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Pride in disability isn't new - there have been Disability Pride parades at least since the early 1990s - but the language preference and the culture and identity shift it reflects are new. OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES - EVEN BEFORE the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and more emphatically ever since - the idea of disability shifted from a medical signifier to an emblem of cultural identity. [Extracted from the article]

A kind of alchemy has been stimulating Brazil's capital markets over the past year. Once a small, albeit significant, part of the broad, diverse investor universe known as GEMs, for [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin Market participants cheer the European Securities and Markets Authorityâs initiatives to increase transparency, but troubling questions remain. In mid-December the European Securities and Markets Authority issued the [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin Man Chuen (Benjamin) Lo Nomura First-place appearances: 0Total appearances: 4Analyst debut: 2010 Man Chuen (Benjamin) Lo seizes the No. 3 spot for a third year running. A [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin Bing Gao China International Capital Corp. First-place appearances: 0Total appearances: 2Analyst debut: 2012 Up one position to No. 3, Bing Gao of China International Capital Corp. earns [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin J. Radhakrishnan IIFL First-place appearances: 0 Total appearances: 1 Analyst debut: 2013 Newcomer J. Radhakrishnan seizes second place. 'An experienced analyst with a sharp eye for the [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin Abhijit Akella IIFL First-place appearances: 0Total appearances: 2Analyst debut: 2012 IIFL's Abhijit Akella repeats in second place, in part because he provides 'comprehensive evaluations of all relevant [...]

Venkatesh Balasubramaniam Citi First-place appearances: 0Total appearances: 3Analyst debut: 2011 After a year at runner-up, Venkatesh Balasubramaniam of Citi reclaims third place; he also is No. 3 in Capital Goods. [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin Gregory Badishkanian Citi First-place appearances: 3Total appearances: 4Analyst debut: 2010 It's three wins in a row for Citi's Gregory Badishkanian. 'He leads the competition by a mile, [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin David Raso ISI Group First-place appearances: 13Total appearances: 13Analyst debut: 2001 Praise for ISI Group's David Raso seems to know no end. 'The way he questions managements [...]

Robin Farley UBS First-place appearances: 9Total appearances: 13Team debut: 2001 Robin Farley of UBS captures second place for a third year running. Monitoring '15 to 20 companies,' she says, Farley [...]

Marcos Assumpção & team Itaú BBA First-place appearances: 2 Total appearances: 4 Team debut: 2010 Itaú BBA slips from first place to second. The quartet is conducted by Marcos Assumpção, [...]

Leading the lineup for a fourth year running is VTB Capital's Elena Sakhnova, 36. The analyst, who covers 30 stocks, upgraded Globaltrans Investment from hold to buy in December 2011, [...]

Young Chang & team UBS UBS's Young Chang and team repeat in third place. Seven analysts in Seoul work closely with five others in Hong Kong and Tokyo to track [...]

Peter Kurz & team Citi Although Citi falls from first place to second, Peter Kurz's Taipei-based team of nine continues to win praise from buy-side loyalists. 'We really rely on [...]

Hoe Kiat (Patrick) Yau & team Citi The Citi quintet directed by Singapore-based Hoe Kiat (Patrick) Yau, which spent the past three years in the runner-up position, rises to third [...]

Jody Santiago & team UBS UBS, which slipped to No. 3 last year, captures second place for the fourth time in five years. Manila-based Jody Santiago pilots the five-member group, [...]

Matthew Nacard & team Macquarie Capital Securities Sydney-based Matthew Nacard and his 52-member Macquarie Capital Securities team repeat in third place. Tracking roughly 300 companies, the analysts 'leave no stone [...]

Jun Ma, Jiangqiao (Michael) Tong & team Deutsche Bank In second place for a second year running is Deutsche Bank's crew of 20 co-captained by Jun Ma and Jiangqiao (Michael) [...]

Anil Daswani& team Citi 'They are responsive and clear thinking.' Rising one rung to claim the top spot for the first time since 2009 is Citi's 17-member squad under Anil [...]

Katsuya Takeuchi COMPANY UBS Dubbed 'a rising star' by one asset manager in Tokyo, UBS's Katsuya Takeuchi moves up one notch to rejoin the third team. He recommends Sumitomo Corp., [...]

Koichi Niwa SMBC Nikko Securities Making the team for the first time since 2009 is SMBC Nikko Securities' Koichi Niwa, who claims the No. 3 spot. The analyst covers 14 [...]

Masao Muraki, who leads the lineup for a third year running, 'tracks trends of global financial institutions and financial regulations, and so is able to present his views in a [...]

Toshiya Mizutani of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. extends his winning streak to a seventh straight year. The analyst, who covers 16 stocks, is known for providing 'well-balanced investment [...]

Several top investment analysts reveal the factors behind their success. One of these is effectively communicating with clients so that they understand the reasons behind the analyst's recommendations. A second key to success is maintaining good relationships with companies that analysts have to make negative reports about. One way of doing this is to inform the company of the negative report before it is released to the public. A third success factor is making time for investment banking activities since this is becoming an important part of an analyst's job. Other valuable techniques are teaming up with foreign analysts to be able to provide global coverage, delegating work to junior analysts, and finding time for research, How do certain analysts stay on top year after year? Here are a few clues. Successful analysts rarely succeed at taking time off. Stephen McClellan, Merrill Lynch's computer services tracker [...]

Analysts are as much in demand as Latin American stocks. Here are the ones voted best at covering the region. With Latin American equity markets surging, sell-side firms are scrambling [...]

Byline: Ben Mattlin (Mattlin lives in Los Angeles.) For as long as I can remember, people have told me my life would make a good book. They say this because [...]

Every trader wants best execution. But for each hedge fund, it can often mean something radically different. 'For hedge funds, minimal transaction cost doesn't necessarily mean optimal transaction cost,' according [...]

In the last week of October, as the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to introduce new rules for hedge funds in the U.S., trading veteran Michel Debiche in Princeton, New [...]

In the late 1990s, Wall Street was abuzz about women's healthcare. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies big and small were touting new diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for cervical and breast cancers, [...]

In the first five months of 2003, home-construction stocks advanced by more than 30%, driven largely by the lowest mortgage interest rates in recorded history. 'Going forward, investors have to [...]

In the past 10 years it has tripled in value, outstripping the Standard & Poor's 500 index by more than 100 percentage points. It's a broad-based portfolio, spanning the gamut [...]