Awards & Recognition

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Publication Award Category Date
FocusEconomics Analyst Forecast Awards 2019
No.1
  • Overall: Australia, Canada, Colombia
  • Current Account: Australia
  • Fiscal Balance: Australia, China
  • GDP: New Zealand
  • Inflation: Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
No.2
  • Overall: Japan, Malaysia
  • Current Account: Hong Kong
  • Fiscal Balance: Korea
  • GDP: Colombia, Turkey
  • Inflation: Hungary
No.3
  • Current Account: Philippines
  • Exchange Rate: Colombia, Egypt
  • GDP: Canada
  • Interest Rate: Canada, Peru, Philippines, Romania
 May 2019
J-MONEY Best Research House 2018
Sectors, Large caps
No.1 overall
Medium-small caps
  • No.2 overall
  • No.1 ranked: Food, Chemical, Nonferrous metals, Metals, Electronics, Transportation equipment, Precision instruments, Other products, Land transportation, Air transportation, Information & Telecoms, Wholesale business, Retailing, Bank, Insurance, Other financials, Services
  • No.2 ranked: Construction, Paper & Pulp, Pharms, Glass, Warehouse & Transportation, Real Estate, REIT
  • No.3 ranked: Rubber product, Steel
 April 2019
Nikkei Nikkei analyst survey
31 Industry sectors and market categories
  • No.1 ranked: Industrial electronics, Precision instruments/semiconductor equipment, Machinery, Construction, Business solution, Leisure/Amusement
  • No.2 ranked: Electronic parts, Autos, Steel/nonferrous metals, Banks, Trading companies, Media, REIT
  • No.3 ranked: Consumer Electronics, Glass/Paper & Pulp, Telecommunications
 March 2019
Fixed Income / FX Analyst and Economist
No.3 overall
No.2 ranked: Credit analysts
No.3 ranked: FX analysts
 March 2019
Greenwich Associates Greenwich Associates' survey
  • #1 in Most Helpful Analysts in G3 Asian Bonds
  • #1 in Most Helpful Analysts in Domestic Currencies
 December 2018
The TRADE Leaders in Trading Awards
  • Algorithmic Trading: Best access to market -Instinet
  • EMS Best Product Consistency -Instinet
  • EMS Overall Outperformer -Instinet
 November 2018
Institutional Investor All-Asia Trading Team Survey
  • #2 in Electric Trading for Japan
  • #3 in Local Market Color for Japan
 September 2018
All-America Fixed Income Research Survey
  • #2 Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Strategy - Non-Agency
 July 2018
Asia's Top Corporate Access Providers ranking
  • No.1 ranked: Corporate Access team
 April 2018
All-Japan Research Team Ranking
  • No.1 overall (team-based)
  • No.1 ranked: Autos, Banks, Beverages, Food & Tobacco, Construction, Electronics/Industrial, Electronics/SPE, Internet, Machinery, Software, Telecoms, FI Strategy
  • No.2 ranked: Broadcasting, Housing & Real Estate, Metals, Plant Engineering & Shipbuilding, REITs, Technical Materials, Trading Companies, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Economics, Equity Strategy, Quantitative Research
  • No.3 ranked: Chemicals, Electronics/Components, Energy & Utilities, Health Care & Pharms, Insurance & Nonbank Financials, Transportation
  • Runners up: Auto Parts, Electronics/Consumer, OTC & Small Companies, Retailing
 April 2018
All-Japan Sales Team Ranking
  • No.1 overall
 April 2018
All India Research Team Survey
  • #1 in Fixed Income-Economics (Sonal Varma)
  • #1 in India Oil & Gas (Anil Sharma)
  • #2 in Autos & Auto Parts (Kapil Singh)
 December 2017
Japan's Top Corporate Access Provider Ranking
  • No.1 overall
 May 2017
GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2018
  • Volatility Derivatives House of the Year
 September 2018
GlobalCapital Bond Awards 2018
  • #1 in Most Impressive FIG Bond House in Yen
  • #1 in Most Impressive Uridashi Dealer for SSAs
  • #2 in Most Impressive FIG House in Sterling
  • #2 in Most Impressive Structured MTN Dealer
  • #2 in Most Impressive House in Emerging Market Currencies
  • #2 in Best for Investor Education and Diversification in FIG Bond Deals
  • #3 in Coming Force in SSA Bonds
 May 2018
The Asset 2018 Asian G3 Bonds
  • Top Analysts: #2 Annisa Lee, #5 Tony Chen, #8 Nicholas Yap
  • Top Trader: #4 Wentao Yan
  • Most Improved Individual in the Economists & Strategists category: Rob Subbaraman
 September 2018
2018 Asian Local Currency Bond Benchmark Review
  • #1 in Best India Research category (Sonal Varma)
  • #2 in Best Hong Kong Research category (Annisa Lee)
 April 2018
Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards Japan 2018
Broker Awards
No.1 Overall
Earnings Estimator
No.1 Overall: Technology Hardware (Tetsuya Wadaki)
[Sector]
No.1: Machinery (Katsushi Saito), Technology Hardware (Tetsuya Wadaki)
No.2: Software & IT Services (Chikai Tanaka) Transportation (Masaharu Hirokane)
No.3: Automobiles (Masataka Kunugimoto), Energy & Utilities (Shigeki Matsumoto), Food & Beverages (Takaomi Kono), Metals & Forest Products (Takaomi Kono), Trading Companies & Distributors (Yasuhiro Narita)
Stock Pickers
No.3 Overall: Retail (Hidehiko Aoki)
[Sector]
No.1: Retail (Hidehiko Aoki), Technology Hardware (Yu Okazaki)
No.2: Metals & Forest Products (Takaomi Kono)
No.3: Banks (Ken Takamiya), Energy & Utilities (Shigeki Matsumoto), Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure (Ryozo Minagawa), Machinery (Masayasu Noguchi), Retail (Ryozo Minagawa)
 August 2018
Asiamoney Asiamoney's Brokers Poll 2017
  • Best Local Brokerage: Japan
 December 2017
Risk Magazine Risk Awards
  • Risk solutions house of the year
 November 2017
Connecting Markets East & West