Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Barclays Global ETFs Shunned by Fidelity, Vanguard 401(k) Retirement Plans

(Bloomberg) -- Barclays Global Investors is
struggling to break into the $2.4 trillion 401(k) market because
the biggest U.S. retirement-plan managers won't offer exchange-
traded funds, the company's hottest-selling product.

Barclays Global is the world's largest ETF manager, with
assets increasing an average 86 percent annually in the past six
years to $363 billion. Less than 1 percent of the San Francisco-
based company's exchange-traded funds are in 401(k) retirement
plans.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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