Asset manager Franklin Templeton will be deploying the Aladdin platform from BlackRock to unify its investment management IT infrastructures across public market asset classes, officials say. The Aladdin portfolio management software offers investment firms “a way to view and manage daily investments,” according to BlackRock. “Aladdin is a comprehensive technology solution that supports the entire… Read More >>
Schroders Taps Xceptor to Manage Aladdin Data Flows
The London-based Schroders deployed the data automation offerings of Xceptor to move much of its key business onto the BlackRock Aladdin investment operations platform and wound up using Xceptor again for processes not involving Aladdin. “Schroders’ strategic aim was to get as much of their business onto Blackrock Aladdin and their core supporting platform,” Josh… Read More >>
Aladdin Grants BlackRock’s Wish & Other News
BlackRock Lands $150B Mandate with AIG BlackRock’s investment management technology platform Aladdin will play a key role in the $150 billion mandate that the asset manager just signed with insurance giant American International Group (AIG), officials say. The Aladdin platform encompasses portfolio management and risk analytics. The world’s largest asset manager will oversee key AIG… Read More >>
BlackRock’s Aladdin Links to Portware’s EMS & Other News
FactSet & BlackRock Forge Partnership Asset management giant BlackRock will be integrating its Aladdin investment management and operations platform with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS) to offer common clients access to trade execution, multi-asset portfolio and risk management support, and Portware’s electronic trading and automation capabilities via an application programming interface (API), officials say…. Read More >>
BlackRock Embraces ESG & Climate Change Reforms
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock, is making the case to his shareholders and fellow corporate executives that major steps forward need to be taken to advance environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals in financial services and beyond, and, particularly, to combat the impacts of global warming. The… Read More >>
BlackRock Builds Aladdin Web App for Investor Research
(Editor’s note: A while back the data science division of BlackRock, which has assets under management (AUM) of $5.7 trillion as of June 30, 2017, was looking for a way to provide more dynamic access to resources, including the widely used Aladdin platform, a.k.a. Asset Liability and Debt and Derivatives Investment Network. Aladdin offers investment… Read More >>