This category awards financial institutions with an outstanding commitment to create new and valuable empirical evidence to facilitate the decision making process towards the investor community.

In selecting those institutions demonstrating excellence in this category, you should consider the following key areas:

Deep understanding of the markets
This Award should go to an Institution who understands the research requirements of the market, identifies key areas for research and delivers valuable insights to investors.

Credibility
This Award should go to an Institution with impeccable credibility. Consistent and well founded research is the most vital support to decision making for investors, those nominated to this category should deliver credible research to the investor community.

Independence and objectivity
This Award should go to an Institution which conducts systematic, objective and independent research. Success in this category will go to a firm which contributes with impartiality to the understanding of the company under study.

Empirical evidence
This Award should go to an Institution will have demonstrated how company research creates new and valuable empirical evidence to decision makers. Success in this category will go to a firm which consistently contributes to the development of market knowledge though its research.