• UBS Investment Bank leads trade idea performance in Europe for fifth year running
• Carnegie led the rankings for mid-size and boutique brokerages out of 30 eligible firms across Europe.
• Brian Robinson from Goldman Sachs was awarded top equity salesperson out of 371 eligible European authors.

London, 20 October 2017: TIM, operator of the leading global trade ideas network and alpha capture platform, has announced the 2017 Europe results of its annual Top Performer Awards, with UBS leading the bulge-bracket firms for the fifth year running. A full list of awards winners can be found here.

TIM Group’s Top Performer Awards, now in their sixth year, are a unique global ranking of equity salespeople and their firms. They recognise and quantify top performing firms and individuals – those whose trade ideas have consistently outperformed relevant indexes over the last year. The rankings quantify the value of over 1.4 million long and short equity trading ideas sent to clients through the TIM platform.

As well as the bulge bracket, the awards also recognise the leading mid-tier and boutique firms, with Carnegie coming out on top, followed by DnB Markets and Swedbank First Securities in second and third place respectively. Individual sell-side contributors are also recognised in the awards.

“Our Top Performer Awards are an opportunity to celebrate excellence within the TIM network.  We recognise our sell-side contributors’ best performance, whilst reminding the industry of the inherent value of data that comes from our network of trade ideas,” comments Rich Koppel, CEO, TIM. “Congratulations to all of our 2017 awards winners across Europe.”

The Top Performer results are based on TIM Group’s analysis of more than 1.4 million equity recommendations that were distributed, globally, through its trade ideas platform to hedge funds and traditional investment management firms in 2016. Rankings are based on a number of factors, with an emphasis on consistency – looking at overall performance against total number of ideas – rather than one or two exceptional ideas.

A full list of winners, performance figures, and methodology, including the North America, Asia (ex Japan), Japan and Australia and New Zealand regional Top Performer Awards results, can be found on TIM Group’s website: http://www.timgroup.com/awards/

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