Private Equity
Private equity is a core pillar of BlackRock’s alternatives platform. BlackRock’s Private Equity teams manage $55.2 billion in capital commitments across direct, primary, secondary and co-investments.1
Why BlackRock for private equity?
Private equity is an essential element of investors’ portfolios. Investors are seeking differentiated strategies for their private equity allocations based on their unique needs, including risk and return objectives, cash flow profiles and overall cost. Our platform takes a holistic approach to investors’ private equity portfolios and is designed to offer strategies and solutions that align with client objectives and deliver persistent outperformance.
True alignment with client needs
Differentiated sourcing enabled by a centralized platform
Insights amplified with technology
Investment strategies
Our approaches span the private equity toolkit, offering investors exposure to private equity through direct, primary, secondary, and co-investment strategies. While the approaches differ, they share the strengths of a common platform as they seek to deliver top quartile performance across investment cycles.
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.
Additional resources
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Capital market assumptions
Our capital market assumptions (CMAs) account for today’s wide range of potential outcomes driven by an accelerating economic transformation.