Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls
Poll of Polls: Overall results
| Rank | Total score | Economic research | Emerging market research | Risk management |
European equity research |
Asian equity research | M&A | Privatizations | ||
| 97 | 96 | Weighting: | 225 | 50 | 25 | 50 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| 1 | 1 | Merrill Lynch | 91.97 | 31.84 | 2.83 | 8.71 | 0.3 | 13.43 | 9.86 | 25 |
| 2 | * | SBC Warburg Dillon Read | 89.53 | 23.71 | 5.43 | 8.19 | 25 | 12.04 | 5.15 | 10 |
| 3 | 4 | Goldman Sachs | 85.06 | 26.25 | 1.96 | 15.8 | 4.22 | 1.39 | 24.45 | 11 |
| 4 | 3 | Citicorp | 74.7 | 25 | 25 | 24.7 | 0 | |||
| 5 | 2 | Morgan Stanley Dean Witter | 71.03 | 23.45 | 3.97 | 11.45 | 2.78 | 22.39 | 7 | |
| 6 | 8 | JP Morgan | 67.52 | 8.84 | 4.13 | 45.31 | 9.24 | |||
| 7 | 17 | Deutsche Morgan Grenfell | 47.68 | 20.91 | 3.91 | 14.23 | 6.33 | 0 | 1.3 | 1 |
| 8 | 9 | Union Bank of Switzerland | 46.25 | 11.09 | 2.17 | 16.52 | 3.01 | 3.7 | 1.74 | 8 |
| 9 | 7 | HSBC Group | 44.23 | 21.73 | 5.22 | 5.74 | 8.13 | 3.24 | 0.17 | |
| 10 | 6 | Chase Manhattan Bank | 39.25 | 11.52 | 9.13 | 17.66 | 0.94 | |||
| 11 | 13 | Credit Suisse First Boston** | 30.33 | 3.39 | 0 | 4.67 | 2.41 | 13.86 | 6 | |
| 12 | † | Salomon Smith Barney | 28.62 | 0.35 | 4.78 | 0.6 | 13.88 | 9 | ||
| 13 | 11 | Jardine Fleming | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||
| 14 | 28 | Dresdner Kleinwort Benson | 19.7 | 7.22 | 0.11 | 4.22 | 0.15 | 8 | ||
| 15 | 15 | NatWest Group | 19.05 | 9.34 | 0.22 | 4.38 | 5.12 | 0 | ||
| 16 | 12 | Crédit Lyonnais | 16.67 | 0 | 0 | 16.67 | 0 | |||
| 17 | 16 | Bank of America | 15.53 | 4.7 | 2.61 | 8.23 | 0 | |||
| 18 | 18 | Lazard Frères | 15.09 | 0 | 0 | 15.09 | ||||
| 19 | 19 | Lehman Brothers | 13.89 | 2.03 | 0.99 | 0.3 | 10.57 | 0 | ||
| 20 | 14 | ING Barings | 13.77 | 0.62 | 0.65 | 0 | 12.5 | 0 | ||
| 21 | †† | Bankers Trust Alex Brown | 13.54 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 8.88 | 3.43 | |||
| 22 | 26 | ABN Amro Hoare Govett | 10.62 | 2.34 | 1.96 | 2.67 | 1.81 | 1.85 | 0 | |
| 23 | 21 | Standard Chartered Bank | 9. | |||||||
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