The new investment bankers
Index providers have not traditionally thought of themselves as the cutting edge of financial innovation. Standard & Poor’s director of index research, Gareth Parker, even confessed his activities used to be ‘very boring’ at a ‘teach-in‘ for journalists last week.
Now, apparently, index provision is fun and exciting, to the point where Mr Parker thinks index providers are the new investment bankers.
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