The head of European equity research at Deutsche Bank has been named as the best in the industry in an annual survey conducted by headhunter Sammons Associates, while the bank's head of emerging market research picked up the inaugural award for emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The Sammons Associates Annual Heads of Research Survey assesses the performance of banks' heads of research, looking at management skills, knowledge of the market and the quality of analysis, and had responses from more than 600 chief investment officers, portfolio managers and analysts.