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Article: Barclays Global Investors Launches Frontier Markets Fund for Institutional Investors.
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- March 17, 2008
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New Strategy Taps Fast-Growing, Low-Correlated Markets, Builds on Firm's History of Innovation and Prowess in Index Investing
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barclays Global Investors (BGI), one of the world's largest asset managers, today announced the launch of the BGI Frontier Markets Fund (the Fund), which provides exposure to certain pre-emerging market economies. The new Fund - which will be invested in 16 frontier markets and benchmarked to the recently introduced MSCI Frontier Markets Index - offers institutional investors the opportunity to participate in an asset category that is increasingly capturing the attention of investors globally. The Fund is a bank maintained ...