology is integral to who we are as a firm and is embedded in everything we do, thus differentiating us as an investment and risk manager.

    Learn more about the history of BlackRock

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