Does anyone of you hear of Barra? I will have an interview with them for the post Data Systems Analyst, Research & Data. Does anyone of you have any ideas about this position? Do you know whether it's more finance or IT-related? Thanks so much.

barra was founded back in the 1970s by barr rosenberg (previously a well known academic at berkeley - who later went his own way and now manages money with axa rosenberg) and, probably, andrew rudd (another former academic, co-author of the lovely jarrow and rudd book on options, and currently ceo)they provide high-end risk management models for mainly equity but also some interest rates, combining fundamental data (such as accounting numbers) with market data (prices, momentum, div yield)specialise in multi-factor models and spend a lot of time and effort with their datamy guess is that the position needs a mix of both finance and it skillsbe careful about any throwaway lines about the current high-court case between merrill lynch and unilever (their risk models were used by mercury asset management)offices in the us, europe and the far eastmike

Have you had the interview yet?P