The survey was carried out amongst fund and asset managers both in Ireland and internationally who do significant business with Irish stockbroking firms. Stockbroking firms and corporates are not included. It was carried out on a web based questionnaire, during the month of October 2006.
A total of 752 individuals were nominated for inclusion in the poll.
The sample frame was derived by amalgamating lists of fund managers from various sources, both contemporary and historic. Individual stockbroking firms are invited to nominate clients for the survey, and these are automatically accepted for inclusion if those clients are shared with other participating firms. In addition, participating firms are allowed to nominate a fixed number of unique voting participants. The fixed number of nominations allowed are in strict proportion to the number of firms nominating.
A total of 92 institutions voted, of which 51 were based outside of Ireland and 41 in Ireland. This included virtually the entire universe of Irish based institutional funds management, as measured by assets under management. The total number of individual fund manager votes counted was 100, of which 49 were in Ireland and 51 elsewhere.
Each institution had one vote in the equity or bond surveys. The vote was cast either representing the institution, or in some cases votes cast by individual fund managers were amalgamated for the institution on an unweighted basis.
In the early years of the Survey, the results were weighted, and this year, the equity survey votes were weighted in accordance with the below proportions:
Irish funds under management:
• EUR 25 billion plus: x6
• EUR 10-25 billion: x3
• EUR 10 billion and less: x1 |
