Awards & Recognition

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Publication Award Category Date
Institutional Investor All-Asia Research Team rankings
  • No.3 ranked: Technology/Hardware/Semiconductors (CW Chung & team)
  • Runners up: Technology/IT Services & Software (CW Chung, Ashwin Mehta & team)
May 2016
Asia's Top Corporate Access Providers ranking
  • No.1 ranked: Corporate Access team
 April 2018
All-India Research Team rankings
  • No.1 ranked: Autos & Auto Parts, Oil & Gas
  • No.2 ranked: Economics
  • Runners up: Financials/Banks
 November 2016
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
Japan's Top Corporate Access Provider Ranking
  • No.1 overall
 May 2017
All-China Research Team rankings
  • No.1 ranked: Technology (Leping Huang)
  • No.3 ranked: Internet (Jialong Shi & team)
  • Runners up: Conglomerates (Benjamin Lo & team), Gaming, Lodging & Leisure (Richard Huang & team), Insurance (Shengbo Tang & team), Real Estate (Jeffrey Gao & team), Telecommunications (Leping Huang & team)
 December 2016
All-Europe Research Team rankings
  • No.1 ranked team: Oil Services
  • Runners up: Beverages, Oil & Gas (Exploration & Production), Tobacco
 February 2016
GlobalCapital GlobalCapital Bond Awards 2017
  • No.1 Coming Force in FIG Bonds
  • No.1 Best FIG Bond House for Creative and Useful Funding Ideas
  • No.1 Most Impressive FIG Bond House in Yen
  • No.1 Most Impressive Uridashi dealer for SSAs
  • No.2 Most Impressive Bank at Sourcing New Borrowers for the MTN Market, Most Impressive FIG Bond Syndicate Banker
  • No.3 Most Impressive FIG Bond House in Sterling, Most impressive SSA Bond Origination Banker
 Jun 2017
Global Derivatives Awards 2017
  • Volatility Derivatives Bank of the Year
 September 2017
Euromoney FX Survey 2016
  • Most improved volume by institution type - Banks
 May 2016
Asiamoney Asiamoney's Brokers Poll 2017
  • Best Local Brokerage: Japan
 December 2017
Risk Magazine Risk Awards
  • Risk solutions house of the year
 November 2017
AsiaRisk Interdealer Rankings
  • No.3: Japan single name equity products
  • No.3: JPY interest rate products
  • No.4: Japan equity index products
  • No.5: JPY currency products
  • No.5: KRW currency products
 March 2017
FinanceAsia Fixed Income Research Poll
  • No.4 overall
  • No.2 ranked: Financial Sector, Investment-Grade Credit, High-Yield
  • No.4 ranked: Fixed Income and Credit Strategy
  • No.5 ranked: Sovereign Credit
 December 2016
The Asset The Asian Local Currency Bond Benchmark Review
  • Best Research Individuals in Asian Local Currency Bonds
 November 2017
2017 Asian G3 bonds Benchmark Review
  • 2 analysts ranked in the top 10
 September 2017
mtn-i 8th MTNi Asia-Pacific Showcase & Awards
  • Rising Star - Asia ex-Japan Dealer
 November 2017
Wall Street Letter 2016 Institutional Trading Awards
  • Best Cross-Asset Trading Solution -Instinet
 February 2016
Nikkei Nikkei analyst survey
  • No.1 All equity analysts
32 Industry sectors and market categories
No.1 ranked: Industrial electronics, Glass / Paper & Pulp, Steel/nonferrous metals, Precision instruments/semiconductor equipment, Machinery, Banks, Construction, Business solution, Leisure/Amusement
No.2 ranked: Electronic parts, Autos, Chemicals/Textiles, Trading companies, Telecommunications, Media, REIT, Quants analysis
No.3 ranked: Beverages/Food & Tobacco, Insurance & Diversified financials, Housing/real estate, Energy & Utilities
 March 2017
Fixed Income / FX Analyst and Economist
No.4 overall
No.1 ranked: Credit analysts
No.3 ranked: FX analysts
 March 2018
Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards Japan 2017
Broker Awards
No.1 Overall
Earnings Estimator
No.1 Overall Healthcare Technology Hardware (Motoya Kohtani)
[Sector]
No.1 Technology Hardware (Tetsuya Wadaki), Autos (Masataka Kunugimoto), Financial Services (Wataru Otsuka), Healthcare (Motoya Kohtani)
No.2 Industrials (Takaomi Kono), Machinery (Katsushi Saito), Metals (Yuji Matsumoto), Retail (Masafumi Shoda)
No.3 Trading Companies (Yasuhiro Narita)
Stock Pickers
[Sector]
No.3 Energy & Utilities (Shigeki Matsumoto), Real Estate (Daisuke Fukushima)
August 2017
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