Poll of polls: Underwriting

Rank			Total score	Overall capital raising	Bonds	MTNs	ECP	Equities
97	96	Weighting:	400	75	125	30	20	150
1	2	Merrill Lynch	269.68	66.41	73.77	29.95	1.92	97.62
2	1	Goldman Sachs	219.04	31.25	37.87	13.38	2.31	134.23
3	4	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter	206.38	32.81	35.95	11.2	0	126.42
4	5	JP Morgan	201.12	75	88.84	20.58	1.15	15.54
5	*	SBC Warburg Dillon Read	185.92	50	55.91	4.33	20	55.68
6	6	Credit Suisse First Boston**	171.69	39.84	43.51	4.5	1.54	82.3
7	7	Deutsche Morgan Grenfell	103.45	23.44	49.95	8.98	4.79	16.29
8	8	Union Bank of Switzerland	94.78	15.63	22.59	2.02	6.15	48.39
9	9	ABN Amro Hoare Govett	73.02	16.41	29.21	1.99	2.47	22.96
10	10	Lehman Brothers	67.85	12.5	26.12	13.37	5	10.86
11	56	Credito Italiano	58.72		58.72	0	0	0
12	†	Salomon Smith Barney	48.38	18.75	17.17	2.44	0	10.02
13	11	Nomura Securities	47.5	23.44	19.67	1.91	0	2.48
14	14	HSBC Group	47.2	16.41	22.24	0.33	0	8.22
15	22	Banque Paribas	45.82	8.59	18.79	0.03	0	18.42
16	17	Dresdner Kleinwort Benson	34.34	0.78	7.12	1.83	0	24.61
17	32	Istituto Mobiliare Italiano	29.55		18.93	0.82	0	9.8
18	20	Chase Manhattan Bank	27.48	7.03	13.09	3.9	3.46	0
19	28	Nikko Securities	26.2	10.94	10.53	1.21	0	3.52
20	27	ING Barings	23.48	6.25	4.4	0.89	0.38	11.56
21	13	Barclays Capital***	21.81	3.13	15.06	0	3.62	0
22	18	Citicorp	21.05	7.03	10.26	0.68	3.08	0
23	23	Société Générale	20.54	3.13	7.01	0.9	0	9.51
24	36	Banque Nationale de Paris	18.19	1.56	6.92	0	0	9.71
25	75	Banca Commerciale Italiana	17.76	1.56	16.2	0	0	0
† Salomon Brothers ranked 15, Smith Barney ranked 45 SBC Warburg ranked 3 includes equity & M&A interests acquired from Barclays **excludes parts of BZW sold to Credit Suisse First Boston

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