Equita SIM, an independent investment bank focused on research, equity brokerage and advisory activities, ranks first in the ranking as the best broker for research on Italian equities based on the ranking of the prestigious Institutional Investor magazine which published results today.
The team of 15 analysts, led by Matteo Ghilotti and Stefano Lustig, ranked first in the "Countries & Regions - Italy" category which awarded the best research teams by country.
The trading room salesmen, led by Fabio Deotto and Edward Duval, interact daily with more than 400 institutional investors worldwide, thus guaranteeing companies and research department analysts the best service for distributing knowledge and information on the market.
“The results of Institutional Investor – comments Francesco Perilli, Chief Executive Officer of Equita SIM – reward the commitment to meet the expectations of Institutional Investors and issuing companies. We are the only independent brokerage with capital fully controlled by management. Throughout the year, we maintained a cautious stance, favoring exposure to high quality stocks with solid fundamentals such as Buzzi Unicem, Ferrari, Prysmian and Salvatore Ferragamo. Going into 2017 we confirmed the cautious approach by selecting Ferrari, ENI, Luxottica and FinecoBank as the most overweight stocks in the portfolio”.
Institutional Investor, for over forty years an authoritative and accredited source of information on research and analysts covering stock markets in Europe, Asia, Japan, Latin America, Russia and the United States, annually carries out a survey on research, Sales, trading, investor relations and hedge funds in all markets worldwide. The survey, the results of which were published today, was carried out among more than 2300 fund managers from 881 institutions that have investments in European equities of around €6000 trillion.
