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Hedge Fund Solutions (HFS)

BlackRock’s dedicated hedge fund solutions team has been evaluating and investing in hedge funds since 1995. The HFS team’s expertise extends across the universe of hedge fund managers and strategies, as well as hedge fund-sponsored co-investments.

Why Hedge Fund Solutions?

Access to high-conviction hedge funds

Significant experience in early manager identification and demonstrated access to hard-to-access investment opportunities.

Extensive information channels

Leverage expert insights and global professional networks of BlackRock to further inform investment decisions.

World class risk management

Harness proprietary risk management tools to measure, understand, and manage risks within hedge fund portfolios.

Hedge funds can influence portfolio outcomes in a number of ways

Hedge funds are important in investors’ portfolios because they can play a variety of different roles. But in all cases, the right hedge funds should provide alpha or idiosyncratic sources of risk and return that are generally uncorrelated to traditional markets, like equities and fixed income.
portfolio outcomes

Performance dispersion is significant across hedge funds

Selecting the right hedge funds, that demonstrate strong, consistent performance is critical to the outcome of a successful hedge fund program, given the wide dispersion in returns between the top and bottom decile managers.
performance dispersion chart for hedge funds, equities, and fixed income

Selecting hedge fund managers is hard and labor intensive

Identifying and selecting the best hedge funds requires a significant amount of expertise, time, and effort. HFS’ dedicated investment team leverages the experience and expertise gained from building and managing successful hedge fund programs across multiple market cycles for our investors.
Hedge Fund Solutions manager selection process

Harnessing Alpha

The uncertain and volatile macro environment demands a flexible approach, underscoring the case for hedge funds and calling on extensive expertise and strong relationships within the industry to deliver on performance objectives.
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Our disciplined investment approach is focused on four core principles

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Fundamentally understand

an investment manager’s strategy

Align incentives

between the investment manager and the investor

Exercise independent judgement

Exercise independent judgement

Focus on market inefficiencies

as a core source of risk and return

Our HFS team

Bryan Smith
Business Head, Hedge Fund Solutions
Albert Matriotti
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Hedge Fund Solutions
Diana Myint
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Hedge Fund Solutions

Contact our institutional team to learn more about Hedge Fund Solutions

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