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What’s New In Investments, Funds? – Brown Advisory, Walker Crips, BlackRock Aladdin
Editorial Staff
7 May 2026
Brown Advisory With an expansion of private credit data, benchmarks and analytics, Preqin Pro enables investors to analyse market trends, fund dynamics and underlying assets together, across closed-end funds, business development companies (BDCs) and semi-liquid vehicles, all within a unified research and analytics experience. As private credit markets scale and diversify, clients are seeking clearer, more connected insights across liquidity, risk and performance. The latest enhancements to Preqin begin to address a market gap, delivering consistent, standardised intelligence across private credit that underscores BlackRock’s commitment to evolving its global platform to meet client needs across their entire portfolio. “Private credit is becoming a core part of portfolios, but the data remains fragmented, making it difficult for investors to understand their risk and benchmark their performance,” said Kunal Khara, global head of Aladdin Product at BlackRock. “This expansion brings together Aladdin technology with Preqin and eFront data and analytics to create a more unified, transparent and robust view of private credit. It’s another step toward our mission to build a more connected ecosystem that helps clients better understand risk, performance and opportunity across their whole portfolio.” The launch is the first in a series of product enhancements that will deliver Aladdin’s mission to help clients capture the expanding opportunity in private credit, aiming to bring a greater level of transparency through data, analytics and reporting across the whole portfolio. BlackRock Aladdin® – inclusive of the Aladdin platform, eFront®, Aladdin Wealth™, and Preqin – enables institutional investors to make more informed decisions by providing a common data language across the whole portfolio.
, a tech-driven platform, has announced new private credit capabilities available on Preqin, marking the first step in a broader effort to bring greater transparency, analytical depth, and a single connected view of data to the private credit space.