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	<title>AllAboutAlpha.com &#187; Search Results  &#187;  &#8220;barclays&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Fire, ice but not everything nice for hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/03/fire-ice-but-not-everything-nice-for-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/03/fire-ice-but-not-everything-nice-for-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the backburner for the past two years, talk of regulation and policy change to reshape the investment management industry is aplenty.]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds and investors to have a tearful reunion in 2010?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/07/hedge-funds-and-investors-to-have-a-tearful-reunion-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/01/07/hedge-funds-and-investors-to-have-a-tearful-reunion-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Capital is all but set to flow back into the hedge fund industry this year, according to a recent survey by third-party marketer Agecroft, though it will be a new and more competitive landscape that the money flows in to.]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Newsreel</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/27/holiday-newsreel/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/27/holiday-newsreel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAA Newsreels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a selection of news from the cutting room floor.]]></description>
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		<title>And the big get bigger&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/22/and-the-big-get-bigger/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/12/22/and-the-big-get-bigger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=8340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report from Barclay Capital's prime services group shows that assets are flowing in the right direction again when it comes to hedge funds. But the findings also show that not all in the hedge fund world are privy to the same good fortune.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>CME Group Overview</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/16/cme-group-overview/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/16/cme-group-overview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Rivera</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Rick Redding, CME Group
Published: September 16, 2009
Summary: A prop-trading market segment presentation.
Related Post: Fire, ice but not everything nice for hedge funds (Feb 3, 2010)
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Funds of funds shown to be mostly beta &#8211; thus demanding a much greater allocation</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/13/funds-of-funds-shown-to-be-mostly-beta-thus-demanding-10-20x-more-portfolio-allocation/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/13/funds-of-funds-shown-to-be-mostly-beta-thus-demanding-10-20x-more-portfolio-allocation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=5975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually hedge fund fund managers bristle at the suggestion that they "sell beta at alpha prices."  If this is true, then fees will have to fall.  But as a recent paper argues, volumes would also have to rise.]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Rationalization?  Financial institutions parting ways with their asset management businesses</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/03/the-coming-rationalization-financial-institutions-parting-ways-with-their-asset-management-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/09/03/the-coming-rationalization-financial-institutions-parting-ways-with-their-asset-management-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=5873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like large financial institutions are starting to dump fuel to maintain altitude...]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in some stocks should have qualified as an &#8220;extreme sport&#8221; says leading quant</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/09/investing-in-some-stocks-should-have-qualified-as-an-extreme-sport-says-leading-quant/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/07/09/investing-in-some-stocks-should-have-qualified-as-an-extreme-sport-says-leading-quant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a prominent academic showed how the S&#038;P 500 had become an "extreme" sport before it tanked last year.  This week, that same researcher turns his focus on an individual stock that we know all too well.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Friday Newsreel: You have to read it to believe it</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/06/05/friday-newsreel-you-have-to-read-it-to-believe-it/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/06/05/friday-newsreel-you-have-to-read-it-to-believe-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAA Newsreels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All the news that's fit to blog about.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Illiquidity Premium&#8221; that fuelled endowment returns falls back to 2005 levels</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/07/illiquidity-premium-that-fuelled-endowment-returns-falls-back-to-2005-levels/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/07/illiquidity-premium-that-fuelled-endowment-returns-falls-back-to-2005-levels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the secret out when it comes to endowment returns? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/05/07/illiquidity-premium-that-fuelled-endowment-returns-falls-back-to-2005-levels/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Great Unwinding: A current and prospective look at the hedge fund marketplace</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/03/01/the-great-unwinding-a-current-and-prospective-look-at-the-hedge-fund-marketplace/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/03/01/the-great-unwinding-a-current-and-prospective-look-at-the-hedge-fund-marketplace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: David Romhilt and and Michael Crook (Barclays Wealth)
Published: March 2009
About: David Romhilt, head of Manager Research and Selection, answers questions from Michael Crook, Alternatives Strategist, about the implications for hedge funds of the liquidity crisis and resulting unwinding in the hedge fund marketplace.
]]></description>
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		<title>Look what&#8217;s coming back now</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/10/look-whats-coming-back-now/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/10/look-whats-coming-back-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[130/30]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After being labeled "faddish" and "silly" and being derided as a waste of time last year, short extension and hedge fund replication strategies returned to the news cycle this week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Battle of the Quants III: Blow-by-blow</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/05/february-5-live-blogging-battle-of-the-quants-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/05/february-5-live-blogging-battle-of-the-quants-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Live from New York, it's Thursday morning!]]></description>
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		<title>A Comparison of Futures, Swaps and ETFs</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/01/a-comparison-of-futures-swaps-and-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/02/01/a-comparison-of-futures-swaps-and-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Rivera</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=6505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Barclays Global
Published: February 2009
Introduction:  This paper provides a comparative study of the three major synthetic Equity/Delta One products available to investors in the market today – futures, swaps and ETFs. It analyzes the effectiveness of all three alternatives, starting with a general overview of the products and their respective advantages and disadvantages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One for the History Books: Hedge Fund Performance in 2008</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/01/27/one-for-the-history-books-hedge-fund-performance-in-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/01/27/one-for-the-history-books-hedge-fund-performance-in-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=4477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Credit Suisse
Published: January 2009
Abstract: The hedge fund industry as a whole suffered significant losses in 2008 following a number of extraordinary events that rocked financial markets worldwide. The Broad Index, a diversified, asset weighted hedge fund index comprised of 496 underlying hedge funds, finished the year down 19%, while the MSCI World and S&#38;P [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsreel: Why the Madoff saga doesn&#8217;t support &#8220;clamping down&#8221; on HF industry, 80% of HFs gone by spring, bad things happening to good funds and other &#8216;09 predictions</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/12/28/newsreel-why-the-madoff-saga-doesnt-support-clamping-down-on-hf-industry-80-of-hfs-gone-by-spring-bad-things-happening-to-good-funds-and-other-09-predictions/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/12/28/newsreel-why-the-madoff-saga-doesnt-support-clamping-down-on-hf-industry-80-of-hfs-gone-by-spring-bad-things-happening-to-good-funds-and-other-09-predictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AAA Newsreels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=3942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[End of the Hedge Fund? Unlikely, according to Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby who writes, &#8220;Even if you define Madoff&#8217;s investment outfit as a hedge fund, which for various reasons is debatable, there&#8217;s nothing in this saga that supports clamping down on the industry.&#8221;
Hedge funds return to roots as alpha claim refuted: This prediction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build-Buy-Lease: Three Approaches to Alpha Generation</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/03/build-buy-lease-three-approaches-to-alpha-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/03/build-buy-lease-three-approaches-to-alpha-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/08/03/build-buy-lease-three-approaches-to-alpha-generation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're a traditional long-only asset manager, one expert has some advice for you. ]]></description>
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		<title>Barton Waring</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/15/barton-waring/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/15/barton-waring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hall of Fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practitioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who's Who]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=2314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barton Waring
Managing director and head of the Client Advisory Group at Barclays Global Investors.  Previously, head of Ibbotson Associates.
Bio (Yale Alumni Association)
Research (SSRN)
Relevant Postings (AllAboutAlpha.com)
     
       
]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Grinold</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/14/richard-grinold/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/07/14/richard-grinold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Foundations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hall of Fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who's Who]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=2268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Grinold
Managing Director, Advanced Strategies and Research at Barclays Global Investors. 14 years at BARRA as Director of Research, Executive Vice President, and President; and 20 years on the faculty at the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as the chairman of the finance faculty, chairman of the management science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds starting to get &#8220;voted off the island&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/06/19/hedge-funds-starting-to-get-voted-off-the-island/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/06/19/hedge-funds-starting-to-get-voted-off-the-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/06/19/hedge-funds-starting-to-get-voted-off-the-island/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In what amounts to a real-life episode of "Survivor", investors are apparently starting to vote smaller hedge funds "off the island".]]></description>
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		<title>Passive managers spark space race with launch of new satellites</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/13/passive-managers-spark-space-race-with-launch-of-new-satellites/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/13/passive-managers-spark-space-race-with-launch-of-new-satellites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding new evidence of its alleged fruitlessness, support for active management seems to be coming from an unlikely source: passive managers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, to be a fly-on-the-wall at the recent HF replication conference.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2008/03/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-the-recent-hf-replication-conference-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our intrepid "fly on the wall" buzzed into London for a major conference on hedge fund replication.  He reports from his fly-sized Blackberry.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Halloween and you know what that means for some media outlets&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/31/its-halloween-and-you-know-what-that-means-for-some-uk-media-outlets/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/31/its-halloween-and-you-know-what-that-means-for-some-uk-media-outlets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Coverage of Hedge Funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/31/its-halloween-and-you-know-what-that-means-for-some-uk-media-outlets/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's Halloween and you know what that means: spooky stories of haunted hedge funds and private equity slashers.  This year's tale is presented by the London Daily Telegraph.]]></description>
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		<title>Siegel: Carefully selecting &#8220;exotic betas&#8221; a worthwhile pursuit</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/24/siegel-carefully-selected-exotic-betas-are-worthwhile/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/10/24/siegel-carefully-selected-exotic-betas-are-worthwhile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AllAboutAlpha.com welcomes a special guest posting from one of the big names in institutional asset management, Laurence Siegel of the Ford Foundation.  Here's what he has to say about "exotic beta".]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Operational Alpha&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/20/operational-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/20/operational-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Management Fees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/20/operational-alpha/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the hedge fund industry matures, mega-managers are spinning out their back-offices into separate businesses.  And all of a sudden, back-office backwaters are irrigating alpha country. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>BGI: Why Buy Pre-Packaged Alpha &amp; Beta?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/18/bgi-why-buy-pre-packaged-alpha-beta/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/18/bgi-why-buy-pre-packaged-alpha-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/18/bgi-why-buy-pre-packaged-alpha-beta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't tell Stan Beckers that BGI is a beta shop.  He's head of "alpha management" at the firm and has been actively talking up BGI's alpha skills on the conference circuit recently.]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Bernstein&#8217;s Personal Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/03/peter-bernsteins-personal-hall-of-fame/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/06/03/peter-bernsteins-personal-hall-of-fame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Bernstein's new book "Capital Ideas Evolving" is built on a foundation of interviews with approximately 20 individuals that Bernstein feels represent the recent evolution of financial theory.]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing an LDI framework (Portable Alpha)</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/09/implementing-an-ldi-framework-portable-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/09/implementing-an-ldi-framework-portable-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dossier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liability Driven Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Posting Categories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Barclays Global Investors
Published: April 2007 (presentation)
Abstract: This presentation looks at: Constructing liability driven investment solutions; Pension scheme risks; Sources of risk – current strategies; Corporate finance theory (Black et al); LDI – practice; Liability Driven Investment = spending the risk budget wisely; Minimising long only impact; Investment efficiency in a liability context; Building block [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BGI to EU: Let us sell retail hedge funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/03/bgi-to-eu-let-us-sell-retail-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/04/03/bgi-to-eu-let-us-sell-retail-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BGI, arguably the inventors of the index fund, have told European securities regulators they want to get into the retail hedge fund business. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABN AMRO&#8217;s Asset Management Business: A moment of truth for Barclays</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/03/21/abn-amros-asset-management-business-a-moment-of-truth-for-barclays/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/03/21/abn-amros-asset-management-business-a-moment-of-truth-for-barclays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/03/21/abn-amros-asset-management-business-a-moment-of-truth-for-barclays/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like BoNY M will have to update its list of trillionaires.  Number one UBS ($2.016t) is being trumped by Barclay&#8217;s / ABN AMRO ($2.058t).  But the difference is &#8220;razor thin&#8221; at a mere $42 billion (a tad larger than the GDP of Kenya for those keeping score at home).
While it&#8217;s nice to manage more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays PhD&#8217;s Build Hedge Fund Giant Inside No. 3 U.K. Bank</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/05/barclays-phds-build-hedge-fund-giant-inside-no-3-uk-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/05/barclays-phds-build-hedge-fund-giant-inside-no-3-uk-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/05/barclays-phds-build-hedge-fund-giant-inside-no-3-uk-bank/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Edward Robinson, Bloomberg News
Published: January 5, 2007
This article provides an interesting follow-up to a Barron&#8217;s piece in October on BGI&#8217;s &#8220;Triumph of the Nerds&#8221; that also discussed the Genesis of BGI &#8211; a team that included William Sharpe, Eugene Fama, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, &#38; Barr Rosenberg.  Not since the movie &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners &amp; Losers: It Takes All Kinds to Make the Alpha Game Work</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/02/winners-losers-it-takes-all-kinds-to-make-the-alpha-game-work/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/02/winners-losers-it-takes-all-kinds-to-make-the-alpha-game-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2007/01/02/winners-losers-it-takes-all-kinds-to-make-the-alpha-game-work/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tristram Lett, Integra Capital
Published: Winter 2006, Canadian Investment Review
The term &#8220;zero sum game&#8221; generally describes a somewhat negative predicament.  For example, the field of psychology calls zero-sum games &#8221;social traps&#8221; (MAD &#8211; mutually assured destruction, being one such trap).  Generally speaking a zero-sum game (such as chess) has one winner and one loser &#8211; no ties.
As William Sharpe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling in it</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/21/rolling-in-it/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/21/rolling-in-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: The Economist
Published: November 18, 2006
The Economist has been a willing participant in the tarring of the hedge fund industry for some time.  However, this article marks a departure, in our opinion, from the magazine&#8217;s usual anti-hedge fund stance.
Still, the Economist obviously could not resist taking the usual jabs: 
&#8220;There is an old Wall Street story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiter!  What&#8217;s this hedge fund doing in my soup?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/15/waiter-what%e2%80%99s-this-hedge-fund-doing-in-my-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/15/waiter-what%e2%80%99s-this-hedge-fund-doing-in-my-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Fred Dopfel, Barclays Global Investors
Published: March 2005
This paper provides a good foundational overview of portable alpha strategies. But perhaps more importantly, it touches on what some would describe as the dirty little secret of the hedge fund industry: downside correlation.
Several academic studies have pointed to the propensity of various (uncorrelated) hedge funds strategies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Portfolio Strategies: Standing in the Alpha-Beta Parking Lot</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/12/alternative-portfolio-strategies-standing-in-the-alpha-beta-parking-lot/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/12/alternative-portfolio-strategies-standing-in-the-alpha-beta-parking-lot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/12/alternative-portfolio-strategies-standing-in-the-alpha-beta-parking-lot/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Matthew Nelson, Tower Group
Published: November 2005
(editor&#8217;s note: At AllAboutAlpha, we do all we can to ensure readers don&#8217;t get stuck having to subscribe to or purchase the content to which we link.  Whenever possible, we find free registrations or provide a free alternative versions of any for-fee content that we cover.  However, we make an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BGI CEO tells FT about &#8220;artificial distinction&#8221; between hedge and long-only</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/09/bgi-ceo-tells-ft-about-artificial-distinction-between-hedge-and-long-only/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/11/09/bgi-ceo-tells-ft-about-artificial-distinction-between-hedge-and-long-only/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Deborah Brewster, Financial Times
Published: November 9, 2006
Blake Grossman, CEO of BGI, articulates a point that is central to alpha-centric investing: that the terms &#8220;alpha&#8221; and &#8220;beta&#8221; are not synonymous with &#8220;hedge&#8221; and &#8220;long-only&#8221;.  Says FT:
&#8220;The head of Barclays Global Investors, the world&#8217;s biggest money manager, has said the distinction between hedge funds and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merrill Lynch: &#8220;New Alternatives in Alternative Investing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/21/merrill-lynch-new-alternatives-in-alternative-investing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/21/merrill-lynch-new-alternatives-in-alternative-investing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Benjamin Bowler, Heiko Ebens, John Davi &#038; Giovanni Amanti, Merrill Lynch
Published: October 18, 2006
The end is nigh!  The end is nigh!  A new report from Merrill Lynch suggests the hedge fund industry faces the dreaded &#8220;Y2011 Problem&#8221;.   
They point out that the growth trajectory for the number of US mutual funds in the 1980&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s is a dead ringer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portable alpha &#8211; Rise of the machine</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/17/portable-alpha-rise-of-the-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/17/portable-alpha-rise-of-the-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portable Alpha & Alpha/Beta Separation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/17/portable-alpha-rise-of-the-machine/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Gareth Gore, Risk Magazine
Published: October 2006
A hat tip goes out to the Kirk Report for identifying this article.  Apparently, the quant jocks at Risk Magazine have taken an interest in portable alpha not so much because of the flexibility of dividing alpha and beta, but because some newer versions of the venerable strategy involve highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triumph of the Nerds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/08/triumph-of-the-nerds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/10/08/triumph-of-the-nerds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Mark Veverka, Barron&#8217;s
Published: October 9, 2006
This article in Barron&#8217;s illustrates how the successful bifurcation of alpha and beta (and their re-combination in the form of alpha-centric investing strategies like portable alpha) leads to world domination in the money management business.  Out of nowhere in the 90&#8217;s, Barclay&#8217;s Global Investors has launched not just a massive passive management (ETF) business, but has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Investors You&#8217;ve Never Heard of &#8211; Here&#8217;s how Barclays Global beats the market&#8211;and why you can&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/09/27/the-best-investors-youve-never-heard-of-heres-how-barclays-global-beats-the-market-and-why-you-cant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Justin Fox, Fortune Magazine
Published: June 16, 2003
This article is several years old, but provides some interesting historical context to the current paradigm shift in portfolio management.  From William Sharpe, to Barr Rosenberg&#8217;s &#8220;Barr&#8217;s Bionic Betas&#8221; (eventually renamed BARRA&#8230;where was that corporate branding firm when he really needed them?), to Ronald Kahn and the triple Ph.D.&#8217;s at Barclays, this makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking Some Myths About Active Management</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/09/26/debunking-some-myths-about-active-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Barton Waring, Barclays Global Investors &#038; Laurence Siegel, The Ford Foundation
Published: June 2005, Journal of Investing
This is an excellent article that debunks several time-honuored marketing pitches used by active managers &#8211; and by extension hedge fund managers.  Waring &#038; Siegel say: 
&#8220;We strongly believe that in the presence of skill active management can be successful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liability Driven Investing: Why Pension Funds Need to Reconsider Benchmarks, Asset Allocation &amp; Risk (BGI)</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/08/15/liability-driven-investing-why-pension-funds-need-to-reconsider-benchmarks-asset-allocation-risk-bgi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Barclays Global Investors
Published: August 2006
Abstract: No one can deny that it has been a tough few years to be a pension plan sponsor. Equity returns have been uninspiring, interest rates remain low and underfunding of plans continues to be a widespread risk. Given that this situation is unlikely to change soon, pension plans are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Active Management</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/05/the-future-of-active-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Baton Waring, Barclays Global Investors
Excerpts: 

&#8220;Every portfolio has a beta component and an alpha component. In the sense that beta really is about benchmarks that represent market returns, all investing is benchmark relative investing! This is unavoidable. The protests from traditionalists notwithstanding, any and every portfolio can be and should be thought of as some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Myths about fees: The truth behind analyzing fees in the context of investment goals</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/07/04/9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Management Fees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Ronald Kahn, Matthew Scanlan, Laurence Siegel, Barclay&#8217;s Global Investors
Published: May 2006

Excerpts: 


&#8220;[Investment] research seldom focuses on fees.  As a result, several popular myths exist regarding fees.
&#8220;The first myth is that fees should be as low as possible.  This baseline myth makes some sense, yet investors who follow this rule will only hold index funds, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Myths About Fees: The truth behind analyzing fees in the context of investment goals</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2006/05/15/five-myths-about-fees-the-truth-behind-analyzing-fees-in-the-context-of-investment-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 21:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Ronald Kahn, Matthew Scanlan, Laurence Siegel
Published: May 2006
Abstract: Of the three dimensions of investment management—return, risk, and cost—
investors have direct control only over cost. Yet while investors have some control over fees, and fees make up the bulk of costs, research seldom focuses on fees. As a result, several popular myths exist regarding fees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays Global Investors</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2000/07/19/barclays-global-investors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asset Managers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays Global Investors
From corporate website: Barclays Global Investors transformed the investment industry by creating the first index strategy in 1971 and the first quantitative active strategy in 1978. After more than three decades-and with one of the best long-term track records of any active manager-we remain a leader in creating investment solutions that consistently deliver [...]]]></description>
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