When it comes to making investment decisions in the European, Middle Eastern, and African markets, investors want the real thing.
“In emerging markets, the human touch as ever is very important to have the pulse of the markets and, ultimately, make more informed decisions,” said Camille Asmar, head of equity sales for CEEMEA at HSBC. “You have to walk around the streets of Istanbul and Johannesburg or go to Riyadh and see exactly what is happening on the ground, how the population is behaving and thinking.”
For much of the past 18 months, as the world grappled with Covid-19, this due diligence by investors was rendered nearly impossible due to lockdowns causing business travel to cease. But fortunately, the top equity sales and corporate access providers in the regions were there to step up...
To select the members for Institutional Investor’s 2021 Emerging EMEA’s Top Corporate Access Providers, we invited participants in the 2021 Emerging EMEA Research Team and 2021 Emerging EMEA Executive Team Surveys to provide feedback on the firms that provided the best corporate access, overall and on a number of attributes.
From the 2021 Emerging EMEA Research Team survey, representing the buy-side point of view, we received responses from 151 investors at 132 firms. This group rated sell-side firms on a scale from 1 to 5 for the overall corporate access they provided across six attributes: conferences; field trips; logistics; roadshows; team quality; and virtual events.
Each vote was weighted by the voting firm’s Emerging EMEA commission range and the rating awarded to create the rankings. The Corporate Access Leaders table, based on the buy-side view, was calculated by adding together a firm’s overall corporate access scores within each attribute to produce a table of the top ten firms.
From the 2021 Emerging EMEA Executive Team survey, representing the corporate point of view, 73 corporates voted for sell-side firms and third-party providers. Voters were asked to name their top four firms in the following attributes: feedback, investor introductions, nondeal road shows, site visits, and virtual conferences.
Each attribute score was based on the place awarded to the firm. Scores were then aggregated to create the overall result. The Corporate Access Leaders table, based on the corporate view, tabulated each firm’s overall attribute scores to produce a table comprised of the top-ten firms.
The names of those surveyed are kept confidential to ensure their continuing cooperation. Voters are required to meet eligibility requirements, and all ballots are subject to review by II’s Research Operations Group.