Blackstone is not just the biggest real estate investor in the world today, it’s the best according to the annual Euromoney survey. CBRE and Hines maintain their leading positions as advisors and developers respectively, while JPMorgan dislodges Deutsche Bank as the top real estate bank overall

Analysts at leading banks and research institutes are asked to nominate their top companies in each of the Asian countries or sectors they covered, bearing in mind market strength, profitability, growth potential and quality of management and earnings.

The Euromoney China gold investors survey was open from June 4 to July 20. All responses were collected online from investors in gold and gold-backed products from the People’s Republic of China. Euromoney received 624 responses, which were weighted to reflect the size and per capita GDP of each province: Respondents were asked to name banks whose gold investment services they used, which were given the weightings:

Activity and prices remain buoyant in China’s gold markets despite the slip in prices in the west.

A broad rebalancing of country risk perceptions has taken place this year, according to the June results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.

Since 1992 Euromoney, the world’s leading financial markets magazine, has singled out the outstanding institutions in finance. Over the years, the Awards for Excellence have evolved with the markets they cover. They now incorporate 25 global awards for banking and capital markets; and awards for the best banks and securities houses in almost 100 countries around the world.

Funding officials at borrowers in the global debt capital markets are asked to rate their top-three preferred banks in one of three categories: services to clients, major currency sectors, and by product type.