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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.
eFront® Insight - Evolved
Due diligence. Manager selection. Portfolio monitoring.
Now all connected—in one, future-ready, private markets platform.
With Preqin® inside, eFront® Insight makes private markets investing more seamless and more informed.
One clear view from start to scale. One powerful continuum.
Now all connected—in one, future-ready, private markets platform.
With Preqin® inside, eFront® Insight makes private markets investing more seamless and more informed.
One clear view from start to scale. One powerful continuum.
Covering the greater private markets ecosystem
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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.
At the forefront of trends with technology
A foundation for growth: Nextalia’s investment infrastructure transformation
As Nextalia scaled into a multi-strategy private markets manager, operational complexity outpaced its legacy infrastructure. By building an operating foundation on eFront and Preqin, Nextalia replaced complexity with a future-ready platform that streamlined investor servicing, reduced manual processes, and created a scalable engine for growth and innovation.
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Robin Ledoux, Head of Fund Administration & Valuation at 6M, discusses trends in the asset servicing industry, including diversification into new asset classes such as crypto, and highlights how 6M leverages eFront® to streamline their fund management.
A new generation of private markets 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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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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