Barclays IPRS (Index, Portfolio and Risk Solutions) research group

I've got an interview for a summer internship in this group coming up. Any idea what I should expect in the interview? Is this a quantitative role? Also, this is middle office right?

<span class='keyword_link'><a href=/company/barclays-capital>Barclays</a></span> website:
Our IPRS team is a leading provider of benchmark and investable indices, portfolio analytics, risk and attribution models, and portfolio construction tools.

POINT® – our global, multi-asset class portfolio analysis platform – features state-of-the-art equity and fixed income models and innovative integration of equity and fixed income risk. Supported by our extensive proprietary market data, POINT produces sophisticated, precise results, which are used by our global institutional clients to manage and model their portfolios. These clients also benefit from the ongoing assistance of our POINT Marketing Team.

Through our Beta/Benchmark Platform, our Index team provides fixed income, inflation-linked and swaps indices to our clients, offering unmatched market coverage and a full suite of customised solutions for benchmarking needs. The team also provides a diverse family of alpha-generating strategy indices that offer access to sources of outperformance, as well as quantitative expressions of investment strategies in markets that would otherwise be difficult to access.

 

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