Corporate Profile for Barclays Global Investors, dated May 1, 1998.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: May 1, 1998
Company Name: Barclays Global Investors
Address: 45 Fremont Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
or
P.O. Box 7101
San Francisco, CA 94120-7101
Main Telephone
Number: 415/597-2000
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.barclaysglobal.com
Co-Chairs: Frederick L.A. Grauer and Patricia C. Dunn
Chief Financial
Officer: Geoffrey Fletcher
Public Relations
Contact: Diane Paul
Business number: 415/597-2048
Industry: Financial Services/Investment Management
Company description: Barclays Global Investors Barclays Global Investors is a subsidiary of British-based Barclays Bank which is in the investment management industry. It is the largest corporate money manager in the world, with over £936 billion (US$1.77 trillion) under management as of March 2006[1]. is the world's largest institutional investment manager and an innovator in quantitative quantitative /quan·ti·ta·tive/ (kwahn´ti-ta?tiv) 1. denoting or expressing a quantity. 2. relating to the proportionate quantities or to the amount of the constituents of a compound. investing. BGI's investment strategies encompass indexing as well as advanced active strategies such as tactical asset allocation Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) Portfolio strategy that allows active departures from the normal asset mix according to specified objective measures of value. Often called active management. It involves forecasting asset returns, volatilities, and correlations. and quantitative active strategies. Our investment philosophy is to apply science and technology to investment management in order to achieve highly controlled, cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. investment results. We serve institutional clients around the world, primarily corporate and governmental pension funds, university endowments, and charitable foundations. Barclays Global Investors' work is felt by tens of millions of active and retired workers and thousands of organizations worldwide. Barclays Global Investors employs experts in investments, technology, management and administration. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with offices in the world's most important market centers, Barclays Global Investors is capable of both investing worldwide and serving the special needs of clients in any locality 1. locality - In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory. 2. . CONTACT: Barclays Global Investors |
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