Asia commodity research house of the year: ANZ

ANZ scores well with price forecasts, as it builds up commodity research effort

Mark Pervan, ANZ

ANZ's commodity research team has proven to be a valuable source of insight in the past 18 months. The five-member team – spread across Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne – travels extensively throughout Asia and is able to call on the bank's deep relationships with major commodity consumers and producers. Those relationships have helped the team to make some particularly notable predictions in commodity markets from agriculture to gold.

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