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Investment management

INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ASSET MANAGERS

Today, the underlying tech stacks at asset management firms can either help or hinder expansion into new asset classes, finding organic and inorganic growth opportunities & achieving target operating models. Aladdin® unifies investment management—providing a common data language, enabling scale and transformation—across public and private markets.

KEY BENEFITS

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    The language of portfolios

    Aladdin technology serves as the backbone of an asset manager’s investment process across public and private assets—with an open architecture that gives clients and ecosystem partners the ability to “plug in”—for flexibility, optionality, and interoperability.

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    User-provider model

    The Aladdin platform empowers sophisticated investment managers around the world—including BlackRock—to make more informed investment decisions, see through risk, capture market opportunities, and tap into scalable growth—for your stakeholders, as well as the end investor.

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    New growth opportunities

    Take advantage of organic and inorganic growth opportunities, expand into new asset classes, and unlock your data—all while transforming a complex, multi-vendor environment into a deeply connected and scalable ecosystem.

Asset management in the era of continuous change

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Asset management in the era of continuous change
Episode description:

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

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 the investment management process.

How do we help asset managers with their investments?

Asset managers turn to our solutions to optimize performance, streamline operations, and differentiate their offerings. With Aladdin at the core, they gain a unified data platform that connects investment, risk, operations, and reporting.

With a proven implementation playbook, deep expertise across asset classes, and a flexible, API-first platform, we simplify complexity and accelerate time to value.

30
years of delivering solutions for asset managers
400
of the world’s most sophisticated asset managers leverage Aladdin and eFront technology

Support public and private investments at scale

The Aladdin platform, inclusive of eFront, is a scalable platform that supports firms' evolving investment activities globally—across the whole portfolio. It delivers enhanced data analytics, portfolio construction, and risk management across public and private markets—further streamlining client operations and helping drive growth strategies.
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Supporting multi-asset mandate and custom benchmarks

Portfolio management is continuously changing and it’s critical for asset managers to have the right tech to unlock opportunities, give them a competitive edge, help them grow, and differentiate. The Aladdin platform supports multi-asset portfolio construction and mandates, alongside custom benchmarks, model portfolios and target operating models.
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Power investments with reliable, unified data

Aladdin's data-as-a-service solution provides users with a single platform to access reliable, high-quality data to support all investment and operations workflows. With Aladdin technology, clients benefit from a managed data pipeline, aggregating investment data on a cloud-agnostic, scalable platform, ultimately reducing operational overhead.
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Empowering confident decisions through integrated risk intelligence

Aladdin Risk equips asset managers with analytics and reporting tools to uncover exposures, attribute performance, and monitor compliance. Powered by market-tested models and scalable infrastructure, it enables scenario simulation and real-time insights for confident decisions-supporting smarter, faster investment decisions.
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Flexible, AI-ready foundation

Aladdin adapts to your architecture and strategy—enabling seamless connectivity across systems, data, workflows, and models. Built for institutional scale, it delivers the flexibility to evolve, the extensibility to innovate, and the interoperability to unify your investment ecosystem.
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A client story: In conversation with John Wilson, Co-CEO of Ninepoint

John Wilson, co-CEO, Managing Partner, and Senior Portfolio Manager at Ninepoint, and Ultan Geraghty, co-Head of Aladdin Client Engagement for the Americas, discuss how leveraging technology enabled rapid implementation of new solutions and scalable growth—while responding to market dynamics and maintaining a competitive edge.
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What does scale mean for asset managers?

Hear perspectives from Meera Jessa, Co-Head of Aladdin Client Engagement for the Americas, and Victoria Kent, Head of Aladdin Client Engagement—as they discuss current conditions that asset managers face and how technology can support growth amidst volatility, uncertainty, and change.

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Awards

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Buy-Side Technology – Awards Winner 2022

Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform—BlackRock’s Aladdin® platform
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Buy-Side Technology – Awards Winner 2021

Best integrated front-office platform ’21; BlackRock’s Aladdin® platform

Frequently asked questions

  • The Aladdin platform supports private assets—both indirect and direct investments—by integrating public and private market workflows, data, and analytics on a single platform. Its eFront component enables end to end support for private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and private credit, covering tasks like performance benchmarking, fund accounting, and portfolio monitoring. This unified approach helps investment teams manage all asset classes together, streamline reporting, and maintain a clear view of exposures across the portfolio.

  • Aladdin provides a unified platform that supports integration across public and private markets, enabling consistent workflows, data models, and analytics across asset classes. The Aladdin platform allows clients to ingest, enrich, and export data seamlessly, supporting front to back investment workflows including portfolio construction, risk management, compliance, and operations.

  • Aladdin approaches technology transformation with a strategic, consultative framework that begins with a comprehensive review of a client’s operating model and technology stack across front, middle, and back office. We have a consistent track record of successful implementations, achieved through deep collaboration with client teams and disciplined execution of project goals.

  • The Aladdin platform delivers advanced analytics powered by AI to manage increasingly complex portfolios through several integrated capabilities. Aladdin Copilot provides a natural language interface that enables users to ask how to questions, visualize data and analytics, and retrieve information from across Aladdin.