Barclays Global Investors
Key Facts
Abbreviation
BGI
Pronunciation
/ˈbɑrkliz ˈgloʊbəl ˌɪnˈvɛstərz/
Category
Business
Related Field
Investments
Examples in Context
- Assets invested globally in exchange traded funds have reached a record high of $ 862bn ( 600bn ) on the back of the partial recovery in stock markets and the continuing strong demand for passive investment, according to data from Barclays Global Investors(BGI).
- This year it hawked the family silver : the sale of Barclays global investors will lift its core tier one capital ratio to 8.8 per cent.
- ' We are in a secular bear market,'says Russ Koesterich, head of investment strategy at Barclays Global Investors(BGI) in San Francisco, using Wall Street jargon for this kind of prolonged weak period.
- Jose Wynne, head of global FX strategy at Barclays, says investors looking for a firmer signal of sustained dollar strength should wait for it to rally against a broader pool of currencies, including those of emerging nations.
- Tim bond, global head of asset allocation at Barclays Capital, was more dismissive, arguing that it was impossible to generalise about the motivation of the new investors.
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