Of the medium-term structured notes that BarCap has managed since 2008, 20% went into precious metals.
Rudloff, for example, acts as vice-chair of Russia's state controlled oil giant Rosneft alongside his chairmanship of BarCap.
Mr Miliband has called for Mr Diamond, who ran Barclays investment bank BarCap during the crucial period, to resign.
BarCap created its first CD linked to gold last September, with a five-year yield based on gold's quarterly price performance.
Sure there are encouraging signs regarding the health of the U.S. economy, but BarCap says it expects any rise in rates to remain contained this year.
Comer says BarCap also plans to expand into gold storage as part of its services for customers who want to hold a stake in the physical asset.
BarCap's Gardiner says Vanjoki's replacement could consider moving Nokia towards embracing Google's Android, the mobile operating system (OS) that is growing at many times the speed of Nokia's own OS, Symbian.
In fact, Morningstar categorizes more than 60 municipal bond mutual funds as intermediate, of which several use one of the BarCap Municipal intermediate indices or similar index as a performance benchmark.
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The FSA's managing director of enforcement and financial crime, Margaret Cole, said BarCap had committed a "serious breach", because the deposits would have been a risk if the firm had gone bust.
During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).
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