Barclays Stockbrokers and Citywire Join Forces to Give Investors the Best Selection of Funds

LONDON, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Barclays Stockbrokers (https://www.barclaysstockbrokers.co.uk/Investment-Choices/Funds/pages/Funds-Home.aspx) and Citywire (http://citywire.co.uk/) have teamed up to provide investors with a specially-selected list of the funds that Citywire believes offer the best investment opportunities.

Visitors to the Barclays Stockbrokers website (https://www.barclaysstockbrokers.co.uk/Investment-Choices/Funds/pages/Funds-Home.aspx) can now browse Citywire Selection (http://citywire.co.uk/money/selection), a carefully chosen list of some 96investment opportunities, chosen by the fully-independent research team at Citywire.

The Citywire Selection (http://citywire.co.uk/money/selection)picks span a wide variety of asset classes, from UK equities to bonds and from Global Emerging Markets to commodities.

'Citywire Selectionis already a big hit with private investors, advisers and wealth managers on the Citywire website,' said Citywire head of research Jonathan Miller. 'Teaming up with Barclays Stockbrokers will bring our work to a much wider audience.'

'Over the last 25 years Barclays Stockbrokers has been developing its offering and takes pride in the independent, transparent and insightful investment research that we provide to our clients,' said Alastair Thaw, Director, Barclays Stockbrokers.

'We are continuing this tradition through our collaboration with Citywire by making their independent Citywire Selection funds research available to our clients. I am excited about this addition to our suite of investment insight, available to empower our clients to take greater control of their investments.'

Notes to editors

To see Citywire Selection at Barclays Stockbrokers, visit http://bit.ly/BarcCWSelection

About Citywire

Citywire (http://www.citywire.co.uk) is one of Britain's most innovative financial publishers, bringing news, comment, analysis, data, video, magazines and events to private investors, financial advisers and wealth managers in the UK and internationally

About Barclays Stockbrokers

Barclays Stockbrokers is the UK's largest execution-only retail broker, offering retail investors a wide range of products including shares, funds, ETFs, CFDs, Structured Products, Financial Spread Trading, covered warrants, trading BARXdirect: FX, and investment accounts like SIPP and ISAs.  Barclays Stockbrokers enables investors to trade in both certificated and nominee shares. 

Barclays Stockbrokers holds the following current awards:

• 2011 Best Stockbroker for Frequent Traders - Investors Chronicle
• 2011 Best Self Select ISA - Shares magazine
• 2010 Best Execution-Only Broker - Shares magazine
• 2010 Stockbroker of the Year - Investors Chronicle
• 2010 Best Stockbroker for Customer Service - Investors Chronicle
• 2010 Best Self-Select ISA Provider of the Year - Investors Chronicle
• 2010 Best Stockbroker for AIM Sharedealing - Investors Chronicle
• 2010 Best Stockbroker for Frequent Traders - Investors Chronicle

For further information about Barclays Stockbrokers, please visit our website

https://www.barclaysstockbrokers.co.uk/Pages/index.aspx

Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/BarclaysStock

For further information
Citywire:
Jonathan Miller
jmiller@citywire.co.uk
+44(0)20-7840-2278

Barclays Stockbrokers:
Louise Pancott
Louise.pancott@barclayswealth.com
+44(0)20-3134-7303