equity research

Portfolios at HSBC are shuffled and the bank also hires three new staff, as it seeks to strengthen its equity research product.

Three new hires join Jefferies' equity research group in Tokyo as part of its continued build-up in Asia.

Paul Schulte, a former managing director at Nomura, has been hired as global head of financial strategy and Asian bank research at CCB International Securities, the brokerage arm of CCB International.

The UK bank announces the hire of six senior Hong Kong-based analysts as it builds its new equities research division under Stephen O'Sullivan.

Barclays Capital continues to build its equities team in Asia by hiring a head of equity-research in non-Japan Asia.

Guy Ashton changes focus from Europe and the Middle East to Asia-Pacific û a region which Deutsche Bank expects will be the world's fastest growing in the medium-term.

The firm offers onshore equity research with the hire of two new analysts to start the team.

Industry issues guidelines to stop companies discriminating against analysts that publish unfavourable research reports.