Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls
| Rank | ||||||||
| 97 | 96 | 95 | Grand total (out of 1000) | Underwriting(out of 400) | Trading (out of 375) | Advising(out of 225) | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Merrill Lynch | US | 553.75 | 269.68 | 192.1 | 91.97 |
| 2 | * | 2 | SBC Warburg Dillon Read | Switzerland | 470.75 | 185.92 | 195.3 | 89.53 |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Goldman Sachs | US | 440.37 | 219.04 | 136.27 | 85.06 |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | JP Morgan | US | 417.34 | 201.12 | 162.7 | 67.52 |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Morgan Stanley Dean Witter | US | 391.77 | 206.38 | 114.35 | 71.03 |
| 6 | 6 | 12 | Deutsche Morgan Grenfell | Germany | 321.94 | 103.45 | 180.81 | |