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East Coles is the leading Financial Research firm in the Equities, Investment Banking & Corporate Performance Markets in Australia. East Coles delivers data at the firm & individual level on their performance based on key issue ratings from major corporate & institutional respondents.

This includes ranking investment bankers across various categories within the M&A and ECM spaces, stockbrokers across various sectors such as Banks, Insurance, Media, Resources & Dealing, and also ranking corporates across areas such as Access to Management, Effectiveness of Board, Credibility and Effectiveness of CEO.

This unique research program focuses on both relationship and execution performance factors to produce "best of breed" benchmarking for players in the following areas:

• Equities Markets
• Investment Banking
• Corporate Performance

We welcome your interest in reviewing our research in more detail, and more information will be available from the various menu options on this website shortly. We look forward to supporting your client management and development strategy.

East Coles has three primary consultants who liaise with:

• Equities analysts on the buy and sell sides as respondents to our Corporate Performance Research
• Corporate executives as respondents to our Investment Banking Research
• Buy side equities analysts as respondents to our Equities Markets (Best Brokers) Research

The consultants are Nick Coles and Darren Barnes. Nick commenced working in the industry in 1993 and since then has developed strong relationships with many key industry figures on the buy and sell sides, and also senior executives with many major corporates. Darren began working in the industry in 2000 with ASX Perpetual and has been with East Coles since 2009. Darren is heavily involved in data maintenance and is also starting to develop strong industry relationships.

Respondents to East Coles Research Products are able to access their Executive Summaries via their relevant East Coles Client Page or by contacting East Coles at info@eastcoles.com.au.

East Coles is a socially aware company, actively supporting and promoting several charities both locally and abroad. A Director of East Coles is currently on the Board of Management at ICLA, a Sydney based charity providing support to the mentally ill.