BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) reports that it has now strengthened its liquid alternative platform with the recent roll-out of the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF (Nasdaq:IALT), which is described as a multi-strategy alternative fund meant to deliver “differentiated” sources of return across market cycles via the “transparency” of an ETF. As mentioned in the announcement, BlackRock is one of the providers of liquid alternative strategies in the US, reportedly claiming more than 50% of inflows YTD.
IALT aims to deliver returns across various market cycles with a relatively lower correlation to traditional markets via “a multi-asset approach that blends BlackRock’s alpha-seeking streams across liquid alternative strategies such as equity market neutral, diversified bonds and managed futures.”
The Fund leverages data sources in order to assess thousands of securities in near real time, “recalibrating the portfolio to adjust to market conditions.”
Managed by the team behind liquid alternative strategies such as the BlackRock Global Equity Market Neutral Fund (BDMIX) and the BlackRock Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund (BIMBX), IALT draws on the “capabilities of BlackRock’s $378B Systematic investment platform.”
BlackRock Systematic combines human insight with data analytics, leveraging AI and Large Language Models, “to pursue alpha across a spectrum of strategies from benchmark-aware return strategies to low-correlation alpha hedge funds.”
With $5 trillion+ in assets across its ETF platform, including over $100 billion in active ETFs, BlackRock remains “committed to expanding investor choice amid today’s evolving market dynamics.”
As ETFs continue to gain momentum, BlackRock projects that global assets in this category will more than “quadruple to $4.2 trillion by 2030, highlighting their growing role in modern portfolio construction.”
BlackRock’s purpose is to help consumers experience financial well-being.
As a fiduciary to investors and a provider of financial technology, they help investors build up their savings that “serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.”
iShares unlocks opportunity across markets “to meet the evolving needs of investors.”
With significant experience, a global line-up of exchange traded funds (ETFs) and around $5.2 trillion in AuM as of Sept 30, 2025, iShares “continues to drive progress for the financial industry.”
iShares funds are reportedly enabled by the “portfolio and risk management of BlackRock.”
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