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Economic Research & Market Analysis

ITG has an expert economic research and market analysis team headed by Dr. Robert Barbera.

The team provides:

  • Strategic Investment Perspectives weekly report
  • Interim reports and commentary on global and economic market developments
  • On-going consultations with Dr. Barbera by arrangement


Dr. Barbera has built a following among some of the largest investment managers based on his timely top-down global economic research, market analysis and financial forecasts. He and his team are regularly sought after by the financial media for their views on significant economic and market trends.

Institutional clients can receive regular reports and commentary from this team on global and economic market developments, and on-going consultations with Dr. Barbera are available by arrangement.

Dr. Robert Barbera's Biography

Dr. Barbera is Executive Vice President, Chief Economist at ITG. He is responsible for ITG’s global economic and financial market forecasts. Dr. Barbera has spent the last twenty-two years as a Wall Street economist, earning a wide institutional following. Dr. Barbera was Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research at Lehman Brothers, and prior to that was Chief Economist at E.F. Hutton.

Before arriving on Wall Street, Dr. Barbera served as a staff economist for U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas and as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Barbera also lectured at M.I.T. From mid-1994 through mid-1996, he was Co-Chairman of Capital Investment International, a New York based research boutique. Currently, he is an adjunct Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Barbera earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.