COMPANIES Senior staff at Barclays Global Investors could potentially find themselves with shares worth $1bn if Barclays decides to sell off the asset management arm.
The bank has been running a sale process for iShares, its fast-growing exchange-traded funds unit, for several weeks. On Friday, following a Financial Times report, it confirmed it had received unsolicited offers for the whole of BGI, including one from US money manager BlackRock.
