Investment Management Firms Rankings 2009: Vault Investment Management 25
The Vault Guide to the Top 25 Investment Management Employers rates 59 firms with significant operations in asset management, wealth management or brokerage services. We chose the 59 firms based on previous Vault surveys that gauged opinions of industry insiders, as well as on various factual data, including size in terms of revenue or assets.
The firms we identified were all asked to distribute our online survey to relevant employees. The survey consisted of questions about life at the firm (or former firm) and a prestige rating. Participants were asked to rate companies with which they were familiar on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most prestigious. They were not allowed to rate their own employer.
Eight companies agreed to participate: Credit Suisse, Janus Capital, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, PIMCO, UBS and Wachovia/Evergreen Investments. All surveys were completely anonymous. For those companies that did not participate, Vault sought contacts at the firm through other proprietary sources. Those professionals took the same survey as the employees at firms that participated. All told, 339 investment management professionals filled out Vault's 2008 Investment Management Survey from December 2007 through March 2008. Vault averaged the prestige scores for each firm and ranked them in order, with the highest score belonging to our No. 1 firm, Goldman Sachs. New York-based Goldman topped the rankings for the second year in a row, receiving a score of 8.354, nearly one full point higher than New York-based BlackRock (7.489), which leaped seven places from its ranking last year to take the No. 2 spot. BlackRock barely edged out the No. 3 firm, The Blackstone Group (7.485), which also rose seven places this year. Rounding out the top five were San Francisco-based Barclays Global Investors (6.848), which moved up four places to take the No. 4 spot, and Lehman Brothers (6.804), which fell three spots to No. 5.
Investment Management Firms Rankings 2009: Vault Investment Management 25
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