Thomson Reuters announced the results of the 35th Thomson Reuters Extel Survey Wednesday.

The 2008 Survey represents the weighted views of over 7,500 investment professionals from 63 countries, and garnered in excess of 200,000 votes - making it the most extensive assessment of its kind in the European investment community.

Headline results for the key 2008 categories (2007 in brackets where applicable) are:

Leading Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Equity and Equity-linked Research:
1. UBS (1)
2. Merrill Lynch (3)
3. Citi Investment Research (2)

Leading Pan-European Fund Management Firm:
1. JPMorgan Asset Management (3)
2. Fidelity International (1)
3. Capital International (2)

Leading Pan-European Hedge Fund:
1. GLG
2. Och-Ziff Capital Management
3. Amber Capital

Leading Pan-European Individual Equity Analyst:
1. Andrew Wood, Sanford C. Bernstein (1)
2. Stuart Graham, Merrill Lynch (23)
3. Antoine Colonna, Merrill Lynch (2)

Leading Pan-European Brokerage Firm for SRI & Sustainability Research:
1. Société Générale (2)
2. Citi Investment Research (1)
3. Cheuvreux (3)

Leading Pan-European Sector Team (across all sectors):
1. Société Générale Global Strategy (-)
2. Merrill Lynch, Banks Team (6)
3. HSBC, Telecommunications Services Team (9)

Leading Pan-European Equity Sector Team:
1. Merrill Lynch, Banks Team (1)
2. HSBC, Telecommunications Services Team (3)
3. Merrill Lynch, Luxury Goods Team (7)

Leading Pan-European Specialist Sales Person:
1. Gerard Zaffran, Merrill Lynch (2)
2. Michael Hall, UBS (-)
3. Erland Sternby, Dresdner Kleinwort (1)

Leading Pan-European Fund Management Individual:
1. Peter Lawrence, JPMorgan Asset Management (2)
2. Asif Jeevanjee, JPMorgan Asset Management (1)
3. Neil Woodford, Invesco Asset Management (5)

Leading Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Equity Trading & Execution:
1. UBS (1)
2. Citi Investment Research (5)
3. Merrill Lynch (3)

Leading Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Equity Sales:
1. UBS (1)
2. Cheuvreux (2)
3. Deutsche Bank (3)

Leading Brokerage Firms for Continental European Small Caps Research:
1. Cheuvreux (2)
2. UBS (1)
3. Citi Investment Research (3)

Leading Brokerage Firm for UK Small Caps:
1. ABN AMRO (2)
2. Numis Securities (1)
3. Cazenove (4)

Leading UK Small Caps Analyst:
Richard Rae, ABN AMRO

Leading Pan-European Economist/Strategist
Albert Edwards, Société Générale

Z/Yen Leading Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Operations:
1. UBS (2)
2. Merrill Lynch (-)
3. Morgan Stanley (-)

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