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Deborah A. Fuhr
Managing Director
Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy
Deborah Fuhr is the Global Head of ETF Research and
Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at Barclays Global
Investors. Under Ms Fuhr’s guidance, BGI’s ETF Research and
Implementation Strategy team is responsible for advising clients on
the implementation of asset allocation strategies using ETFs,
producing analysis and guidebooks on the global ETF industry. In
addition, the team will provide comprehensive research reports to
BGI's wide range of institutional and intermediary-based clients
concerning developing asset allocation strategies using ETFs.
Ms Fuhr is based in BGI’s London office. However, she spends a
significant portion of her time working with BGI’s extensive client base
in Europe and North America, as well as in BGI’s rapidly developing
markets such as Australasia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Prior to joining BGI in September 2008 Ms Fuhr she spent the past 11 years working at
Morgan Stanley. She was a Managing Director and head of the Investment Strategies Group
at Morgan Stanley based in London. The unit advised institutional investors globally and
wrote on the implementation and strategy on the use of Delta products - including Exchange
Traded Funds (ETFs) on equity, fixed income and commodity indices globally, OPALS
(Optimised Portfolios As Listed Securities), certificates, swaps, futures, out-performance
trades, securities lending and yield enhancement trades.
The group published four comprehensive quarterly reports: 1) ETF Global Industry Review, 2)
ETF short interest, 3) ETF options and futures and 4) ETF Global Tracking Monitor and
advised clients on the implementation of asset allocation with Delta 1 products..
For the past four years, the group has been ranked first for Exchange Traded Fund Research
by investors in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas in a global survey conducted by
ExchangeTradedFunds.com. For the past three years,
Deborah has in the same survey won the award for the Greatest Overall Contribution to the
development of the Global ETF industry. In 2007 and 2008, Ms Fuhr was named as one of
the Top 100 women in Finance, a distinguished list of the most influential women in European
Finance, by Financial News.
She is on the International Advisory Committee (IAC) Egyptian Stock Exchange and on the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Indexes.
She has an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern
University, and Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut.
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