BlackRock
BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York City, with approximately $11.5 trillion in assets under management across its global platform. The firm serves institutional and individual investors across the full spectrum of investment strategies, including equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternatives, through both active management and passive index strategies. BlackRock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BLK) and employs thousands of investment professionals across offices in over 30 countries. The firm's proprietary Aladdin technology platform provides risk management and portfolio analytics capabilities that are used both internally and by hundreds of external financial institutions.
BlackRock's alternatives platform is one of the most comprehensive in the industry, encompassing private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, hedge funds, and liquid alternatives. The firm has made significant investments in expanding its private markets capabilities, including the acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and its partnership with HPS Investment Partners, which together dramatically extended BlackRock's footprint in infrastructure and private credit respectively. BlackRock's alternatives professionals invest across the risk-reward spectrum, from investment-grade infrastructure debt to opportunistic private equity, using advanced technology including Aladdin and eFront to monitor thousands of private company investments and risk factors across the platform.
BlackRock's scale, global reach, and integrated technology infrastructure provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the alternatives market, enabling the firm to source, evaluate, and manage private market investments at a level of sophistication that few competitors can match. The firm serves thousands of institutional clients and increasingly the wealth management channel through innovative semi-liquid and interval fund structures designed to bring institutional private markets access to individual investors. BlackRock's continued investment in its alternatives platform, including growing its presence in private credit, infrastructure, and real assets, reflects its conviction that private markets will play an increasingly important role in investor portfolios in the coming decades.