Awards

Executive Access takes the number one spot once again in the Asiamoney headhunters poll, but in the individual stakes Eban's Stephen McAlinden steals this year's crown. Our respondents give their candid opinions on the best, and the worst, recruitment specialists in the business. By Matthew Montagu-Pollock.

Just as Singapore dominates our deals of the year, our issuer of the year category came down to a choice between two Singaporean and one Hong Kong company. SingTel takes the title from DBS and Hutch not for the range of its activity but for its transformation from a name suffering from its government connections, to the region's benchmark borrower. By Chris Wright.

Executive Access takes the number one spot once again in the Asiamoney headhunters poll, but in the individual stakes Eban's Stephen McAlinden steals this year's crown. Our respondents give their candid opinions on the best, and the worst, recruitment specialists in the business.

Investors have applauded the region's most stable companies in our 10th Best-Managed Companies poll. Where once telcos dominated, now we see raw materials, department stores and shopping mall operators at the top of the tree. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

When the subject of independent research comes up, there is a tendency to dismiss it as a conversational cul-de-sac: everyone knows there is a problem, so why discuss it further? But our brokers poll shows the true level of dissatisfaction in Asia is higher than we thought. Can anything be done to redress it? By Matthew Montagu-Pollock.

See article and results in attached PDF file.

Who?s best in yankees, samurais or kangaroos? Who should your first choice be for domestic and international equity offerings? And more importantly, how much do they cost? Your questions answered in our annual capital raising poll. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

Who's best in yankees, samurais or kangaroos? Who should your first choice be for domestic and international equity offerings? And more importantly, how much do they cost? Your questions answered in our annual capital raising poll. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

Citibank and Northern Trust emerged as leaders in this year's global custody poll. But customers still aren't getting everything they want from technology. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

Asiamoney's 11th annual cash management poll shows treasurers are more and more keen for improvements in technology – and they are very specific about what they want. Citibank and HSBC are among those who seem to be listening: both are rewarded with impressive votes. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

It wasn't easy to decide on our finance minister, central banker and restructuring agency of the year – and not because of an abundance of riches to choose from. Many economists declined to applaud anyone at all, and we have decided nobody merited the restructuring agency award this year. But there are positive stories – Hong Kong and Singapore enjoyed a year of prudent if unexceptional financial management, and China showed signs of real reform. In the end, China takes the plaudits. By Chris Wright.

Asiamoney's first law firm poll shows some interesting trends among Asia's in-house counsel – but we suspect there is one piece of data that Asia's corporates all want to know about: cost. And so they should, when a quarter of them spend over US$2 million a year on lawyer's fees. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.