Fund Solutions

Established in 2005, Barclays Capital Fund Solutions (BCFS) is a specialist investment management business which provides a broad range of services to institutional clients and distributors globally.

We manage £18.49 billion* on behalf of clients globally with a dedicated team of over 100 investment professionals and operations specialists. We are also able to leverage the resources of the Barclays Group as a whole to achieve our investment aims.

Our mission

Our sole focus is delivering absolute returns for our clients on a customised basis and we can demonstrate our investment approach has proven itself consistently since inception.

We take an unbiased approach to asset allocation by exploring multiple investment scenarios through both fundamental and technical analysis to deliver absolute returns for our clients.

Our investment philosophy

We invest without prejudice...what do we mean by that?

•  In rapidly changing markets, a rigid approach to investment thinking can mean lost opportunities.
•  At Barclays, we believe the flexibility of applying a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to client portfolios provides the ability to generate excess returns in all market conditions.
• Our disciplined approach allows us to process multiple investment scenarios rapidly, going long or short a broad range of assets to generate diversified sources of uncorrelated returns.
• We also believe minimising downside volatility is key to delivering consistent returns so risk
  evaluation is managed dynamically by being embedded throughout the portfolio construction process

Implementing our investment approach

Our core investment philosophy is applied through two methods:

• A managed quantitative approach derived from models built within BCFS. There is also discretionary oversight to manage sudden changes in market conditions
• A fully discretionary approach which directly accesses the award winning research from analysts across Barclays Capital

In addition, we are able to provide synthetic exposure to a range of thematic indices created within the Barclays Group for those clients requiring specific access to purely quantitative investment solutions.

*As of 31 December 2011. Assets under management includes assets managed or sub advised for  other parts of the Barclays Group.