Alternatives are essential

As allocations grow, alternative investments play an increasingly critical role in portfolios. The need for an approach that is scalable, disciplined, integrated, technology-enabled, transparent and based on fiduciary partnership has never been greater.
Alternatives

Championing a new era of alternatives

Growing demand and complexity in private markets calls for a new era of alternatives to overcome long-standing hurdles for investors. We are helping to evolve the industry to overcome those challenges and defining a new kind of partnership for our clients.

2025 Milken Conference

The annual Milken conference is an opportunity for industry leaders to come together and discuss opportunities in the market, and how we can help our clients overcome new challenges. See our highlight reel of the event.

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2025 Private Markets Outlook

Hear from our private markets senior leaders as they discuss the past year, explore where the opportunities are for each asset class, and take a close look at some of the structural shifts that are reshaping our world.

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Alternative investment strategies

Private Debt

Discover leveraged finance, multi-strategy and credit solutions

Opportunities include: direct lending, opportunistic, special situations, distressed

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Hedge Funds

Solutions across equity, event driven, relative value global macro and risk

Opportunities include: long/short equity, event driven, relative value, global macro, risk premia, hedge fund solutions

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Infrastructure

Learn about BlackRock's infrastructure platform

Opportunity include: infrastructure equity, infrastructure debt, infrastructure solutions, listed infrastructure

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Multi-Alternatives

Meet BlackRock’s multi-alternative portfolio management team

Opportunities include: diversified alternatives, alternatives solutions

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Private Equity

Explore direct, co-investment, primary and secondary private equity

Opportunities include: direct co-investments, primaries, secondaries, open-end direct, direct

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Real Estate

Learn about BlackRock's real estate platform

Opportunities include: real estate debt, real estate equity, real estate securities

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BlackRock’s latest alternative investing insights

2025 Hedge Fund Outlook: Adapting to the New Regime

27-Oct-2025 | By BlackRock

As markets shift and diversifiers weaken, our Hedge Fund Outlook highlights why we believe investors are enhancing adaptability and scale to seize alpha in today’s opportunity-rich landscape.

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The underestimated edge: machine learning in macro investing

30-Sept-2025 | By Systematic Investing

Can machine learning thrive in macro? Purpose-built approaches show it can—transforming sparse data and local signals into scalable, alpha-driven strategies.

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Seizing the Generational Infrastructure Opportunity

30-Apr-2025 | By Raj Rao, Stacey Mullin

GIP President and COO Raj Rao shares his view of the infrastructure investing landscape, and how BlackRock and GIP are transforming the opportunity set.

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AI: The real estate opportunity

09-Apr-2025 | By Simon Durkin, Chloe Soar

Our investors explore how AI is transforming real estate investing by automating tasks, optimizing operations, and creating new investment opportunities.

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Growth and venture debt

27-Mar-2025 | By Marten Vading, Ross Ahlgren, Mat Pearse

Leading investors discuss the opportunities, risks and changed landscape of this emerging segment of private credit.

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2025 Private Markets Outlook

16-Dec-2024 | By BlackRock

Hear from our private markets senior leaders as they discuss the past year, explore where the opportunities are for each asset class, and take a close look at some of the structural shifts that are reshaping our world.

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On the Historical Outperformance of Private Equity

19-Nov-2024 | By Jeroen Cornel, Kyle McDermott, Yamona Win

An evaluation of private equity returns compared to their respective public market equivalents.

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Systematic Insights into Private Equity Investing

11-Nov-2024 | By Systematic Investing

This research presents a framework for late-stage venture and growth equity investing, showing how quantitative tools and alternative data used in public markets may help forecast positive outcomes in growth equity investments.

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Private Debt in Focus

04-Oct-2024 | By BlackRock

As the technology sector is continuously evolving, investors need to maintain a key focus for investment opportunities.

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Venture capital market outlook

01-Oct-2024 | By BlackRock

Explore our analysis of the venture capital market; a dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape shaped by macroeconomic shifts and technological advancements.

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Sourcing Alpha in the New Regime

03-May-2024 | By BlackRock

The new regime presents better opportunities for active managers and greater separation between top performers and the rest, making manager selection critical.

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Global real estate view point

15-Apr-2024 | By BlackRock

The global real estate market appears to be emerging from the downturn in capital values and stabilization in interest rates is driving this shift. We believe a meaningful recovery in transaction volume will occur in 2024 after a muted 2023.

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Global credit outlook

23-Dec-2023 | By BlackRock

A widening divide can be seen across the investing landscape, underscoring the importance of selectivity in the current backdrop of heightened dispersion.

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Hedge Fund Opportunities

13-Sep-2023

Quantitative easing suppressed volatility for years, but a new market regime is unlocking opportunities for hedge fund strategies. Explore the opportunities.

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Building for growth: Unlocking the power of infrastructure assets

21-Aug-2023 | By BlackRock

Institutions are tuning into what we believe is a generational opportunity, not only for the potential portfolio benefits listed below, but as a powerful way to invest in the trends that will shape the future of our economy.

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Waratah Super Battery

24-Apr-2023 | By BlackRock Alternatives

BlackRock’s investment in the Waratah Super Battery will support the energy grid of New South Wales as it undergoes a significant transition.

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