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The insiders' edge for 40 Act industry executives!
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Wednesday, January 2, 2002 Vanguard Wonders about Barclays Vanguard officials are suspicious that a Barclays (BGI) executive with making sneaky comments on a Morningstar-hosted Web message board with the goal of marketing BGI's ETFs. The anonymous "Dr. Option" posted 167 messages praising exchange-traded funds, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The report fingers Brad Zigler, BGI's former marketer for its iShares products as a suspected author of the posts. Zigler had written columns for TheStreet.com as "Doc Options" and the postings halted when a Morningstar executive contacted Zigler about the posts. It does not appear that the postings were misleading, but they do point out the depth of the marketing war emerging around ETFs. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=1506 Copyright 2002, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |