Hedge Funds

Our liquid alternatives platform leverages extensive company and market access, deep market insights, and proprietary risk and quantitative analysis capabilities aiming to deliver differentiated alpha for our clients.
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Why BlackRock for hedge funds?

Differentiated alpha

Diversifying

Defensiveness

Investment skill at scale

At BlackRock, we empower our hedge fund investors to operate seamlessly at scale. We harness unparalleled expertise, global reach, and cutting-edge technology to deliver solutions across geographies, asset classes, and investment styles. Discover the advantages of investing at scale with Raffaele Savi, Global Head of BlackRock Systematic.

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Our hedge fund platform

BlackRock manages $76bn in hedge fund assets

Our 27+ year track record consists of $48 billion in direct hedge funds and $29 billion in hedge fund solutions

Dedication to rigor and consistency

Robust, repeatable, research-driven processes form the backbone of our investment teams

Commitment to client needs

We leverage the extensive expertise gained from our platform's scale to provide our clients with valuable insights and solutions

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Extensive trading, risk management, and capital markets resources enable our hedge fund managers to focus solely on generating alpha on behalf of our clients

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Investment strategies

Our hedge fund strategies combine our skill and scale to offer solutions across geographies, asset classes and styles.

Equities

At BlackRock, our long/short equity strategies are among our largest and most established hedge funds. Our market-neutral approach aims for absolute returns irrespective of market conditions.

Fixed income

Traditional fixed income investing has been centered on factor beta bets on both credit and duration. We build diversified, global fixed income multi-strategy hedge funds to deliver returns independent of traditional market betas.

Multi-asset

Our flagship macro and multi-strategy hedge funds utilize sub-strategies to seek idiosyncratic alpha across asset classes, global geographies, market structures, and investment horizons.

Event-driven

Our event-driven team uses the collective intelligence of the Blackrock platform to capitalize on the value gap arising from the misunderstood nature of transformative events.

Hedge fund solutions

Identifying and selecting the best hedge funds can be hard and labor intensive. HFS’s dedicated investment team has experience and expertise across multiple market cycles building successful hedge fund programs for our investors.

Investors

Our investors have an unrelenting focus on generating alpha for our clients. By leveraging diverse backgrounds and approaches, our experts collaborate with portfolio construction and risk management teams to develop strategies focused on consistent alpha generation, regardless of market conditions.

Hedge fund outlook 2025

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Insights

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Portable alpha strategies

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Explore how portable alpha strategies can potentially increase returns by separating the beta and alpha components of a portfolio.

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A New Era for Hedge Funds

The hedge fund industry is evolving. Discover why the ability to harness advanced technology - including AI - will define the next generation of hedge funds.

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