- Barclays (NYSE:BCS) began weighing its options on the unit - Index Portfolio and Risk Solutions - after being approached late last year by MSCI, reports Bloomberg. Expected to make an offer is CME Group, which has also approached the bank about IPRS.
- The Aggregate Bond Index (ETF: AGG) may be the best known benchmark managed by IPRS, which also has a set of indexes acquired as part of Barclays' purchase of assets from Lehman after the collapse.
- The business could fetch around $400M, say Bloomberg's sources.