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Sunday, 08/12/2007 10:41:10 PM

Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:41:10 PM

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WSJ article on Barclays Global, IDCC's second largest institutional investor. Seems they will be giving an update tomorrow on the recent performance of one or more of their hedge funds. I'm not a WSJ subscriber, but here's the free preview:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118696001899395473.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

It's 'Challenging' for Barclays Fund
By Carrick Mollenkamp and Ian McDonald
Word Count: 880 | Companies Featured in This Article: Goldman Sachs Group, Bear Stearns, Barclays, ABN Amro Holding

Quantitative funds, which rely on computer models to make market bets, roiled the markets last week, with several such funds facing losses. Early this week, managers of several high-profile funds will start explaining themselves.

Barclays Global Investors, one of the world's biggest fund managers, with $2 trillion in assets under management, is expected by tomorrow to provide investors its weekly update for its 32 Capital Fund Ltd. The fund's performance has been "challenging," but it hasn't faced large-scale redemption requests from clients or liquidations of its holdings, a person familiar with the fund said.

And Goldman Sachs Group Inc., whose ...



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