Plus, others are poised to enter with their versions, such as Barclays Global Investors and T.
In 2004 alone, 11% of surviving plans were frozen to new contributions, according to Barclays Global Investors.
Barclays Global Investors, for example, has created ETFs that are available in the U.S., Europe and Canada.
IShares, a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors, set its plan to take over sponsorship of Landis' team earlier this year.
The takeover of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) by BlackRock, finalised on June 16th, will create the world's largest asset manager.
O. of Barclays Global Investors, but kept her seat on the Hewlett-Packard board, where she became chairman of the audit committee.
She entered the banking industry as a temporary secretary at Wells Fargo and rose to become global chief executive of Barclays Global Investors.
She eventually advanced to become chief executive of Barclays Global Investors.
Barclays decided to sell the 19.6% stake in BlackRock that it had obtained as part of its deal selling Barclays Global Investors to the asset-management company in 2009.
Indeed, Mr Bernstein seeks to show how financial giants such as Barclays Global Investors and Goldman Sachs Asset Management have built on the insights developed by the academics.
IShares, a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors (nyse: BCS - news - people ), set its plan to take over sponsorship of Landis' team earlier this year.
"When you look at global trends, ETFs are becoming one of the dominant investment products outside the U.S., " says Wendy Elwell, a principal at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco.
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" Steven Schoenfeld, head of international equity strategies for Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco says the current "opposition will add a new layer of concern at the underwriter level.
Recently, BlackRock bought Barclays Global Investors from British lender Barclays ( BCS), in what stands as one of the biggest post-crisis bank deals as some were selling assets to raise capital.
There isn't an actively managed U.S. mutual fund that invests solely in Australia, but there is an exchange-traded fixed basket of Aussie stocks, the Ishares Morgan Stanley Capital Index Australia Index Fund from Barclays Global Investors.
In Britain, Barclays Global Investors, part of the banking group, has become the world's fourth-biggest asset manager after acquiring Wells Nikko, an index-fund provider that was itself the product of a joint venture between an American and a Japanese firm.
Investors are gradually extending risk, according to a survey of more than 350 global investors conducted by Barclays.
The four iShares index funds (see table below), issued by the Global Investors unit of Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ), sport a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.15 versus open-end bond fund averages of around 1.00 and the 0.20 charged by low-cost leader Vanguard.
She entered the banking industry as a temporary secretary at Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ) and rose to become global chief executive of Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) Global Investors.
Lavine comes from Barclay's Global Investors, the fund complex of Britain's Barclays that happens to be among the biggest managers of ETFs.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan pleaded his case on Monday in a highly anticipated presentation at the Barclays Capital Global Financial Services Conference and while he did not announce any big news, he seems to have impressed investors.
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