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Investment Banking League Tables: Neutral Arbiter of Bank Rankings or Marketing Manipulation?

Brian DeChesare

Plenty of mainstream sites and services like the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and Merger Market publish these league tables in different formats each year. League tables are primarily marketing tools for banks. Here are a few examples, which took approximately 1.6 50 transactions), or fees (e.g., $200

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Love-Hate Relationship with Markets! I will start this post with a couple of confessions.

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