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UBS Pactual Leads Institutional Investor's All-Brazil Research Team Ranking for Third Consecutive Year
Credit Suisse Remains in No. 2 Spot; Biggest Gainer Is Santander
| Source: Institutional Investor
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 3, 2008) - Brazil's astounding resilience in the first
ten months of the credit crisis and the consensus opinion that a rebound is
in the offing has investors clamoring for information and insight into
Latin America's biggest economy. The firm that does the best job of
providing that information, investors say, is UBS Pactual, which leads the
2008 All-Brazil Research Team, Institutional Investor's fifth annual
ranking of the nation's best analysts.
Full results are available on www.iimagazine.com
UBS Pactual places first for a third straight year, while Credit Suisse
holds steady in second. Santander is the biggest gainer, skyrocketing from
No. 8 to No. 3; the firm bumps Itaú Securities, which tied for third place
last year, down a notch to fourth. Last year's other third-place firm,
Merrill Lynch, ties for fifth with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, neither of
which ranked last year.
Results are based on responses from representatives of nearly 200
institutions, Brazilian and foreign, managing some $92.7 billion in
Brazilian equities and $114.5 billion in Brazilian debt.
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