Barclays’ outsider tries to settle in

Barclays' appointment of investment banker Bob Diamond as chairman of Barclays Global Investors last summer indicated the group's commitment to fund management. But can BGI, which only contributes a fraction of Barclays' profits, gain the recognition it wants?

IT CAN’T BE easy being a fund manager in the Barclays group. In the investment world Barclays Global Investors is huge. But in the context of the bank it’s small fry.

Last year, when a lot of investment houses were struggling, BGI’s profits were up 41%. It made £110 million. But the group’s investment bank, Barclays Capital, made £593 million and pre-tax profits of the group as a whole were £3.2 billion.

In the previous year BGI made £71 million out of group profits of £4.1

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