BlackRock sells a predictive software platform used to manage $21 trillion in assets
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We just wrote a new newsletter and really were shocked by the scale of this software platform BlackRock uses and sells called Aladdin. Basically it gives predictive data and recommendations to manage risk on investments. Nothing crazy until you look into who uses these recommendations and how much money is influenced by it.
$21 trillion is about the equivalent of the US GDP, and this means that whatever recommendations the Aladdin platform makes, can change entire markets. This lines up with how we've seen investment firms treat real estate in the past three years (more than 25% of homes are bought by investment corporations). What happens when Aladdin tells investment firms to pour money into food or energy? Are we going to see (or are already seeing) the effects of that?
I’ve never heard of those before, gonna look into them.
And exactly, those charts follow each other on the larger timescales to a T