BofA Merrill takes top spot in Institutional Investor's Emerging EMEA Trading team ranking, adding to its gains in the Emerging EMEA research and sales teams.

Industries – Chemicals: Second

Industries – Construction & Engineering: First

Industries – Construction & Engineering: Second

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Industries – Consumer/Discretionary: First

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Industries – Consumer/Nondiscretionary: First

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Industries – Financial Services: First

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Industries – Financials: First

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Industries – Industrials: First

Industries – Industrials: Second

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Industries – Information Technology & Media: First

Industries – Information Technology & Media: Second

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Industries – Metals & Mining: First

Industries – Metals & Mining: Second

Industries – Metals & Mining: Third

Industries – Oil & Gas: Second

Industries – Real Estate: First

Industries – Real Estate: Second

Industries – Real Estate: Third

Industries – Telecommunications: First

Industries – Telecommunications: Second

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Industries – Transportation: First

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Sberbank Captures Russia Research Crown

Sberbank CIB is deemed the best for information about Russian companies, according to participants in Institutional Investor’s 2013 All-Russia Research Team survey.

Sberbank Debuts Atop Russian Trading-Services Ranking

Sberbank CIB provides the best trading services to those that invest in Russian stocks.

Sberbank Deemed Best in Russia Sales

Sberbank CIB, the firm that was created after Sberbank of Russia acquired Troika Dialog last year, slips ahead of last year's winner VTB Capital on Institutional Investor’s second annual All-Russia Sales Team.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken’s Chris Flensborg on the Evolution of Green Bonds

As green bonds become an increasingly credible investment, one of their original architects talks about their evolution.

VIDEO: Ian Bremmer Explains the New Abnormal on CNBC

Managing Equity Risk: Some Rules for the Road

The market can change its mind on short notice so a flexible approach is essential.

Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini Unveil the New Abnormal

Forget the New Normal. Five full years after the financial crisis, we’ve entered a period of increasing global uncertainty and instability that’s almost certain to trigger new crises.

Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Collapse Raises More Questions than Answers

Failure mars Hong Kong’s financial reputation, stirs political scene and prompts an investigation into potential misdeeds.

Proposed 401(k) Disclosures May Radically Change Participant Behaviour

Requiring sponsors to show plan participants their projected stream of payments could boost savings and increase use of annuities as a distribution tool.

The Structural Drivers Launching Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Part 1

The African continent as a whole has enjoyed unprecedented economic growth in recent years. We examine the drivers.

Everything You Need to Know About Treasury Floating-Rate Notes

Why issue them? How will they be structured? Who will buy them? We have all the answers.

Corporate Share Buybacks Often Disappoint Investors

Companies like Apple often tout their share repurchase programs, but as our latest Corporate Buyback Scoreboard ranking of the S&P 500 shows, the results are not always as rosy as investors are led to believe.

Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on Not Wasting a Serious Crisis

Following the 2008 financial crisis, Blackstone Group chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman used the acquisition of GSO Capital to diversify the alternative asset management firm’s businesses and help more than double its assets.

Blackstone Group’s GSO Capital: Lenders of Last Resort

GSO founders Bennett Goodman, Tripp Smith and Douglas Ostrover have become a key source of capital for non-investment-grade companies struggling to get financing, and in the process they have made a lot of money for themselves; their parent, Blackstone Group; and their investors.

New OTC Derivatives Rules Risk a Collateral Crunch

U.S. pension funds and insurance companies will soon have to use central clearing for over-the-counter derivatives trades, and similar rules take effect in Europe next year. Banks see rich opportunities in collateral management as a result of these changes, which experts say will trigger a shortage of high-quality collateral to meet clearinghouses’ requirements.

Makena's Eric Upin On Global Endowment-Style Investing

Makena Capital Management CIO Eric Upin talks about the intricacies of global endowment-style investing and the biggest challenges that lie ahead.

Yield-Hungry Insurers Venture into a Range of Alternative Investments

In search of higher returns, insurance company CIOs are building out their alternative-investment portfolios by allocating to everything from hedge funds to private equity. Many of them have outsourced the job to alternative asset managers’ specialty insurance divisions.

Crowdfunding Could Help Cleantech Attract Institutional Investors.

Crowdfunding may be a natural fit for cleantech, where conventional early-stage funding has fallen off. Last year global venture capital flows to the sector plunged 33 percent, to $6.46 billion.

EU Shelves, for Time Being, Idea of Applying Solvency II to Pensions

Commissioner Barnier suggests EU may try to revive regulation, which would show Dutch, Irish and U.K. pensions seriously underfunded.

China’s SMEs Look Increasingly to the Bond Market for Financing

Small- and medium-size companies are a small part of China’s bond market, but they are growing very rapidly.

Cyprus’s Big Gas Field May Not Be the Country’s Salvation

Nicosia tried and failed to avoid a bailout by using its natural-gas discovery. Now experts question whether the country will ever effectively exploit those reserves.

A Cooperative Effort to Win the Cyberwars

In a world where corporate and government networks and websites are under the continual threat of cyberattacks, cooperation between public and private organizations is necessary but not yet sufficient to win the war.

China Slowdown? Brace Yourselves

Unless Beijing undertakes reforms, the result is likely to be a drastic economic slowdown to just 4 percent.

Malhotra Hits an Ace with Credit Suisse in Asia

Head of Credit Suisse Group’s investment banking department for Asia-Pacific, Vikram Malhotra has worked in the region for almost two decades. The Hong Kong–based banker recently led the team that worked on several M&A and financing transactions for Chinese online retail conglomerate Alibaba Group, including its $7.6 billion share buyback from U.S. Internet giant Yahoo.

Endowments Take Stock of Rising North American Oil Supplies

The International Energy Agency recently published a report forecasting a “supply shock” created by surging North American oil production. That didn’t surprise the CIOs of the University of Michigan and Notre Dame endowments, who think this abundance will have big strategic and tactical implications for energy investors.

Why Russian Investors Stay in Cyprus Despite Restructuring Hit

A generous tax treaty and a dense web of corporate relationships still attract Russian business interests to the island nation.

More Institutions Dispense with Hedge Funds As an Asset Class

The Employees Retirement System of Texas recently decided to integrate hedge fund investments across its entire $24.9 billion portfolio rather than keep them in a separate bucket. Already common among U.S. foundations and endowments, this practice is starting to gain traction with pension funds.

Third Point’s Loeb Treads Lightly in Japan

Since his New York–based firm took a $1.1 billion activist stake in Japanese conglomerate Sony Corp., hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has been deferential with CEO Kazuo Hirai. But Sony can’t ignore Loeb, who wants the company to split up its entertainment and electronics divisions.