July 15, 2015

Thomson Reuters Announces Winners of 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards – Singapore

Citi Research recognized as the top brokerage firm; Adrian Chua, of Citi Research and Gerald Wong of Credit Suisse take top individual awards

Singapore - Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards for Singapore. This is the seventh year that StarMine has presented its awards to the top stock analysts and brokerage firms in Singapore.

StarMine, a leading provider of objective ratings of sell-side securities analysts, measures the performance of analysts based on the industry excess returns of their buy/sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates. The 2015 awards recognise the sell-side analysts who have shown outstanding performance either as stock pickers and/or earnings estimators based on the period between 1 July, 2014 and 30 June, 2015.

Raj Shah, head of StarMine sell-side research at Thomson Reuters, added, “StarMine recognizes that stock picking and estimates accuracy are among the most coveted intelligence provided by sell-side analysts. The winning analysts were those that sifted deep into their industries and distilled more research insights to help their discerning institutional investors understand and interpret emerging signals. By providing truly differentiated research and extracting outsized returns from their coverage, these analysts stood out in the eyes of the investor community for their outstanding performance. Congratulations to all of this year’s ranked analysts.”

Analysts are awarded prizes in three main categories: stock recommendation performance relative to specific industry benchmarks (“Stock Pickers”), accuracy in forecasting earnings as compared with peers (“Earnings Estimators”) and brokerage firms whose analysts win the most awards (“Most Award-Winning Brokers”).

The winners of the Thomson Reuters StarMine Analysts Awards 2015 Singapore are:

Most Award-Winning Brokers

Rank

Broker

1

Citi Research

2

Macquarie Research

3

Credit Suisse

 

Overall Stock Picker

Rank

Analyst

Broker

1

Adrian Chua

Citi Research

 

Overall Earnings Estimator

Rank

Analyst

Broker

1

Gerald Wong

Credit Suisse

 

Industry Stock Pickers

Rank

Industry

Analyst

Broker

1

Financials

Anand Swaminathan

Credit Suisse

1

Industrials

Kevin Chong

Deutsche Bank Research

1

Real Estate

Tuck Yin Soong

Macquarie Research

1

Retail & Consumer Products

Sam Chan

Macquarie Research

 

Industry Earnings Estimators:

Rank

Industry

Analyst

Broker

1

Financials

Anand Swaminathan

Credit Suisse

1

Industrials

Gerald Wong

Credit Suisse

1

Real Estate

Adrian Chua

Citi Research

1

Retail & Consumer Products

Charles Spencer

Morgan Stanley

 

Please click here for the complete winners’ list, including industry sector winners, and the awards methodology.

 

About The Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards
Thomson Reuters StarMine is globally recognized as the gold standard in objective measurement of sell-side analyst performance. The awards recognize the world's top individual sell-side analysts and firms, and they can also be used by buy-side firms to identify the leading analysts at sell-side firms. The Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards measure the performance of sell-side analysts based on the returns of their buy and sell recommendations relative to industry benchmarks; and the accuracy of their earnings estimates in 16 regions across the globe. For the past 14 years, Thomson Reuters StarMine has partnered with some of the world’s most respected financial news outlets to publish the names of the winning analysts to give them the exposure and recognition they deserve. We also utilise internal press releases that are distributed to external business and financial desks. For more information on StarMine, click here.

About Thomson Reuters
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