Barclays & Roubini Launch Equity Indexes
The four indexes will cover global equities, developed markets and emerging markets.
LONDON – Investment legend Nouriel Roubini and his company, Roubini Global Economics, have paired up with Barclays to launch a series of equity indexes based on liquid stocks across a range of countries.
The four indexes will cover all-world equities, developed markets, developed markets ex-North America and emerging markets.
The underlying strategy is based on the Roubini Country Insights model, which scores countries a ranking based on an analysis of over 2500 data points from institutions such as the Bank of International Settlements and the World Bank.
These data points cover each country’s demographics, quality of education, healthcare and ability to innovate, and will look at the country’s growth potential in political and social spheres, as well as its top-down macro-economic situation.
Fabien Labouret, global head of EFS investment strategies at Barclays, said in a statement: “They will offer investors a way to differentiate between countries in today’s difficult macro-environment, and offer a tradable mechanism to gain access to enhanced beta across the globe.”
