Best borrowers

Fixed Income Investors Survey incorporating 'Best Borrowers & Fixed Income Research' 

Euromoney combined its Fixed income research survey with a Best borrowers survey asking investors to nominate the Best fixed income issuers globally and across a range of sectors and borrower types that matched categories in the research survey. The survey is therefore in two parts: Best fixed income research house and Best borrower


>Borrowers survey 2011 results

Euromoney’s Best borrowers capture the most important names and trends seen across the globe during the past 12 months. 

Subscribers to Euromoney can access:

• More than 775 issuers rated overall
• More than 50 sovereigns
• Expanded rankings by issuer type in areas such as emerging market corporates and sovereigns, and high yield issuers
• More than 100 banks 

 
A triumph for transparency
Spanish Treasury reports shift in investor attitudes
EIB's focus on investor relations pays off
Results

Overall

By region
  Western Europe
  Emerging Europe
  North America
  Latin/Central America
  Asia-Pacific/Australasia

By type
  Sovereigns
  Supranational & Agencies
  Banks
  Non-Bank Financial Institutions
  TMT
  General Industries
  Autos
  Consumer Products & Retail
  Utilities
  High Yield
  Covered Bonds & Pfandbriefe
  Emerging Market Corporates
  Emerging Market Sovereigns

Methodology


>Fixed income research survey

Institutional investors tell us which analysts have made the best calls in the past 12 months. An invaluable guide to investors looking to diversify their European portfolios. Best fixed income research house 2011: Results index


 

Best borrowers - previous results




Best borrowers poll 2010

June 2010

Best borrower poll 2009: Finanzagentur wins new borrower poll

June 2009

The latest Euromoney primary debt and new-borrower poll provides a unique insight into what borrowers really think of their underwriters and what investors think of borrowers.

Borrowers awards 2008: The world's best borrowers

June 2008

Best borrower awards 2007

June 2007

Euromoney’s borrower awards capture the most important names and trends seen across the globe during the past 12 months.

The world’s best borrowers in 2006

June 2006

Here are the bond issuers that have taken the market by storm over the past 12 months: from the IFC, punching above its weight within the World Bank group with its pioneering work in developing local bond markets, to Bayer’s use of innovative methods to maintain its credit profile while making acquisitions.

Borrowers awards 2005: Borrowers fly high through innovation

May 2005

What connects the world's best borrowers in 2005? Their ability to secure attractive funding through innovative structures or reaching out to new markets, often when the conditions are not in their favour.

Borrowers awards 2004: Best borrowers adapt to investor worries

June 2004

As Euromoney's annual awards show, best borrowers come in all shapes and sizes, winning acclaim because of their investor appeal, tight pricing, good timing, or structural ingenuity. But, as Kathryn Tully reports, activists on the buy side are developing a more formal view of the basics of an investor-friendly issuer.

Borrowers awards 2003: Bookrunners contemplate a vintage year

June 2003

Primary debt capital markets picked up so significantly in May that some bankers felt able to forecast a bumper crop of issuance for the year. But with macro events so unpredictable they weren't betting their all on that outcome.

Borrowers awards 2002: World's best borrowers

June 2002

Euromoney profiles those sovereign, agency, corporate, high yield, financial and securitization issuers that have best coped with the unprecedented volatility in international capital markets in the past year. Our writers look at Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Best borrowers of 2001

June 2001

The highly volatile debt capital markets of the past 12 months have provided an extraordinary set of challenges to borrowers, whether they be highly experienced and well-rated issuers or less creditworthy newcomers. The borrowers which Euromoney here hails as the best from across the world are those who have coped best with markets that one moment are closed, and the next eager for new issues, that one moment cry out for credit risk and yield, and the next are hostile to any but the best-rated names. Some issuers have succeeded by timing their entry into the markets shrewdly. Others have had to show abundant flexibility and innovation to raise funds when investors have been at their most risk averse. Sovereign and agency issuers have pursued the trend towards large, liquid deals, though some now fear investors are being saturated. A wide variety of lower-rated and even some high-rated names have pushed the boundaries of securitization technology in an effort to diversify funding sources. And public corporates have learned the importance of strong debt management to their equity valuations.

Best borrowers of 2000

January 2000

It's been a tough year for many borrowers in the international capital markets. Corporate issuers in particular have fallen quickly from grace, having been the market's darlings a year ago. Now fixed income investors across the world are increasingly risk-averse. Certain sectors of the primary markets, US high yield for example, are very difficult to access. In response to these troubles, many of those borrowers that bankers and investors have nominated to be awarded for their efforts in the past 12 months have reverted to a strategy first made popular by Fannie Mae two years ago. They are striving to produce large, liquid benchmark issues that will at least give investors the comfort that they can easily trade in and out.

Borrowers: Best Borrowers of 1999

June 1999

Euromoney's best borrowers of 1998

June 1998

As our awards show, the world's best borrowers have turned adversity to their advantage.

Borrowers: Euromoney's best borrowers of 1997

June 1997

The European Investment Bank, Euromoney's borrower of the year, is snapping at the World Bank's heels with careful timing and improved investor relations. Russia, best debut borrower, excited the market with its $1 billion and Dm2 billion opening salvos. While the experienced team in Buenos Aires makes Argentina our top emerging market borrower a few lines.

The world's best borrowers 1996

June 1996

The techniques that constitute state-of-the-art borrowing are growing in sophistication. But having the latest black box doesn't guarantee success. Issuers also need old-fashioned market savvy to get the lowest-cost funds. Here are the ones that combined both qualities over the past year