Standard & Poor’s equity research team has come out on top in the Wall Street Journal’s 2009 “Best on the Street” annual survey of equity analysts (to be released on May 26). According to S&P’s latest edition of The Outlook, twenty of its equity analysts won in 23 industry categories, ...

The research team at BMO Capital Markets has been ranked No. 1 in Canada for 27 consecutive years by the Brendan Wood International (BWI) survey of institutional investors - yet a prominent U.S. firm that ranks brokerage research, Investars.com, puts BMO Capital 37th out of 39 firms over the past four years (for ...

Studies of brokerage firms' stock recommendations have focused on U.S. analysts; now there is one focusing on Canadian analysts. Published in the Spring, 2008 issue of Canadian Investment Review and authored by four professors from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, it covers the period from 1996 to 2004.