8 Jun 2011
Och-Ziff Capital Partners, a leading long/short equity hedge fund manager, has been voted the leading pan-European hedge fund in the 2011 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey.
GLG, now a unit of Man Group placed second, up from third a year ago, and Citadel Investment, the winner a year ago, came in third. Last year Och-Ziff placed fourth.
Listed companies and broker analysts based their preferred hedge fund vote on several criteria. One factor was the quality of interaction with the hedge fund. Another assessed knowledge of stocks and sectors, while a third gauged depth of market understanding. Results were based on how hedge funds performed in all areas without weighting to any particular category.
Swiss-based UBS won the award for leading pan-European broker in equity and equity-linked research for the 11th year in a row, based on a market-wide poll. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley came second and third in the category.
Also repeating its 2010 success was JPMorgan, which picked up the top fund management award. Fidelity International came second, while DEKA Investments edged into third place, up from fourth last year.
Andrew Wood, a food sector specialist at Sanford C. Bernstein, held on to one of the top individual prizes, that of leading equity analyst, for the fifth year running. JPMorgan Asset Management's Asif Jeevanjee was named top buy-side analyst, edging one place ahead of last year's winner, JPMorgan colleague Peter Lawrence.
The Extel awards are based on a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters between early March and early May. The survey took the views of buyside firms, analysts from brokerage firms and research houses, and European quoted companies. Over 3,000 firms took part.
GLG, now a unit of Man Group placed second, up from third a year ago, and Citadel Investment, the winner a year ago, came in third. Last year Och-Ziff placed fourth.
Listed companies and broker analysts based their preferred hedge fund vote on several criteria. One factor was the quality of interaction with the hedge fund. Another assessed knowledge of stocks and sectors, while a third gauged depth of market understanding. Results were based on how hedge funds performed in all areas without weighting to any particular category.
Swiss-based UBS won the award for leading pan-European broker in equity and equity-linked research for the 11th year in a row, based on a market-wide poll. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley came second and third in the category.
Also repeating its 2010 success was JPMorgan, which picked up the top fund management award. Fidelity International came second, while DEKA Investments edged into third place, up from fourth last year.
Andrew Wood, a food sector specialist at Sanford C. Bernstein, held on to one of the top individual prizes, that of leading equity analyst, for the fifth year running. JPMorgan Asset Management's Asif Jeevanjee was named top buy-side analyst, edging one place ahead of last year's winner, JPMorgan colleague Peter Lawrence.
The Extel awards are based on a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters between early March and early May. The survey took the views of buyside firms, analysts from brokerage firms and research houses, and European quoted companies. Over 3,000 firms took part.
