Premialab, the leading independent platform for quantitative investment strategies (QIS), has announced a partnership with Aladdin, BlackRock's platform that unifies the investment management process. The initiative is designed to accelerate the adoption of QIS among institutional investors by bringing Premialab's specialist QIS data capabilities directly to common clients of both platforms.

QIS now play a central role in modern portfolio construction, and deploying them effectively requires sophisticated risk analytics and precise modelling. The partnership pairs Aladdin's capabilities with Premialab's deep QIS data and analytics expertise, giving common clients a more streamlined way to manage QIS exposures alongside the rest of their portfolios. For allocators, the practical significance is that strategy-level QIS data will sit inside the same infrastructure they already use for portfolio-wide risk and reporting, rather than in a parallel workflow.

The companies said the integration is intended to improve connectivity and reduce the operational friction that has historically constrained QIS adoption. In practice, that friction has centred on aggregating QIS positions, attributing their returns, and reporting them alongside the rest of a portfolio — the exact areas the collaboration targets through three core capabilities:

• Holdings-level transparency: more precise exposure management and aggregation of QIS strategies across the whole portfolio
• Risk analytics: granular attribution across QIS exposures, identifying the drivers of strategy returns
• Ongoing data and quality management: continuous data delivery, quality control, and risk reporting, underpinned by data sourced from 20 leading QIS banks

Together, Aladdin and Premialab are advancing a shared industry priority: making QIS more accessible to institutions worldwide.

“We are delighted to partner with Aladdin on this strategic initiative,” said Adrien Géliot, CEO of Premialab. “We are seeing a sharp rise in institutional adoption of QIS and derivatives. This partnership addresses a longstanding operational challenge that has constrained QIS adoption. By improving connectivity and reducing operational friction, we believe this unlocks meaningful new opportunities for institutional investors and their counterparties. Aladdin's scale and reach mean this integration will have a material impact on how QIS is deployed across the global institutional investment community.”

Kamya Somasundaram, Global Head of Aladdin Enterprise Partnerships at BlackRock, added: “As demand for Quantitative Investment Strategies continues to grow, our clients are looking for greater depth and precision in how these strategies are modelled, monitored and reported. Partnering with Premialab adds specialist QIS expertise to the Aladdin platform, giving our common clients faster, more efficient access to these strategies alongside the wider investment and risk infrastructure they already rely on.”

Premialab's multi-asset, multi-region platform processes more than 15 million data points daily across over 8,000 investable systematic strategies, representing approximately USD 20 trillion in client assets under management. Its proprietary dataset and analytics provide detailed risk decomposition, factor attribution, and scenario analysis. It is this dataset and analytics capability that the partnership is designed to surface inside Aladdin's risk and reporting environment for common clients of both platforms.

The announcement did not include a rollout timeline. How quickly common clients gain access to the three capabilities — and whether holdings-level transparency measurably eases the operational friction both executives describe — will be the measure of how far the partnership goes toward embedding QIS in routine institutional portfolio construction.