The crisis in subprime mortgages, further turmoil throughout the credit markets and investors’ clamor for advice and information have created a rare and daunting set of challenges for fixed-income analysts. How did these pressures, which were mounting at the time of the polling for the Institutional Investor’s16th annual All-America Fixed-Income Research Team, affect the standings of the top analysts in the field? Here are the complete, final results.

    See the list of firms that have established their superiority in the eyes of their clients on the Overall Winners Table , which is accompanied by a weighted ranking that assigns scores based on the team position achieved by individual analysts or firms. Go to the Weighted Leaders Table to see how the results shift when points are assigned based on team position .For the top individuals and teams in fixed-income research, go to Top Analysts. Within each of 59 industry sectors, winning analysts and firms are listed as first team, second team, third team and runner-up. (Analysts or firms were designated runners-up when their scores fell within 35 percent of the third-teamer’s score).