 Deborah Fuhr
- Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy, Barclays Global Investors.
Prior to joining BGI, Deborah A. Fuhr worked as Managing Director and Head of the Investment Strategies Group at Morgan Stanley in London, from May 1997 to June 2008. The unit advised institutional investors globally and produced analytical research concerning client implementation of a wide range of investment products and strategies. These included Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) based on equity, fixed income and commodity indices globally; Optimised Portfolios As Listed Securities; certificates; swaps; futures; Index Funds; out-performance trades; securities lending; and yield enhancement trades.
Ms Fuhr's group at Morgan Stanley 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. (She will continue to publish reports of a similar nature at BGI.)
For the past four years, Ms Fuhr's 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, Ms Fuhr has in the same survey won the award for the Greatest Overall Contribution to the development of the Global ETF industry. In 2007, 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.
Previous to Morgan Stanley, Ms Fuhr had served as Director of International Accounts at Technimetrics (now Thomson Reuters). She also served in various roles at JMB Institutional Realty (acquired by Heitman in 1994) as well as at Greenwich Associates. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Indexes, and on the International Advisory Committee of the Egyptian Stock Exchange
Ms Fuhr has an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Connecticut.
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