BlackRock’s Multi-Alternatives team (“Multi-Alts”) designs and manages diversified, portfolio solutions across liquid and illiquid alternatives by leveraging BlackRock’s investment capabilities, access to both deal flow and external managers and the firm’s technology platform.
Multi-Alternatives
Benefits of a multi-alternative solution
Our Multi-Alts platform seeks to both identify and solve clients’ needs by harnessing expansive investment insights, sourcing channels, and risk expertise to help enhance client outcomes. We take an open architecture approach, partnering with BlackRock and non-Blackrock investment teams, seeking to deliver optimal portfolio solutions to address client needs.
Comprehensive portfolios
We build solutions designed to address clients’ needs in a whole portfolio context.
Unconstrained access
We utilize an open architecture model with offerings across liquid to illiquid alternatives.
Focus on alpha return drivers
We measure and model risk factors and drivers, then seek to select idiosyncratic risks.
End-to-end client solutions
We build relationships on transparency, tailoring our involvement to be an extension of staff.
Our differentiated approach
Proprietary technologyDeep technology resources improve our understanding of portfolio risk, inform allocation decisions, and enhance effective capital deployment.
Open architectureInvestment access through internal strategies and external managers allows us to leverage our sourcing capabilities to capture attractive opportunities.
Flexible implementationTargeting effective capital deployment through both fund and direct investments, while considering market factors and relative value view across strategies.
Single touch pointRelationship structure that promotes cost-efficiency, scalability, and flexibility while helping investors plan, manage, and execute over a multi-year journey.
We offer solutions for a variety of client objectives
Whole alternatives portfolio solutions
Fully diversified alternatives program designed and managed in the context of a client’s total portfolio
Customized solutions
Customized solutions across portfolio design, implementation, and engagement
Multi-alternatives commingled funds
Scaled solutions addressing common objectives and challenges within specific investor segments
Portfolio diagnostics & recommendations
Portfolio analysis, cash flow modeling, and alternatives allocation guidance for portfolio optimization
Investment strategies
Alternative Portfolio Solutions (APS)
Custom and commingled solutions utilizing the full breadth of private market strategies, harnessing both internal and external capabilities
Direct Private Opportunities (DPO)
Portfolio solutions consisting of opportunistic private market transactions in both niche assets and market segments
Hedge Fund Solutions (HFS)
Solutions focused on limiting primary risk factors, diversifying secondary risk factors, and emphasizing idiosyncratic risks
Why BlackRock for multi-asset?
MASS draws on the toolkit of BlackRock's index, factor, and alpha-seeking capabilities to offer cutting-edge insights and precise investment outcomes. The group meets client demand for active asset allocation strategies and whole portfolio solutions through funds, separate accounts, model portfolios, and more.
Meet the Multi-Alts team
The roughly 150 investment professionals that are dedicated to Multi-Alts solutions capitalize on BlackRock’s scale of more than $300 billion in private markets, unparalleled access, and expertise to source, underwrite, and manage differentiated alternative investments.
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