Corporate Profile for Barclays Global Investors, datedMay 1, 1998.

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Published Date:   May 1, 1998

Company Name:     Barclays Global Investors

Address:          45 Fremont Street
                  San Francisco, CA 94105
                  or
                  P.O. Box 7101
                  San Francisco, CA 94120-7101

Main Telephone
 Number:          415/597-2000

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.barclaysglobal.com

Co-Chairs:        Frederick L.A. Grauer and Patricia C. Dunn

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Geoffrey Fletcher

Public Relations
 Contact:         Diane Paul
 Business number: 415/597-2048

Industry:         Financial Services/Investment Management

Company description:

Barclays Global Investors is the world's largest institutional investment manager and an innovator in quantitative investing. BGI's investment strategies encompass indexing as well as advanced active strategies such as tactical asset allocation and quantitative active strategies. Our investment philosophy is to apply science and technology to investment management in order to achieve highly controlled, cost-effective investment results.

We serve institutional clients around the world, primarily corporate and governmental pension funds, university endowments, and charitable foundations. Barclays Global Investors' work is felt by tens of millions of active and retired workers and thousands of organizations worldwide.

Barclays Global Investors employs experts in investments, technology, management and administration. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the world's most important market centers, Barclays Global Investors is capable of both investing worldwide and serving the special needs of clients in any locality.

CONTACT: Barclays Global Investors