Aladdin® by BlackRock
THE LANGUAGE OF PORTFOLIOS
Welcome to the new era of investment
management tech.
Today, views
across risk/return outcomes and asset
allocation are table stakes. Institutions
want to unlock value and scale, while
uncovering insights across horizontal
functions, strategies, geographies and
everything in between.
The
Aladdin® platform and Aladdin® community
enable that—and more.
Our established track record of successful implementations continues to transform complex, multi-vendor environments into a deeply connected and scalable ecosystem tailored to our clients’ investment process.
KEY POINTS
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Speak the language of portfolios.
Coverage across asset classes, regions, and strategies—throughout the entire investment cycle. Aladdin® tech enables our clients to manage the entire process from building portfolios and managing performance to operations and accounting—helping them build a foundation for a streamlined and scalable operating model.
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The entire ecosystem, fully integrated.
The world’s top asset servicers, broker dealers, trading platforms, and data providers are natively integrated into the Aladdin® Enterprise platform to empower investment managers—including BlackRock—to make more informed investment decisions and take advantage of organic and inorganic growth opportunities.
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Built for pace of change.
We’re continually innovating and evolving our technology to meet future industry demands and pressures. As both a user and provider of Aladdin tech, we’re uniquely positioned to build solutions to meet the industry’s ever-changing requirements—enabling clients to rapidly respond to market opportunities and mitigate operational/investment risk.
Shaping Tomorrow with Technology
Hans Georgeson, CEO, Royal London Asset Management, shares his vision for the future with Tarek Chouman, Global Head of the Aladdin Client Business. Hans discusses how they are leveraging technology to become a global active asset management firm, diversifying outside the UK and into new asset classes like private credit and infrastructure.
In conversation with Ted Truscott, CEO of Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Asset Management in the Era of Continuous Change
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Era of Continuous Change
Episode description:
Asset Management in the Era of Continuous Change
Ted Truscott, Chief Executive Officer, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and Sudhir Nair, Global Head of Aladdin, discuss the evolution of asset management, client expectations and how technology—and AI in particular—is impacting investment management processes at large.
Ted Truscott, Chief Executive Officer, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and Sudhir Nair, Global Head of Aladdin, discuss the evolution of asset management, client expectations and how technology—and AI in particular—is impacting investment management processes at large.
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Franklin Templeton Selects Aladdin
(July 23, 2024) Aladdin® by BlackRock was selected by Franklin Templeton to unify its investment management tech across public market asset classes to reduce complexity and support business growth. -
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(July 12, 2024) AIA announces a new agreement with BlackRock and BNY, as AIA transforms its investment platform, to support the company’s long-term investment programme. -
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BlackRock to Acquire Preqin, Leading Private Markets Data Provider
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Royal London Asset Management adopts Aladdin Platform
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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.
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