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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Backed by Aladdin. Forged in Private Markets.
Our client community—inclusive of BlackRock®—is the driving force behind the continued evolution of eFront®, our tech platform for private markets investments. From private equity and debt to real estate and infrastructure—our data, analytics, and workflows empower investment decisions for both leading and emerging asset owners and asset managers.
Covering the greater private markets ecosystem
Whether you’re an asset manager, asset owner, or private markets ecosystem partner—a single platform built by and for market practitioners will help ensure your organization keeps up with the continuous pace of change.
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eFront is designed to maximize your portfolio understanding
eFront solutions enable fund managers of any size to optimize all aspects of their fund investment cycle. eFront can help clients better manage and monitor alternative investment portfolio data sets, elevate investor relationships, and automate difficult (and often error-prone) tasks.
Covering your entire investment lifecycle
Whether you’re a pension fund or endowment, insurance company, bank, or family office—we can help you streamline operations and monitor alternative investments allocations within your portfolios.
Providing asset servicers with tools to holistically service clients
Whether you’re a fund administrator, depositary/custodian, transfer agent, or advisor—we can help you manage client operations more efficiently, streamline fund data management, automate accounting, strengthen auditability, and enhance your reporting capabilities.
Streamlining operations in the face of increasing competition and fees
Now more than ever, as a fund of funds manager, you need to streamline and optimize operations while providing value-generating insights. With eFront® technology, we can help you optimize across the entire investment process, so that you can focus on providing exceptional value to investors.
Technology and impact investing
Learn how tech is helping Acumen bring together the power of markets and philanthropy with a conversation from Chief Financial Officer Jacqueline Woo.
A new generation of private markets to technology
From automation to machine learning and natural language processing, artificial intelligence has been a part of BlackRock s DNA for years—and continues to be applied across eFront® technology.
Introducing eFront Copilot, available within eFront Insight
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eFront® Insight Biannual Infrastructure Report – Q4 2023
The eFront® Insight Research infrastructure fund performance metrics are calculated using the deal-level information about almost 9,500 unique deals reported by more than 800 funds specialized in infrastructure investments. -
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BlackRock to Acquire Preqin, Leading Private Markets Data Provider
(June 30, 2024) BlackRock, Inc. has agreed to acquire Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data, bringing together Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform. -
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Uncharted video series
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Advancing ESG with tech
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Technology as the instrument of change
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Readying for Risk
Follow along with Melissa Ferraz, Managing Director and Global Head of Aladdin Alternatives at BlackRock, from her Keynote Interview with PEI.
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Aladdin® is a technology platform used by asset managers and owners including banks, financial institutions, pensions, corporations, insurers, and wealth managers. The Aladdin platform unifies the investment management process, providing a common data language within an organization to enable scale, provide insights, and support business transformation. Through eFront® technology, alternative investment data management is covered to meet the needs of alternative investment professionals worldwide and across all major alternative asset classes. From fundraising, fund administration and reporting to data services and analytics, the platform provides capabilities to support decision making and investment oversight.
Aladdin® and eFront® platforms bring together public and private asset class data to create an industry-recognized whole portfolio solution for investment professionals globally. Find out more at www.blackrock.com/aladdin | request@blackrock.com
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