On June 9, 2018, Sberbank Investment Research, the research department of Sberbank’s corporate and investment banking business, has taken the first place in five of the nine categories of the Extel Survey 2018 and was recognized as having some of the best analysts in Russia and the C.I.S.

Sberbank CIB’s team also took the first place in the equity sales category and Olga Klimova, head of equity and managing director, was recognized as the best in her field.

Sberbank CIB’s annual conference Russia: The Inside Track was recognized as the top pan-European brokerage event.

Sberbank Investment Research analysts secured the first place in five of the nine categories available: telecommunications and media, small and mid-cap research, metals and mining, equity strategy, banks and other financials.

Sberbank Investment Research analysts also made the top three in the following categories: consumer retail, oil and gas, fixed income research, and economics and macro indicators.

Commenting on the results of the survey, Sberbank CIB’s vice president and the group’s head of the global markets department Andrey Shemetov said, “We are proud that Sberbank Investment Research has been recognized by the international investment community at the highest level. Our leading positions in multiple categories of this year’s WeConvene Extel Survey show that Sberbank Investment Research is one of the top investment research teams in Russia and the C.I.S. It is a testament to our commitment to providing leading-class, comprehensive research products that feature accurate and detailed information for making investment decisions.”

Sberbank Investment Research, one of the oldest research teams on the market, provides equity and fixed income investment support as part of Sberbank CIB’s global markets business. Sberbank Investment Research delivers comprehensive analysis of the market and publishes daily reports covering the economy, as well as equity and fixed income markets of the C.I.S. Sberbank Investment Research also calculates the Ivanov index of consumer confidence. In 2017, Sberbank Investment Research released more than 400 analytical pieces, aside from its daily reports.

The WeConvene Extel Survey was first introduced in 1974 by Thomson Reuters. Since July 2014, the survey has been compiled by WeConvene, a global platform that provides corporate services to buy-side and sell-side participants of the financial market. The Extel Survey is the leading independent ranking of investment market participants.