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EFRONT® INSIGHT
POWERFUL ANALYTICS FOR PRIVATE MARKETS
Investing in private markets is anything but standard. And managing them is anything but straightforward. eFront® Insight provides the data, analysis, and expertise that institutional investors need to navigate alternative investments with confidence.
By combining deep industry expertise with powerful analytics, and a commitment to innovation, eFront® Insight delivers an industry-defining solution—integrating GenAI to unlock new efficiencies and optimize workflows. The platform is complemented by Preqin fund-level benchmarks, offering enhanced performance comparisons and valuable market insights. Whether you’re an asset owner or manager, our platform empowers more-informed decisions, streamlined reporting, differentiating analyses, and stronger relationship management.
Visualize your portfolio. Optimize performance. And simplify fund administration & reporting.
Preqin is now a part of BlackRock
Rob Goldstein, BlackRock’s COO, and Mark O’Hare, Preqin’s Founder, discuss how Preqin advances BlackRock’s private market capabilities, enabling the delivery of integrated investment, technology and data solutions across clients’ whole portfolios.
Excel with your investments
Private Markets Analytics Built for Asset Owners & Managers
eFront® Insight streamlines data collection and analysis across the entire private markets investment lifecycle. Designed to support both asset managers and asset owners, it simplifies the complexities of fund, portfolio, and investment data management. Powered by Insight Data Services (IDS), the platform ensures seamless data gathering and processing, providing you with timely and accurate insights.
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A platform for actionable data insights
eFront® Insight enhances transparency in private markets by providing granular investment and benchmark data, optimizing efficiency, and improving benchmarking. Designed for asset owners, including Limited Partners (LPs), it ensures faster access to critical data through best-in-class collection services and ESG risk detection. With superior insights, LPs can make more informed decisions for due diligence and portfolio construction.
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Say Goodbye to Chasing Data & Excel Aggregation
With eFront® Insight LP, asset owners access quarterly fund and investment data for real-time visibility and better decisions. The platform streamlines LP capital account statements and cash flow processing through IDS, enhancing efficiency and transparency.
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Enhance Fee Diligence and Cost Benchmarking
eFront® FAIR enhances your ability to track, validate, and benchmark fees in a simpler, more cost-effective way—helping you gain confidence in the underlying charges of your funds while improving overall financial oversight.
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Use natural language to create data visualizations via GenAI
With eFront® Copilot, users from analysts to CIOs can unlock new efficiencies. Simply ask a question to access key analytics, visualize exposures and risks, and configure layouts seamlessly—while leveraging existing Insight functionality directly in the chat.
A platform for private market data exchanges
With the increase in demand for granular data and customized reporting, eFront® Insight helps asset managers maintain efficient investor engagement and reporting practices. Learn more about what we offer asset managers so you can strengthen relationships with investors.
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Digitize data exchange with your investors
With eFront® Insight GP, general partners can access an intuitive platform centered on digitizing private market data exchanges, empowering them to streamline investor communications and data exchanges while generating innovative insights.
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Provide complete, coherent and error-free data to your investors
Our automated data checks and team of 200+ highly competent data analysts ensures that data you provide to investors is complete and coherent, with any anomalies reported to you for verification before submission.
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Enhance Fundraising with Accurate Benchmarking
Accurate performance benchmarking and attribution are crucial during fundraising, and our Insight Research module tool provides top-quality data for precise comparisons against industry peers. With comprehensive insights and analytics built on top-quality data, asset managers can effectively measure performance.
Customize private markets workflows
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RESEARCH PAPERQuarterly Performance Benchmarks
View the latest performance metrics from Q2 2024. From calculations using the cashflow information of 8,000 private market funds, this quarterly performance data is ready for you. -
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WebinarsPrivate Market Sustainability for LPs
The webinar showcases the LP capabilities offered through Insight Sustainability, including the new integration of Aladdin Climate. We outline how these tools address sustainability challenges and use cases in private markets. -
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video seriesUncharted
Introducing “Uncharted”—our video series that explores the science behind the Aladdin®, Aladdin Wealth™, and eFront® platforms. Each episode, we’re bringing our data and analytics to life through BlackRock voices.
ABOUT ALADDIN
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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