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Alternative investments with BlackRock

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.

Shaping the future of alternatives

With US$639B in alternatives, BlackRock brings scale, discipline, and conviction to every investment. From private credit and infrastructure to private equity, secondaries, real estate, hedge funds, and multi-strategy solutions, we partner with institutions to navigate complexity and pursue long-term outperformance — shaping the future of alternative investing.1

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Access to the best opportunities

Our alternative investors supplement their networks and know-how with best-in-class ideas from BlackRock’s other 5,000-plus investors around the world.

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Greater transparency

We use advanced technology to help build stronger portfolios – we track 147,000 unique companies and 78,000 unique properties on eFront.2

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An integrated view

We provide you with a whole portfolio view, so you have a deeper understanding of how alternatives impact the rest of your portfolio.

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Understand expert perspectives

Stay ahead on emerging growth drivers and structural trends with actionable intelligence from our BlackRock’s global team of specialists. 

Alternative investment capabilities

BlackRock enables custom portfolio construction through diverse strategy coverage across a range of alternative strategies

Private credit

Private credit is not just a strategy; it’s a burgeoning ecosystem of $1.9 trillion assets and growing to meet the evolving needs of investors and borrowers. BlackRock can help address full suite of investor objectives across the risk-return spectrum, liquidity needs, regions, currencies and ESG objectives.

Direct lending

Offering differentiated sourcing, superior risk management and an established track record BlackRock's direct lending platform provides customizable structures and global scale.

Opportunistic

Providing dynamic flexibility across markets and market cycles, BlackRock's opportunistic platform offers potential for premium returns alongside downside mitigation.

Growth debt

Operationally flexible loans to innovative, high growth companies - BlackRock's growth debt platform offers the potential for enhanced returns and downside mitigation alongside the opportunity to leverage favourable market dynamics.

Infrastructure debt

Offering the potential for higher income, diversification and inflation risk management, BlackRock's infrastructure debt platform provides access to a range of opportunities globally.

Infrastructure

Well-built infrastructure investments are a powerful way to invest in the trends shaping the world of tomorrow. We believe that BlackRock’s global reach, deep experience and sourcing prowess make the foundations of an infrastructure investment platform investors can build on with confidence. Key opportunities:

Infrastructure equity

Providing opportunities across core, core plus and value add solutions, BlackRock's infrastructure equity platform offers global scale, deep expertise, and diversification across sectors and regions.

Infrastructure securities

Offering infrastructure securities - high yield / mezzanine, core and core plus solutions, BlackRock's infrastructure securities platform provides expert structuring capabilities, customization and exposure across the themes shaping the future.

Infrastructure debt

Focusing on driving income across investment grade and high yield mezzanine structures, BlackRock's infrastructure debt platform provides customizable solutions with global access and scale.

Private Equity

Private equity is a core pillar of BlackRock’s alternatives platform. BlackRock’s Private Equity teams manage USD$34 billion in capital commitments across direct, primary, secondary and co-investments.3 Key opportunities:

Direct

We are designed to deliver compounded private equity returns and better alignment with investors and investee companies. The strategy is predicated on asset selection that prioritizes proven, high-quality businesses and value creation through active collaboration with management teams.

Co investments

We have been leaders in co-investments since 2001. More than half of co-investment capital has gone into pre-bid transactions, enabling us to do deeper due diligence, have stronger influence on results and obtain scalable allocations.

Primaries

We take a systematic approach, with long-term pipeline visibility based on comprehensive market coverage. Robust portfolio planning enables diversification across managers, vintages, strategies/stages, geographies, sectors and sizes.

Secondaries

Investors buy shares in PE funds on the secondary market to access more mature assets, diversify their portfolios and capitalize on market dislocations. Our experienced secondaries team leverages BlackRock’s advantages to deliver on all fronts.

Secondaries

We are an experienced global investor in private market secondaries. On behalf of our clients, we acquire existing interests in private funds and companies, providing liquidity to investors and managers globally.

Mid-size focus

This is a less-competitive segment of the market where we can be highly selective, investing in fewer than 1% of evaluated deals.

Breadth of network

Our long-standing relationships and expansive private markets platform position us as a trusted partner and preferred counterparty.

Platform insights

We offer unmatched global investment insights and diligence resources from investment professionals in 70 offices across 36 countries.

Risk Management

BlackRock’s differentiated risk management capabilities and technology platform optimize and protect equity value.

Real Estate

The real estate market is going through a period of profound change. The rapid repricing of capital values has created the best entry point for investors in years. This has opened a new suite of opportunities, and BlackRock’s global real estate business is positioned for partnership. Key opportunities:

Separate accounts

Providing access to global opportunities BlackRock's separate accounts platform partners with clients on customized solutions to help them meet their goals.

Core funds

Providing open-ended solutions focused on income generation, BlackRock's core fund strategies take a long-term growth outlook.

Value add funds

Closed-end strategies that manufacture value through a defined life-cycle, BlackRock's value add funds platform provides global scale and disciplined risk management to help clients meet their goals.

Co-investment

Providing global access to range of dynamic opportunities across sectors for targeted exposures and mandate alignment, BlackRock's co-investment platform offers robust risk management and executional expertise.

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. Key opportunities:

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.

Multi-Alternatives

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. Key opportunities:

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

Portfolio solutions consisting of opportunistic private market transactions in both niche assets and market segments.

Hedge fund solutions

Solutions focused on limiting primary risk factors, diversifying secondary risk factors, and emphasizing idiosyncratic risks.

Alternatives and retirement 401(k) plans

Discover how integrating private equity and credit into defined contribution retirement plans can boost savings, and learn about the benefits of private markets, including better risk-adjusted returns, diversification and inflation protection.

Risk-adjusted returns

Providing exposure to potential growth drivers, a target date option with private market access could enhance long-term retirement outcomes and stability.

Diversification

Offering a range of exposures across sectors can help diversify and build portfolio resilience.

Inflation protection

Exposures in private market sectors can protect retirement savers against erosion of purchasing power.

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1Client assets represent a combination of BlackRock's client assets, GIP total assets, and HPS Total AUM. BlackRock defines client assets as Alternative assets across reported Client AUM and non-fee-paying committed capital, co-investments and market related gains on invested assets. GIP Total Assets expand on this total by incorporating the mark-to-market valuation of fund investments and non-fee-paying assets. Total assets include the universe below as well as select additional funds on platform (e.g., BIO, LTPC). BlackRock recent acquisition of ElmTree with $7.3B of client asset on September 3rd has not been included in the Private Financing Solutions & Asset Based Financing totals. 

2Figure refers to eFront platform 31st December 2024.

3Includes Private Equity Primaries and Secondaries & Liquidity Solutions strategies. Full track records available upon request. Dollar figures associated with Strategic GP / LP Financing is currently captured across Direct Lending, Junior Capital Solutions, and Private High Grade Asset-Based Financing. 

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