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Poll of Polls: Warburg's excellently average performance

Poll of Polls: Warburg’s excellently average performance

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Jan   Total score FX research Risk management Credit research European equity research Asian equity research M&A
99 98 Weighting: 300 60 60 60 30 30 60
1 * Warburg Dillon Read 158.4 30.0 22.3 52.1 30.0 17.4 6.7
2 1 Merrill Lynch 152.1 20.6 10.1 49.5 18.0 14.7 39.2
3 6 JP Morgan 138.2 20.2 49.9 47.8 1.3 – 18.9
4 ** Citi Group 136.5 60.0 40.8 8.6 1.3 0.5 25.3
5 3 Goldman Sachs 118.9 19.9 18.3 14.9 13.3 1.1 51.4
6 7 Deutsche Bank 111.3 47.0 25.8 27.0 5.3 – 6.1
7 5 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 89.6 7.2 5.8 14.1 26.0 3.2 33.4
8 10 Chase Manhattan Bank 72.5 38.0 23.2 6.6 – – 4.7
9 9 HSBC Group 50.4 17.4 11.8 2.4 12.0 6.8 –
10 11 Credit Suisse First Boston 38.0 4.8 5.7 5.7 0.0 – 21.8
11 22 ABN Amro 37.5 12.5 10.5 1.3 13.3 0.0 –
12 *** Bank of America 33.3 18.9 9.5 – – – 4.9
13 16 Crédit Lyonnais 30.4 0.4 0.0 – – 30.0 –
14 35 Société Générale 27.0 6.3 4.2 0.0 10.7 5.3 0.6
15 26 Barclays Capital 27.0 11.5 2.2 13.3 – – –
16 21 BT Alex Brown 25.7 2.5 3.9 1.6 15.3 – 2.3
17 20 ING Barings 24.5 2.2 1.4 5.1 – 15.8 –
18 13 Flemings 22.8 0.1 0.1 – – 22.6 –
19 15 NatWest Group 22.2 14.9 5.9 1.0 – – 0.5
20 19 Lehman Brothers 20.0 0.0 0.1 6.6 1.3 – 11.8
21 31 Royal Bank of Canada 14.5 10.7 3.1 0.1 – – 0.5
22 14 Dresdner Kleinwort Benson 12.7 5.9 3.4 1.1 2.0 0.0 0.2
23 24 Banque Paribas 11.9 3.0 1.1 3.0 2.7 2.1 0.1
24 23 Standard Chartered Bank 9.2 6.3 2.9 – – – –
25 25 Bear Stearns 9.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 – – 8.4
26 36 Commerzbank 8.4 5.8 1.1 0.2 1.3 – –
27 27 Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette 8.3 – – – – – 8.3
28 29 Schroders 6.9 – 0.4 – 4.0 – 2.4
29 34 CIBC-Wood Gundy 6.6 2.6 2.3 1.2 – – 0.6
30 30 Crédit Agricole Indosuez 6.3 1.7 1.0 – – 3.7 –
31 45 Banque Nationale de Paris 5.9 4.8 0.9 0.2 – – –
32 18 Lazard Frères 5.9 – – – – – 5.9
33 28 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi 5.3 4.6 0.7 – – – –
34 39 Industrial Bank of Japan 5.2 4.3 0.6 0.3 – – –
35 – S-E-Banken 4.3 3.2 1.1 – – – –
36 – PaineWebber 3.6 0.1 – 3.4 – – 0.1
37 40 Sumitomo Bank 3.4 0.1 0.0 3.3 – – –
38 † Hypovereinsbank 3.3 1.1 0.2 2.0 – – –
39 66 WestLB 2.8 1.5 1.0 0.3 – – –
40 – Standard Bank 2.7 1.6 1.1 – – – –
41 42 Rabobank 2.6 2.3 0.4 – – – –
42 49 TD Securities 2.5 2.2 0.2 – – – –
43 – Moody’s 2.3 – – 2.3 – – –
44 53 Royal Bank of Scotland 2.2 1.7 0.5 – – – –
45 †† KBC Bank 2.1 1.9 0.2 – – – –
46 32 First Chicago NBD 2.0 1.6 0.2 0.2 – – –
47 – Rothschild Group 1.9 – – – – – 1.9
48 – ABSA Bank 1.7 1.0 0.7 – – – –
49 – Generale Bank 1.7 1.4 0.2 – – – –
50 54 Den Danske Bank 1.6 1.5 0.1 – – – –
51 47 Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations 1.6 0.6 – 1.1 – – –
52 63 Bank of Montreal 1.6 0.9 0.4 – – – 0.3
53 – American Express Bank 1.6 1.1 0.5 – – – –
54 38 AIG International 1.5 1.5 0.0 – – – –
55 41 General Re 1.5 – 1.5 – – – –
56 – Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank 1.5 0.2 – 1.2 – – –
57 – Nedbank 1.4 1.2 0.2 – – – –
58 – Compagnie Parisienne de Réescompte 1.4 – – 1.4 – – –
59 – Bank Austria/Creditanstalt 1.4 – 0.1 1.3 – – –
60 46 Nomura Securities 1.3 – – 0.2 – 1.1 –
61 – National Australia Bank 1.1 0.8 0.3 – – – –
62 – Norddeutsche Landesbank 1.1 – – 1.1 – – –
63 – MeesPierson 1.0 – 0.9 – – – 0.2
64 – Wasserstein Perella 1.0 – – – – – 1.0
65 – Svenska Handelsbanken 0.9 0.5 0.4 – – – –
66 – Nomura Trust Bank 0.9 0.6 0.2 – – – –
67 52 Fuji Bank 0.9 0.9 – – – – –
68 65 Den norske Bank 0.8 0.2 0.6 – – – –
69 – Sal Oppenheim 0.8 0.1 – 0.7 – – –
70 – Unibank 0.7 0.7 0.0 – – – –
71 – Banque Bruxelles Lambert 0.7 0.3 0.4 – – – –
72= – Bank Julius Baer 0.7 – – – 0.7 – –
72= – Chevreux de Virieu 0.7 – – – 0.7 – –
72= – Europe Cy 0.7 – – – 0.7 – –
75 – Grieg Middleton 0.7 – – – 0.7 – –
76 – Bank of Scotland 0.6 0.6 – – – – –
77 64 Lloyds Bank 0.6 0.6 – – – – –
78 – Commonwealth Bank of Australia 0.6 0.6 – – – – –
79 – PriceWaterhouseCoopers 0.5 – – – – – 0.5
80 – State Street Bank 0.5 – 0.5 – – – –
81 – Standard & Poors 0.5 – – 0.5 – – –
82 – Peter J Solomon 0.5 – – – – – 0.5
83 – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya 0.4 0.4 – – – – –
84 56 Banco Santander de Negocios 0.4 0.3 0.1 – – – –
85 37 ANZ Banking Group 0.4 0.2 0.2 – – – –
86 – Westpac Banking Corp 0.4 0.4 – – – – –
87 – Bank of Nova Scotia 0.4 0.4 – – – – –
88 – Bank of New York 0.4 0.1 0.2 – – – –
89 – Tokai Bank 0.4 0.1 0.3 – – – –
90 – PNC Bank 0.4 0.2 0.1 – – – –
91 61 MeritaNordbanken 0.3 0.1 0.2 – – – –
92 – Corestates 0.3 0.2 0.1 – – – –
93 – UniCredito Italiano 0.3 0.3 0.0 – – – –
94 – Crédit Commercial de France 0.3 0.3 – 0.0 – – –
95= – Decimax 0.3 – 0.3 – – – –
95= – Sakura Bank 0.3 – 0.3 0.0 – – –
97 – Bank of Ireland 0.2 0.2 – – – – –
98= – Christiana Bank 0.2 – 0.2 – – – –
98= – NM Rothschild 0.2 – 0.2 – – – –
100 – Idea 0.2 0.2 – – – – –

* SBC Warburg Dillon Read ranked 2, UBS 8
** Citicorp ranked 4, Salomon Smith Barney 12
*** BankAmerica ranked 17, NationsBank 33
† Bayerische Vereinsbank ranked 57
†† Kredietbank ranked 48