Making up lost ground

After knocking JP Morgan off first place in 2005, Deutsche Bank has enjoyed an uninterrupted run at the top of Risk's institutional end-user rankings. But the US bank, which dropped to fourth place last year, has regained much of the lost ground

For the third time in a row, Deutsche Bank has beaten its competitors in this year's institutional investor end-user rankings. It won 10.1% of the total vote cast by asset managers, hedge funds, pension firms and insurance companies globally. JP Morgan leapfrogged up to second place from last year's fourth-place spot, attracting 9.1% of the vote, while Goldman Sachs dropped from second to third place with 8.9%.

During the past year, the market has continued to exhibit historically low volatility