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...When BlackRock in 2009 swooped for Barclays Global Investors, the crown jewel was the iShares exchange-traded fund business, the biggest player in a growing industry that recently smashed past $5tn of assets...
...“It’s the death of alpha.’’ Last year investors poured $323.3bn into ETFs, and this year flows have already hit $102.6bn, according to Markit....
...After buying Barclays Global Investors for $13.5bn late last year another major acquisition is ruled out, leaving the financial giant’s management intent on increasing the $3,450bn assets it currently manages...
...Larry Fink, chief executive, said outflows from clients would continue for “at least another quarter” but he also reassured investors that the integration of Barclays Global Investors, bought by BlackRock...
...Most recently, Barclays auctioned off iShares, the exchange traded fund arm of Barclays Global Investors, and is said to be open to bids for BGI itself, having written a break clause into its deal with private...
...of year industry review from BGI....
...One type invests in the index’s stocks, quantitatively reshuffling the weights (the largest are run by Barclays Global Investors, Goldman Sachs and State Street Global Advisors), while the other buys a market...
...Barclays Capital has rolled out the US Power Index, providing investors with exposure to the US power industry and a method for hedging either regional or national wholesale power prices....
...But there are several other dynamics at play, not least the rise and rise of passive and liability driven investment, which has bolstered the top three in our survey: Legal & General, Barclays Global Investors...
...The bright spark is chief executive of Barclays Global Investors’ market-leading iShares exchange traded funds division, a key component of BGI’s surge to become the largest fund manager in the world by...
...The market is dominated by Barclays Global Investors, which manages the iShares brand of ETFs, although Lyxor, a unit of Société Générale, is also becoming a significant player....
...Global Alpha, Goldman’s flagship fund, was down 21 per cent, and North American Equity Opportunities was down 15.7 per cent....
...The UK leaders are: 8. (6) Barclays Global Investors, $19bn 9. (8) Man Group, $18.8bn 11. (14) GLG Partners, $15.8bn 14. (33) Lansdowne Partners, $14bn 22. (22) Brevan Howard, $12.1bn 26. (42) Bluecrest...
...Top funds JP Morgan: $33.1bn Goldman Sachs: $32.5bn Bridgewater Associates: $30.2bn DE Shaw: $27.3bn Farallon Capital: $26.2bn Renaissance Technologies: $26bn Och-Ziff Capital: $21bn Barclays Global...
...The head of Barclays Global Investors, the world’s biggest money manager, has said the distinction between hedge funds and the mainstream asset management business has become increasingly “arbitrary” as...
...But judging by the beady gleam in the eye of fund managers such as Barclays Global Investors, they have plans to do much the same thing here. The concept is simple enough to explain....
...But judging by the gleam in the eye of fund managers such as Barclays Global Investors, they have plans to do much the same thing here. The concept is simple enough to explain....
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