Contributing Member of the Financial & Business Services Councils

Names and details of certain GLG News authors are available only to GLG Clients and Council Members. GLG News authors are subject-matter experts within the GLG Councils and are available for expert consulting - by phone, in-person, or written analysis. To find out how to become a GLG client or Council Member, click here.

GLG News by this Author

Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.

GLG News is now G+ Insights

G+ is a community for professionals, academics and entrepreneurs to connect through online discussions and in-person meetings. You will continue to see G+ Insights (formerly GLG News) here as well as on the G+ website, where you can share and discuss the G+ Insights you read.

An Opposite Perspective -- iShares Should be Sold, not BGI -- BGI is the "Beating Heart"

May 22, 2009

Analysis of:Barclays shares surge on BGI sale hopes | www.ft.com

The article under review mistakenly views iShares as the "beating heart" of BGI; quite the opposite is true. In my response, I review the historical importance of BGI to Barclays and present my viewpoint that whereas a sale of iShares is highly timely with respect to enhancing Barclay's equity tier one capital ratio, at the same time I perceive the sale of the entire BGI entity as distinctly inadvisable. Ron Samuel President Underwood Asset Management, Inc. Chicago Phone (773)-775-2598 Email: ronsamuel@sbcglobal.net

Page : 11 to 1 of 1

Subscribe to Updates

By RSS