Product & Service Launches – 7/9/2026

Vanguard Adviser Framework Available on Envestnet Wealth Management Platform

Through a strategic relationship, the Vanguard Group Inc. is offering its Advisor’s Alpha framework to the wealth management platform of Envestnet Inc., a financial technology company.

The portfolio management tools are designed to help financial advisers provide clients more personalized after-tax outcomes, including tax-loss harvesting, through a scalable model portfolio approach.

Vanguard will also participate in Envestnet’s Fund Strategist Tax Management Advantage program, allowing advisers using fund strategist portfolios, including Vanguard active-passive model portfolios, to align with client-specific tax sensitivity preferences.

BlackRock Aladdin Expands Preqin Benchmarks, Indexes of Private Markets

BlackRock Aladdin expanded its Preqin Benchmarks and Indices solutions to give investors access to indexes and customizable, transparent peer benchmarks for private markets.

Preqin’s suite captures data from more than 140,000 peer benchmarks and closed-end indexes. The new indexes cover more than 10,000 funds holding more than $13 trillion in assets.

Available to clients of Preqin Pro, Aladdin, eFront and Aladdin Wealth, the tool supports a broad range of private markets benchmarking needs, from peer comparison and manager evaluation to policy benchmarking and investment reporting. The benchmarking can be embedded into portfolio construction, performance measurement, governance and reporting workflows.

It is also available through API-based integrations and redistribution arrangements for wealth managers and third-party platforms.

Bloomberg Provides Pre-Trade Analysis API for Trading Workflows

Bloomberg launched its multi-asset Pre-Trade Transaction Cost Analysis API, which allows clients to bring pre-trade execution intelligence and analytics directly into their proprietary fixed-income and equities trading and investment workflows.

Developed using deep domain expertise, unique datasets and client collaboration, Bloomberg’s Pre-Trade TCA API is designed to bring actionable trading intelligence to traders at scale.

The analytics are powered by datasets and market insights developed over 15 years of execution research and collaboration with hundreds of buy-side and sell-side firms.

Alight, BNY Offer Support for Retirement Plan Administration, Investing

Alight Inc., a benefits administration provider of health, retirement and other employee benefits leave tools, and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp., a global financial services platform, collaborated on a new product designed to provide plan administration and investing support to defined contribution and defined benefit plan sponsors and participants.

BNY’s suite of retirement-focused investment products, including stable value, target-date, active and index funds, can be incorporated into Alight’s DC and DB recordkeeping with a modern brokerage window built on custody infrastructure.

Alight’s recordkeeping and participant experience platform, Alight Worklife, allows sponsors to manage plan administration, participant interactions and investment access.

Client engagement will be led by Alight relationship managers, who will coordinate with BNY subject-matter experts to deliver client support.