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    All Institutions

    Case in Point: Unified Investment Data Ecosystem

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Liontrust Implements Integrated Solution with Aladdin® & BNY

    (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.
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    All Institutions

    Humans in the loop; Robots on the team - Part 2

    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.
  • Esteban Nogueyra
    Asset Servicers

    Enhancing Efficiency: Adepa's Digital Transformation

    Learn how streamlined operations, centralized data and improved efficiency is helping Adepa stay ahead of asset servicing trends.
  • Adrian Crockett, Syril Smith Garson
    All Institutions

    Humans in the loop; Robots on the team

    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.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock Introduces eFront Provider

    (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.
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    Private Markets

    A Collaborative Platform for Private Markets

    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.
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    All Institutions

    Harnessing Innovation: GenAI by Aladdin

    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.
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    Webinars

    Harnessing Risk in Volatile Markets Through Tech

    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.
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    Webinars

    A Data-Driven Approach to Managing Market Uncertainty

    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.
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    Webinars

    Accelerating Innovation to Transform 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.
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  • Aladdin Climate Webinar
    All Institutions

    An Introduction to Aladdin Climate

    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.
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    Pension Funds

    Case in Point: Investment Tech for Pensions

    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.
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  • Ted Truscott and Sudhir Nair
    Asset Managers

    Asset Management in the Era of Continuous Change

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Franklin Templeton Selects Aladdin

    (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.
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    Private Markets

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q4 2023

    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.
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    Insurers

    AIA Announces Collaboration with BlackRock and BNY

    (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.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock to Acquire Preqin, Leading Private Markets Data Provider

    (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.
  • Tarek Chouman, Lance Braunstein, Kunal Khara, Syril Smith Garson
    All Institutions

    The Way Forward - Part 2

    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.
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    All Institutions

    Aladdin Climate brochure

    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.
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  • Priya Gopalan and Hui Min Loh
    Private Markets

    Advancing ESG with tech

    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.
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  • Tarek Chouman, Lance Braunstein, Kunal Khara, Syril Smith Garson
    All Institutions

    The Way Forward

    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 and Pia Schaefer.
    All Institutions

    Capturing “change alpha”

    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 and Victoria Kent
    Asset Managers

    Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

    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.
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    All Institutions

    The Way Forward: six tech forces driving transformation

    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.
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    All Institutions

    Uncover more with Aladdin® Risk

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Royal London AM Adopts Aladdin® using HSBC’s Middle Office services

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

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q3 2023

    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 and Woo Fung Kwong.
    Wealth Managers

    Morgan Stanley: The invisibility of the engine

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Are Asset Managers Ready for the New Data Demands of Private Markets?

    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 and Tara Kodali.
    Insurers

    SLC Management: Transforming through data

    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.
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    All Institutions

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2023 Winner’s Interview

    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.
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    All Institutions

    The decision is in the data. How accounting is evolving in an AI world

    Feb 5, 2024
    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.
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    Private Markets

    ESG Transparency in Private Markets

    Feb 2, 2024
    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.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock rolls out its first gen AI copilot to select eFront clients

    Dec 14, 2023
    (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.
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    All Institutions

    Technology for the pace of change

    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.
  • Kunal Khara
    Insurers

    From Albatross to Catalyst

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

    Sovereign Bond Liquidity Dynamics

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

    The instruments of change

    By Tarek Chouman
    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.
  • Melissa ferraz
    Private Markets

    ESG opportunities & risks in private markets

    By Melissa Ferraz
    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.
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    Private Markets

    Learn about generative AI by eFront. Introducing eFront Copilot.

    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.
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    Banks and Brokers

    Lead Through Uncertainty with Aladdin®

    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.
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    Asset Servicers

    BNP Paribas’s Securities Services business

    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.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock to roll out first generative AI tools to clients

    “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 and Adam Salvatori.
    All Institutions

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    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.
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    Insurers

    How Technology Can Offer Relief to Insurers’ Investment Teams

    (Institutional Investor) Shifting macro factors are creating challenges for insurers’ portfolio management. The right tech platform is crucial to tackling these hurdles.
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  • Mark Erickson and Kunal Khara
    Insurers

    Bringing to Life The Global Insurance Report

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Adepa chooses BlackRock’s eFront® to enhance its Private Assets Offer

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Mirova

    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.
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    Insurers

    The Decision is in the Data

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

    Acumen

    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.
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  • Naveen TV and Tarek Chouman
    Asset Servicers

    Technology transforming the asset servicer/asset manager relationship

    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.
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    Insurers

    Aladdin: Touching all aspects of an evolving investment ecosystem

    (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.
  • Venu Krishnamurthy
    Wealth Managers

    “Experiences must be seamless”: Three trends shaping Wealth Tech

    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.
  • Meera Jessa and Ultan Geraghty
    All Institutions

    Riding The Wave or Getting Caught in The Undertow

    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.
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  • Clement Perrin and Marija Djordjevic
    Private Markets

    Live from Paris: A Conversation with Ardian

    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
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    Insurers

    Driving meaningful business transformation for insurers

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    A Unified Investment Platform Brings Scalability and Growth

    (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.
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    Private Markets

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q1 2023

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Insight private equity benchmarks released for Q1 2023

    eFront Insight Research publishes the performance benchmarks for private market funds based on the cash-flow data up to March 31st, 2023.
  • Sue Zheng and Afwa Kandawire
    All Institutions

    Principles of design: platform & product

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Treading the data management balancing act

    (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?
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    All Institutions

    Big Little Questions

    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.
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    Pension Funds

    Aladdin® for Pensions

    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.
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    Private Markets

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q4 2022

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Insight private equity benchmarks released for Q4 2022

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

    We look forward to meeting you at IASA Xchange 2023!

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

    Technology - as the instrument of change

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Readying for Risk

    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.
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    Private Markets

    A decades-long, deep collaboration

    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Aladdin® for Asset Managers

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

    Here’s How WealthTech Increases, Not Diminishes, Hands-On Service

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

    Aladdin stambord: the “main table” for the Nordics

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Unlock your data and documents at scale

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

    eFront GP Suite

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    The making of a market-driven scenario

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Asset allocation: is it enough?

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    The Power of Stress Testing

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Making it Easier to Transition Portfolios

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Getting to all Layers of Risk

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Solving the Client Puzzle with Householding

    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?
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    Wealth Managers

    The Value of Reevaluation

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    For Best Results, Face Forward while Driving

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Recognize and Catch the Drift

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

    Expertise in and beyond portfolio and risk technology

    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.
  • Skyscrapers in the fog
    Wealth Managers

    Public, private and the whole portfolio view

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

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q3 2022

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q1 2022

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q4 2021

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q2 2021

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Benefits of International Diversification: Focus on the UK LBO Market

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q1 2021

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    Global Private Equity Performance Series

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

    Exit Environment in 2020 and Evolution of Holding Periods

    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.
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    Private Markets

    Returns, risks and liquidity of VC Funds in Q3 2020

    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 and Patricia Fouqueray
    Asset Managers

    BNP Paribas Asset Management

    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.
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    Pension Funds

    AustralianSuper’s digital transformation

    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.
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    Corporates

    Microsoft Treasury: a twenty-year partnership forged on innovation

    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.
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    Pension Funds

    New Mexico’s SIO embraces a whole portfolio view

    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.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock Alternative Investors

    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.
  • Toru masuda
    Private Markets

    Sumitomo Mitsui Trust

    Listen to Toru Masuda, Executive Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Norimasa Yoshida, Managing Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
  • Sachin Goel
    Private Markets

    Creador

    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.
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    Insurers

    Unlock New Opportunities with Aladdin

    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.
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    Insurers

    eFront® for Insurers

    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.
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    Insurers

    Digital insurer Singlife picks BlackRock

    Mar 8, 2023
    (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.
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    Asset Managers

    STANLIB selects BlackRock's Aladdin enterprise platform

    Mar 7, 2023
    (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.
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    All Institutions

    Domain-Driven Asset Management

    By BlackRock
    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.
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    All Institutions

    2023 Tech Trends for the Asset Management Industry

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

    BlackRock's mighty tech unit is a silver lining in an awful market

    Jan 20, 2023
    (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.
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    Insurers

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022 Winner’s Interview

    Jan 18, 2023
    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.
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    Asset Managers

    How Asset Owners & Managers Use Technology to Gain Portfolio Insights

    Jan 3, 2023
    (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.
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    Asset Managers

    Asset managers pour money into tech platforms to take on BlackRock

    Dec 5, 2022
    (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.
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    Wealth Managers

    HSBC unveils Prism Advisory for Asia private banking clients

    Nov 14, 2022
    (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.
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    Insurers

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022: Aladdin Wins Best IBOR

    Nov 4, 2022
    (Source: WatersTechnology) Aladdin has been awarded ‘Best IBOR’ as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022.
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    Asset Managers

    Coinbase Stock Jumps After Announcing Partnership With BlackRock

    Aug 4, 2022
    (Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, announced a partnership with Coinbase Global.
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    Insurers

    Insurance asset risk technology provider of 2022: Aladdin by BlackRock

    Aug 1, 2022
    (Source: Insurance Asset Risk) Aladdin, BlackRock's ubiquitous risk technology, has served insurance clients for over two decades.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock Expands Partnership with Private Market Investors

    May 12, 2022
    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.
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    Asset Managers

    Solutions Market Perspective Series: An Interview with Sudhir Nair

    Apr 5, 2022
    (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.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock Uses Azure to Strengthen Aladdin

    Apr 1, 2022
    (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.
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    Banks and Brokers

    Central Banking Awards: Aladdin Wins Best Risk Management Technology

    Mar 31, 2022
    (Source: Central Banking) BlackRock's Aladdin has been awarded 'Best Risk Management Technology' as part of the 2022 Central Banking Awards.
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    Asset Managers

    BST Awards 2021: Aladdin Wins Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative

    Nov 5, 2021
    (Source: Waterstechnology) The Aladdin whole portfolio view solution has been awarded 'Best integrated front-office platform' as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.
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    Asset Managers

    BST Awards 2021: Aladdin Wins Best Integrated Front-Office Platform

    Nov 4, 2021
    (Source: Waterstechnology) Aladdin Climate has been awarded 'Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months', as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.
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    All Institutions

    Design Systems Must Grow and Evolve

    By BlackRock
    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.
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    All Institutions

    Blackrock & Cassini Partner to Enrich Aladdin’s Derivatives Abilities

    Jun 15, 2021
    (Source: Cassini Systems) BlackRock enters a strategic partnership with Cassini Systems to integrate Cassini’s margin analytics capabilities into the Aladdin platform.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock & FlexTrade Partner to Bolster Aladdin's Trading Abilities

    May 18, 2021
    (Source: FlexTrade) Integration enables clients to leverage the Aladdin platform’s broad-based OEMS capabilities alongside FlexTrade’s leadership and expertise in EMS
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    Private Markets

    Asset-level benchmarks now available with eFront Insight

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

    The definitive analytical platform for alternative investments

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Private Markets

    New eFront Invest UI transforms the client experience

    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.
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    Private Markets

    New ESG Outreach to help private markets investors

    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.
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    All Institutions

    Snowflake, BlackRock forge partnership to launch Aladdin Data Cloud

    Feb 22, 2021
    (Source: ZDNet) BlackRock partners with Snowflake to launch Aladdin Data Cloud - an investment platform powered by Snowflake. This partnership will bring Aladdin and non-Aladdin data together and enable developers to utilize it via Aladdin Studio.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock looks to predictive ESG data, rather than point-in-time

    Jan 26, 2021
    (Source: Waters Technology) Adding ESG principles into the investment process, BlackRock looks to build out new modeling tools for Aladdin users to better understand how their company’s decisions today can affect their performance in the future.
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    All Institutions

    What Will Climate Change Do to Your Portfolio? Aladdin Has the Answer

    Dec 1, 2020
    (Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock launches Aladdin Climate to help investors measure both the physical risk of climate change and the transition risk to a low-carbon economy on portfolios with climate-adjusted securities and risk metrics.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock’s Q3 Profit Climbed on Steady Inflows, Higher Fee Revenue

    Oct 12, 2020
    (Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock's third-quarter results show an increase of 18% in revenues despite All Institutions parts of the economy and markets being upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Asset Servicers

    Citi to Expand Fund Services on BlackRock’s Aladdin Platform

    Jul 13, 2020
    (Source: Citigroup) Citigroup Inc. reached an agreement to provide middle-office services for investment managers using BlackRock Inc.’s Aladdin Provider platform.
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    Wealth Managers

    Advisors Step Up Portfolio Risk Analysis to Calm Clients

    Jul 20, 2020
    (Source: Advisor Hub) Brokers are stepping up their use of risk-management tools for clients nervous about the coronavirus economy, according to software manufacturers, furthering their efforts to get a closer look.
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    Asset Servicers

    Northern Trust Announces Alliance with BlackRock’s Aladdin

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Business Wire) Northern Trust has entered into a strategic alliance with BlackRock to deliver enhanced operations, data, and servicing capabilities to mutual clients.
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    Private Markets

    The Relentless Ambition of BlackRock’s Aladdin

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock is rolling out new updates to its flagship Aladdin platform as the asset management giant tries to take over even more of the portfolio management software market.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock execs lay out the $1.3 billion eFront deal

    May 20, 2020
    (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.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock to make Aladdin 'language of portfolios'

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Ignite Europe) BlackRock wants its technology platform Aladdin to become the “language of portfolios” as it continues to see technology as a “key differentiator”.
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    Asset Managers

    Santander AM becomes latest customer for BlackRock's Aladdin

    May 19, 2020
    (Source: Funds Europe) Santander Asset Management has adopted Aladdin, BlackRock’s operations system for investment managers, as part of its digital transformation.
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    Asset Servicers

    BlackRock plans for Aladdin to be the custodian's investment language

    May 18, 2020
    (Source: Global Custodian) BlackRock's flagship investment operations platform - Aladdin - is quickly becoming the core infrastructure for custodian’s front-to-back servicing models.
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    Wealth Managers

    Brinker Capital to Implement BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Platform

    May 12, 2020
    (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.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock partners with Rhodium on physical climate analytics

    May 7, 2020
    (Source: BlackRock) BlackRock partners with Rhodium Group to develop solutions to help clients better understand the impacts of climate risk.
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    Asset Managers

    BlackRock Onboards 8 Aladdin Clients Remotely

    May 4, 2020
    (Source: The Trade News) The asset management giant has turned to collaboration tools to help with client implementations during the pandemic lockdown.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock: ESG Research to Be 'at the Heart' of Aladdin

    May 4, 2020
    (Source: Ignites) BlackRock is placing ESG research on par with analysis of fundamental and quantitative investment factors, in part by integrating it into its Aladdin portfolio management technology.
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    All Institutions

    BlackRock and Microsoft Partner to Host Aladdin on Azure

    Apr 7, 2020
    (Source: Microsoft) BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients.
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    All Institutions

    Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, says Aladdin is just a tech startup

    Jan 15, 2020
    (Source: Business Insider) In Larry Fink's eyes, Aladdin isn't so different from a startup.
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    Private Markets

    BlackRock Completes Acquisition of eFront

    May 10, 2019
    (Source: BlackRock) The combination of eFront with Aladdin will set a new standard in investment and risk management technology. to perform middle-office outsourced services.
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    Wealth Managers

    Aladdin Wealth helping BlackRock to 'be part of the infrastructure

    Apr 17, 2019
    (Source: Business Insider) Individual investors are so impressed by BlackRock's risk evaluation technology that they're moving their money to the financial advisors who use it.
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    Asset Servicers

    Two Wall Street Giants Are Going to Be Linking Their Customers’ Data

    Apr 3, 2019
    (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.
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    Wealth Managers

    HSBC signs deal to use BlackRock's 'Aladdin' software worldwide

    Mar 21, 2019
    (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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Manage your business at scale

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

    Engage clients holistically with Aladdin Wealth™

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

    Personalize solutions with Aladdin Wealth™

    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.
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    Wealth Managers

    Drive business growth with Aladdin Wealth™

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

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    A Collaborative Platform for Private Markets

    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.
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    Launches

    Harnessing Innovation: GenAI by Aladdin

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q4 2023

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    The Way Forward: six tech forces driving transformation

    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.
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    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q3 2023

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    ESG Transparency in Private Markets

    Feb 2, 2024
    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.
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    Learn about generative AI by eFront. Introducing eFront Copilot.

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    The Decision is in the Data

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

    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.
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    Ideas

    From Albatross to Catalyst

    By Kunal Khara
    For an industry built on liability containment and risk management, the current state of play is a potpourri of challenges and opportunities.
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    The instruments of change

    By Tarek Chouman
    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.
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    ESG opportunities & risks in private markets

    By Melissa Ferraz
    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.
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    Riding The Wave or Getting Caught in The Undertow

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q1 2023

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    Insight private equity benchmarks released for Q1 2023

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

    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q4 2022

    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.
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    Thought Leadership

    Insight private equity benchmarks released for Q4 2022

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

    Sovereign Bond Liquidity Dynamics

    By BlackRock
    Both the volatility and bid-ask spreads in the gilt market have nearly doubled over the last two months.
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    Aladdin stambord: the “main table” for the Nordics

    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.
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    Unlock your data and documents at scale

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

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Launches

    Asset-level benchmarks now available with eFront Insight

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

    The definitive analytical platform for alternative investments

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Launches

    New eFront Invest UI transforms the client experience

    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.
  • eFront logo
    Launches

    New ESG Outreach to help private markets investors

    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.
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    The making of a market-driven scenario

    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.
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    Asset allocation: is it enough?

    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.
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    The Power of Stress Testing

    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.
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    Making it Easier to Transition Portfolios

    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.
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    Getting to all Layers of Risk

    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.
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    Solving the Client Puzzle with Householding

    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?
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    The Value of Reevaluation

    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.
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    For Best Results, Face Forward while Driving

    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.
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    Recognize and Catch the Drift

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

    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.
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    Public, private and the whole portfolio view

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

    By BlackRock
    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.
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    2023 Tech Trends for the Asset Management Industry

    By BlackRock
    BlackRock’s tech leaders share the trends affecting investors in the year ahead.
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    Design Systems Must Grow and Evolve

    By BlackRock
    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.
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    eFront Insight Quarterly Performance Benchmarks – Q3 2022

    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.
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    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q1 2022

    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.
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    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q4 2021

    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.
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    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q2 2021

    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.
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    Benefits of International Diversification: Focus on the UK LBO Market

    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.
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    Private Equity Performance Overview – Q1 2021

    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.
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    Global Private Equity Performance Series

    The fourth edition of Global Private Equity Performance Series is for the first time using the deal-level benchmarks in geographical performance analysis.
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    Exit Environment in 2020 and Evolution of Holding Periods

    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.
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    Returns, risks and liquidity of VC Funds in Q3 2020

    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.

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    Enhancing Efficiency: Adepa's Digital Transformation

    Learn how streamlined operations, centralized data and improved efficiency is helping Adepa stay ahead of asset servicing trends.
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    Case in Point: Investment Tech for Pensions

    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.
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    Asset Management in the Era of Continuous Change

    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.
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    Advancing ESG with tech

    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.
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    Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

    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.
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  • Chris Scott-Hansen and Woo Fung Kwong.
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    Morgan Stanley: The invisibility of the engine

    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.
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    SLC Management: Transforming through data

    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.
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    BNP Paribas’s Securities Services business

    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.
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    Mirova

    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.
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    Acumen

    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.
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    Technology transforming the asset servicer/asset manager relationship

    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.
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    Audiocast

    Live from Paris: A Conversation with Ardian

    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
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  • Truck on a bridge
    Case Study

    Driving meaningful business transformation for insurers

    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.
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  • Red Bridge
    Case Study

    Technology - as the instrument of change

    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.
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    Case Study

    A decades-long, deep collaboration

    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.
  • Sachin Goel
    Video

    Creador

    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.
  • Fatia Fatma Balit and Patricia Fouqueray
    Audiocast

    BNP Paribas Asset Management

    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.
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  • Peter curtis and sudhir nair
    Audiocast

    AustralianSuper’s digital transformation

    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.
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    Written

    Microsoft Treasury: a twenty-year partnership forged on innovation

    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.
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    Written

    New Mexico’s SIO embraces a whole portfolio view

    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.
  • Arnab mazumdar
    Video

    BlackRock Alternative Investors

    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.
  • Toru masuda
    Video

    Sumitomo Mitsui Trust

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

  • Adrian Crockett, Syril Smith Garson

    Humans in the loop; Robots on the team - Part 2

    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.
  • Adrian Crockett, Syril Smith Garson

    Humans in the loop; Robots on the team

    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.
  • Ted Truscott and Sudhir Nair

    Asset Management in the Era of Continuous Change

    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.
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  • Tarek Chouman, Lance Braunstein, Kunal Khara, Syril Smith Garson

    The Way Forward - Part 2

    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 and Hui Min Loh

    Advancing ESG with tech

    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.
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  • Tarek Chouman, Lance Braunstein, Kunal Khara, Syril Smith Garson

    The Way Forward

    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 and Pia Schaefer

    Capturing “change alpha”

    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 and Victoria Kent

    Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

    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.
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  • Chris Scott-Hansen and Woo Fung Kwong.

    Morgan Stanley: The invisibility of the engine

    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.
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  • Candace Shaw and Tara Kodali.

    SLC Management: Transforming through data

    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.
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  • Syril Smith and Adam Salvatori.

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    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 and Kunal Khara

    Bringing to Life The Global Insurance Report

    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.
  • Clement Perrin and Marija Djordjevic

    Live from Paris: A Conversation with Ardian

    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
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  • Sue Zheng and Afwa Kandawire

    Principles of design: platform & product

    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.
  • Jason wild and lance braunstein

    Technology for the pace of change

    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 and Patricia Fouqueray

    BNP Paribas Asset Management

    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.
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  • Peter curtis and sudhir nair

    AustralianSuper’s digital transformation

    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.
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    Press Release

    Liontrust Implements Integrated Solution with Aladdin® & BNY

    (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.
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    BlackRock Introduces eFront Provider

    (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.
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    Press Release

    Franklin Templeton Selects Aladdin

    (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.
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    Press Release

    AIA Announces Collaboration with BlackRock and BNY

    (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.
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    Press Release

    BlackRock to Acquire Preqin, Leading Private Markets Data Provider

    Jun 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.
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    Royal London AM Adopts Aladdin® using HSBC’s Middle Office services

    Royal London Asset Management, adopts BlackRock’s Aladdin technology platform, which HSBC will leverage to manage the fund manager’s middle office.
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    Are Asset Managers Ready for the New Data Demands of Private Markets?

    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.
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    Awards

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2023 Winner’s Interview

    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.
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    The decision is in the data. How accounting is evolving in an AI world

    Feb 5, 2024
    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.
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    Coverage

    BlackRock rolls out its first gen AI copilot to select eFront clients

    Dec 14, 2023
    (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.
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    BlackRock to roll out first generative AI tools to clients

    “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.
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    How Technology Can Offer Relief to Insurers’ Investment Teams

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

    Adepa chooses BlackRock’s eFront® to enhance its Private Assets Offer

    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.
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    “Experiences must be seamless”: Three trends shaping Wealth Tech

    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.
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    Coverage

    Aladdin: Touching all aspects of an evolving investment ecosystem

    (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.
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    A Unified Investment Platform Brings Scalability and Growth

    (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.
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  • Private Equity International Logo
    Coverage

    Treading the data management balancing act

    (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?
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    Interview

    Readying for Risk

    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.
  • Aladdin Wealth logo
    Coverage

    Here’s How WealthTech Increases, Not Diminishes, Hands-On Service

    Apr 6, 2023
    (Source: Forbes) Opinion piece that highlights how the right wealth tech solutions can help advisors deliver the greatest value for their clients.
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    Coverage

    Digital insurer Singlife picks BlackRock

    Mar 8, 2023
    (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.
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    Press Release

    STANLIB selects BlackRock's Aladdin enterprise platform

    Mar 7, 2023
    (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.
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    Coverage

    BlackRock's mighty tech unit is a silver lining in an awful market

    Jan 20, 2023
    (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.
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    Awards

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022 Winner’s Interview

    Jan 18, 2023
    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.
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    Coverage

    How Asset Owners & Managers Use Technology to Gain Portfolio Insights

    Jan 3, 2023
    (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.
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    Coverage

    Asset managers pour money into tech platforms to take on BlackRock

    Dec 5, 2022
    (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.
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    Coverage

    HSBC unveils Prism Advisory for Asia private banking clients

    Nov 14, 2022
    (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.
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    Awards

    Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022: Aladdin Wins Best IBOR

    Nov 4, 2022
    (Source: WatersTechnology) Aladdin has been awarded ‘Best IBOR’ as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022.
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    Coverage

    Coinbase Stock Jumps After Announcing Partnership With BlackRock

    Aug 4, 2022
    (Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, announced a partnership with Coinbase Global.
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    Coverage

    Insurance asset risk technology provider of 2022: Aladdin by BlackRock

    Aug 1, 2022
    (Source: Insurance Asset Risk) Aladdin, BlackRock's ubiquitous risk technology, has served insurance clients for over two decades.
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    Press Release

    BlackRock Expands Partnership with Private Market Investors

    May 12, 2022
    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.
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    Coverage

    Solutions Market Perspective Series: An Interview with Sudhir Nair

    Apr 5, 2022
    (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.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock Uses Azure to Strengthen Aladdin

    Apr 1, 2022
    (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.
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    Awards

    Central Banking Awards: Aladdin Wins Best Risk Management Technology

    Mar 31, 2022
    (Source: Central Banking) BlackRock's Aladdin has been awarded 'Best Risk Management Technology' as part of the 2022 Central Banking Awards.
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    Awards

    BST Awards 2021: Aladdin Wins Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative

    Nov 5, 2021
    (Source: Waterstechnology) The Aladdin whole portfolio view solution has been awarded 'Best integrated front-office platform' as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.
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    Awards

    BST Awards 2021: Aladdin Wins Best Integrated Front-Office Platform

    Nov 4, 2021
    (Source: Waterstechnology) Aladdin Climate has been awarded 'Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months', as part of the WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Blackrock & Cassini Partner to Enrich Aladdin’s Derivatives Abilities

    Jun 15, 2021
    (Source: Cassini Systems) BlackRock enters a strategic partnership with Cassini Systems to integrate Cassini’s margin analytics capabilities into the Aladdin platform.
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    Press Release

    BlackRock & FlexTrade Partner to Bolster Aladdin's Trading Abilities

    May 18, 2021
    (Source: BlackRock) Integration enables clients to leverage the Aladdin platform’s broad-based OEMS capabilities alongside FlexTrade’s leadership and expertise in EMS
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Snowflake, BlackRock forge partnership to launch Aladdin Data Cloud

    Feb 22, 2021
    (Source: ZDNet) BlackRock partners with Snowflake to launch Aladdin Data Cloud - an investment platform powered by Snowflake. This partnership will bring Aladdin and non-Aladdin data together and enable developers to utilize it via Aladdin Studio.
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    Coverage

    BlackRock looks to predictive ESG data, rather than point-in-time

    Jan 26, 2021
    (Source: Waters Technology) Adding ESG principles into the investment process, BlackRock looks to build out new modeling tools for Aladdin users to better understand how their company’s decisions today can affect their performance in the future.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    What Will Climate Change Do to Your Portfolio? Aladdin Has the Answer

    Dec 1, 2020
    (Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock launches Aladdin Climate to help investors measure both the physical risk of climate change and the transition risk to a low-carbon economy on portfolios with climate-adjusted securities and risk metrics.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock’s Q3 Profit Climbed on Steady Inflows, Higher Fee Revenue

    Oct 12, 2020
    (Source: The Wall Street Journal) BlackRock's third-quarter results show an increase of 18% in revenues despite All Institutions parts of the economy and markets being upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Citi to Expand Fund Services on BlackRock’s Aladdin Platform

    Jul 13, 2020
    (Source: Citigroup) Citigroup Inc. reached an agreement to provide middle-office services for investment managers using BlackRock Inc.’s Aladdin Provider platform.
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    Coverage

    Advisors Step Up Portfolio Risk Analysis to Calm Clients

    Jul 20, 2020
    (Source: Advisor Hub) Brokers are stepping up their use of risk-management tools for clients nervous about the coronavirus economy, according to software manufacturers, furthering their efforts to get a closer look.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Northern Trust Announces Alliance with BlackRock’s Aladdin

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Business Wire) Northern Trust has entered into a strategic alliance with BlackRock to deliver enhanced operations, data, and servicing capabilities to mutual clients.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    The Relentless Ambition of BlackRock’s Aladdin

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Institutional Investor) BlackRock is rolling out new updates to its flagship Aladdin platform as the asset management giant tries to take over even more of the portfolio management software market.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock execs lay out the $1.3 billion eFront deal

    May 20, 2020
    (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.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock to make Aladdin 'language of portfolios'

    May 20, 2020
    (Source: Ignite Europe) BlackRock wants its technology platform Aladdin to become the “language of portfolios” as it continues to see technology as a “key differentiator”.
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    Coverage

    Santander AM becomes latest customer for BlackRock's Aladdin

    May 19, 2020
    (Source: Funds Europe) Santander Asset Management has adopted Aladdin, BlackRock’s operations system for investment managers, as part of its digital transformation.
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    Coverage

    BlackRock plans for Aladdin to be the custodian's investment language

    May 18, 2020
    (Source: Global Custodian) BlackRock's flagship investment operations platform - Aladdin - is quickly becoming the core infrastructure for custodian’s front-to-back servicing models.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Brinker Capital to Implement BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Platform

    May 12, 2020
    (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.
  • Aladdin logo
    Press Release

    BlackRock partners with Rhodium on physical climate analytics

    May 7, 2020
    (Source: BlackRock) BlackRock partners with Rhodium Group to develop solutions to help clients better understand the impacts of climate risk.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock Onboards 8 Aladdin Clients Remotely

    May 4, 2020
    (Source: The Trade News) The asset management giant has turned to collaboration tools to help with client implementations during the pandemic lockdown.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock: ESG Research to Be 'at the Heart' of Aladdin

    May 4, 2020
    (Source: Ignites) BlackRock is placing ESG research on par with analysis of fundamental and quantitative investment factors, in part by integrating it into its Aladdin portfolio management technology.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BNP Paribas Securities Services teams up with BlackRock

    Apr 21, 2020
    (Source: BNP Paribas) Agreement between custodian and asset manager will include BNP Paribas using Aladdin to perform middle-office outsourced services.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    BlackRock and Microsoft Partner to Host Aladdin on Azure

    Apr 7, 2020
    (Source: Microsoft) BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, says Aladdin is just a tech startup

    Jan 15, 2020
    (Source: Business Insider) In Larry Fink's eyes, Aladdin isn't so different from a startup.
  • Aladdin logo
    Press Release

    BlackRock Completes Acquisition of eFront

    May 10, 2019
    (Source: BlackRock) The combination of eFront with Aladdin will set a new standard in investment and risk management technology. to perform middle-office outsourced services.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Aladdin Wealth helping BlackRock to 'be part of the infrastructure

    Apr 17, 2019
    (Source: Business Insider) Individual investors are so impressed by BlackRock's risk evaluation technology that they're moving their money to the financial advisors who use it.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    Two Wall Street Giants Are Going to Be Linking Their Customers’ Data

    Apr 3, 2019
    (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.
  • Aladdin logo
    Coverage

    HSBC signs deal to use BlackRock's 'Aladdin' software worldwide

    Mar 21, 2019
    (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.

  • A boat in the water with birds flying around
    Case Study

    Case in Point: Unified Investment Data Ecosystem

    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.
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    Webinars

    Harnessing Risk in Volatile Markets Through Tech

    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.
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    A Data-Driven Approach to Managing Market Uncertainty

    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.
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    Accelerating Innovation to Transform 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.
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    An Introduction to Aladdin Climate

    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.
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    Brochure

    Aladdin Climate brochure

    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.
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    Brochure

    Uncover more with Aladdin® Risk

    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.
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    Brochure

    Lead Through Uncertainty with Aladdin®

    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.
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    Brochure

    Aladdin® for Pensions

    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.
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    Aladdin® for Asset Managers

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

    Aladdin Studio White paper

    Learn about real-world applications for Studio in our white paper that covers our own principles for harnessing the power of citizen developers.
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    Brochure

    Unlock New Opportunities with Aladdin

    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.
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    eFront® for Insurers

    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.
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    Use Case

    Manage your business at scale with Aladdin Wealth™

    The speed and depth at which you understand what’s happening in your firm is critical. Interact with Aladdin Wealth™ analytics that span your businesses, locations and functions – all in one place.
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    Use Case

    Engage clients holistically with Aladdin Wealth™

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

    Personalize solutions with Aladdin Wealth™

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

Best Overall Technology Provider for 2023

The Aladdin® platform won the Best Overall Technology Provider category in the 2023 Buy-Side Technology Awards. In this video, Kunal Khara discusses the transformation that the world is going through now and how megaforces including emerging technologies will affect investor behavior and ultimately drive innovation at Aladdin.

Spotlight voices

Melissa Ferraz
Melissa Ferraz
Talks about private markets, evolving frameworks, solutions for the whole portfolio, the power of analytics, and the role of GPs and LPs in sustainability
Kunal Khara
Kunal Khara
Talks about transforming through tech, the changing ecosystems of financial institutions, and role of risk (and opportunity)
Tarek Chouman
Tarek Chouman
Talks about empowering scalablity, growth through uncertainty, Aladdin & eFront, next gen technology and financial ecosystems

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