BRAD
POPE, CFA
Business Development Officer, Principal
Barclays Global Investors
Brad Pope is a business development officer in BGI 's iShares Sales
Group. Brad focuses on institutional investors with an emphasis on pension
plans and broker/dealers. Prior to his current role, Brad was head of
BGI's Index Strategy and Research group. Brad has 16 years of investment
management experience focused primarily on index and quantitative investment
techniques. Brad was also the head of the US Equity Index Portfolio
Management group at BGI.
Brad
joined BGI in 1998, from TradeStreet Investment Associates, where he
served as a Senior Portfolio Manager. From 1993 to 1996, Brad was a
vice president in the Nations Bank Investment Management Division, Fixed
Income Management Group, and had served as an assistant vice president
in the Quantitative Services Group since 1988. Brad holds the Chartered
Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Association of
Investment Management and Research. Brad received a BBA in finance from
the University of Texas at Austin.
