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Top 25 Institutional research firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,797 company matches for institutional research firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 67,638 professional contacts across them, including 25,284 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers company matches for institutional research firms worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for institutional research firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest institutional research firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,150 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Morningstar, Inc.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 2 | 7,504 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 3 | 5,009 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 4 | 2,422 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 5 | 2,395 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 6 | 1,619 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive data, research and insights spanning the global capital markets.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 7 | 1,279 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “In an increasingly complex financial landscape, Prometeia transforms complexity into clarity.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 8 | 1,260 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “GD Research Center Pvt.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 9 | 848 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Founded in 2005, Seeking Alpha is an industry-leading financial research platform powered by one of the world’s largest investing communities.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 10 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “We are a global research analytics and advisory firm with over 20 years of experience in helping organizations take strategic business and investment decisions fearlessly and with…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 11 | 630 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “CapitalVia Global Research Limited has been providing pure play financial market research and consulting services for over 14 years, offering unbiased technical analysis and…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 12 | 611 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “At Oxford Economics, we equip our clients with the data and understanding they need to navigate an uncertain, fast-changing and challenging global economic and business…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 13 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 14 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 15 | 511 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “IndustryARC™ was started by a group of young, passionate professionals along with extensively experienced industry veterans across various business segments and focused expertise…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 16 | 508 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Driven by innovation and value addition approach, Allied Market Research is instrumental in market research and business consulting across various industry verticals since its…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 17 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bates White Economic Consulting offers services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 18 | 409 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ISI enjoys a 30 year history assembling the most complete, authoritative information set on emerging markets.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 19 | 407 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Over more than 50 years, IBISWorld has evolved to be the global leader in industry research.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 20 | 405 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Hanover is a leading provider of research and analytics for thousands of organizations worldwide.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 21 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Uzabase is the Asian market intelligence provider trusted by more than organizations worldwide to confidently navigate Asian markets and global emerging industries.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 22 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bernstein is widely recognized as a premier global equity research and brokerage firm, with a trading platform that spans the US, Europe, and Asia.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 23 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “We work with our clients to help them navigate the increasingly complex global environment, to analyse political and economic developments, forecast economic trends, and…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 24 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “BDA is an investment advisory firm founded in 1994, initially to serve Morgan Stanley and its clients then our own.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 25 | 325 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Transparency Market Research Pvt.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 20, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
RevenueBase SmartSearch
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- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for institutional research firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “institutional research firms” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
- RevenueBase SmartSearch
- Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
- Public preview
- The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
- Match quality
- RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 25,284 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Record context
- Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.
Institutional research firms by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Institutional research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Institutional research firms based in the United States657
- Institutional research firms based in India355
- Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom188
- Institutional research firms based in Brazil66
- Institutional research firms based in Canada62
- Institutional research firms based in Australia53
- Institutional research firms based in Germany46
- Institutional research firms based in France39
- Institutional research firms based in Italy36
- Institutional research firms based in Switzerland35
- Institutional research firms based in the Netherlands27
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?
RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “institutional research firms”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.
How many institutional research firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,797 company matches for institutional research firms worldwide as of September 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.
What is the largest company on this list?
Morningstar tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.
Which country has the most institutional research firms?
The United States leads with 657 companies, followed by India (355) and the United Kingdom (188). Every institutional research firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most institutional research firms?
London leads with 124 company records, followed by New York (121) and Pune (56).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 25,284 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 2,797 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide
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Describe the businesses you want in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch matches company descriptions by meaning.
RevenueBase records 2,797 matching company records for institutional research firms worldwide, with 67,638 tracked contacts and 25,284 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
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Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HQ: Chicago, IL, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Chicago, IL, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 11,150 contacts → |
“Morningstar, Inc.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 | HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | New York, NY, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 7,504 contacts → |
“MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Acuity Knowledge Partnersacuitykp.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | London, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 5,009 contacts → |
“Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Third Bridge Groupthirdbridge.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | London, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,422 contacts → |
“Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | CLSAclsa.com HQ: Hong Kong, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hong Kong, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,395 contacts → |
“CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | HQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,619 contacts → |
“PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive data, research and insights spanning the global capital markets.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | HQ: Bologna, ItalyReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Bologna, Italy | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,279 contacts → |
“In an increasingly complex financial landscape, Prometeia transforms complexity into clarity.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | HQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hyderabad, India | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,260 contacts → |
“GD Research Center Pvt.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | HQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | NY, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 848 contacts → |
“Founded in 2005, Seeking Alpha is an industry-leading financial research platform powered by one of the world’s largest investing communities.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Mumbai, India | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 734 contacts → |
“We are a global research analytics and advisory firm with over 20 years of experience in helping organizations take strategic business and investment decisions fearlessly and with…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Capitalviacapitalvia.com HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: Not recorded | Mumbai, India | Not recorded | Exact match | 630 contacts → |
“CapitalVia Global Research Limited has been providing pure play financial market research and consulting services for over 14 years, offering unbiased technical analysis and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | HQ: Oxford, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 611 contacts → |
“At Oxford Economics, we equip our clients with the data and understanding they need to navigate an uncertain, fast-changing and challenging global economic and business…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | HQ: Boston, MA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Boston, MA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 553 contacts → |
“The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 539 contacts → |
“Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | HQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: 201-500 | Hyderabad, India | 201-500 | Exact match | 511 contacts → |
“IndustryARC™ was started by a group of young, passionate professionals along with extensively experienced industry veterans across various business segments and focused expertise…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | HQ: Wilmington, DE, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Wilmington, DE, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 508 contacts → |
“Driven by innovation and value addition approach, Allied Market Research is instrumental in market research and business consulting across various industry verticals since its…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | HQ: Washington, DC, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Washington, DC, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 452 contacts → |
“Bates White Economic Consulting offers services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | London, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 409 contacts → |
“ISI enjoys a 30 year history assembling the most complete, authoritative information set on emerging markets.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | HQ: Melbourne, GermanyReported employees: 201-500 | Melbourne, Germany | 201-500 | Exact match | 407 contacts → |
“Over more than 50 years, IBISWorld has evolved to be the global leader in industry research.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | HQ: Arlington, VA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Arlington, VA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 405 contacts → |
“Hanover is a leading provider of research and analytics for thousands of organizations worldwide.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | HQ: Chiyoda-ku, JapanReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Chiyoda-ku, Japan | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 392 contacts → |
“Uzabase is the Asian market intelligence provider trusted by more than organizations worldwide to confidently navigate Asian markets and global emerging industries.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | Bernsteinbernsteinsg.com HQ: United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 378 contacts → |
“Bernstein is widely recognized as a premier global equity research and brokerage firm, with a trading platform that spans the US, Europe, and Asia.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Economist Intelligence EIUeiu.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 348 contacts → |
“We work with our clients to help them navigate the increasingly complex global environment, to analyse political and economic developments, forecast economic trends, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | HQ: 新加坡, SingaporeReported employees: 51-200 | 新加坡, Singapore | 51-200 | Exact match | 341 contacts → |
“BDA is an investment advisory firm founded in 1994, initially to serve Morgan Stanley and its clients then our own.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | HQ: Wilmington, DE, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Wilmington, DE, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 325 contacts → |
“Transparency Market Research Pvt.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Institutional research firms: dataset insights
September 20, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
2,792 records in the displayed employee bands.
5 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 2,797 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Institutional research firms by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Institutional research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Institutional research firms based in the United States657
- Institutional research firms based in India355
- Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom188
- Institutional research firms based in Brazil66
- Institutional research firms based in Canada62
- Institutional research firms based in Australia53
- Institutional research firms based in Germany46
- Institutional research firms based in France39
- Institutional research firms based in Italy36
- Institutional research firms based in Switzerland35
- Institutional research firms based in the Netherlands27
Cities
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for institutional research firms?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many institutional research firms did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 2,797 matching company records, 67,638 tracked contacts and 25,284 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
How can I get contact information?
Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: September 20, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide. Snapshot: September 20, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/institutional-research-firms.
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Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide
RevenueBase records 2,797 matching company records for institutional research firms worldwide, with 67,638 tracked contacts and 25,284 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HQ: Chicago, IL, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Chicago, IL, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 11,150 contacts → |
“Morningstar, Inc.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 | HQ: New York, NY, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | New York, NY, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 7,504 contacts → |
“MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Acuity Knowledge Partnersacuitykp.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | London, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 5,009 contacts → |
“Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Third Bridge Groupthirdbridge.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | London, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,422 contacts → |
“Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | CLSAclsa.com HQ: Hong Kong, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hong Kong, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,395 contacts → |
“CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | HQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,619 contacts → |
“PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive data, research and insights spanning the global capital markets.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | HQ: Bologna, ItalyReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Bologna, Italy | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,279 contacts → |
“In an increasingly complex financial landscape, Prometeia transforms complexity into clarity.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | HQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hyderabad, India | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,260 contacts → |
“GD Research Center Pvt.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | HQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | NY, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 848 contacts → |
“Founded in 2005, Seeking Alpha is an industry-leading financial research platform powered by one of the world’s largest investing communities.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Mumbai, India | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 734 contacts → |
“We are a global research analytics and advisory firm with over 20 years of experience in helping organizations take strategic business and investment decisions fearlessly and with…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Capitalviacapitalvia.com HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: Not recorded | Mumbai, India | Not recorded | Exact match | 630 contacts → |
“CapitalVia Global Research Limited has been providing pure play financial market research and consulting services for over 14 years, offering unbiased technical analysis and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | HQ: Oxford, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 611 contacts → |
“At Oxford Economics, we equip our clients with the data and understanding they need to navigate an uncertain, fast-changing and challenging global economic and business…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | HQ: Boston, MA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Boston, MA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 553 contacts → |
“The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | HQ: San Francisco, CA, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | San Francisco, CA, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 539 contacts → |
“Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | HQ: Hyderabad, IndiaReported employees: 201-500 | Hyderabad, India | 201-500 | Exact match | 511 contacts → |
“IndustryARC™ was started by a group of young, passionate professionals along with extensively experienced industry veterans across various business segments and focused expertise…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | HQ: Wilmington, DE, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Wilmington, DE, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 508 contacts → |
“Driven by innovation and value addition approach, Allied Market Research is instrumental in market research and business consulting across various industry verticals since its…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | HQ: Washington, DC, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Washington, DC, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 452 contacts → |
“Bates White Economic Consulting offers services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 501-1,000 | London, United Kingdom | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 409 contacts → |
“ISI enjoys a 30 year history assembling the most complete, authoritative information set on emerging markets.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | HQ: Melbourne, GermanyReported employees: 201-500 | Melbourne, Germany | 201-500 | Exact match | 407 contacts → |
“Over more than 50 years, IBISWorld has evolved to be the global leader in industry research.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | HQ: Arlington, VA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Arlington, VA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 405 contacts → |
“Hanover is a leading provider of research and analytics for thousands of organizations worldwide.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | HQ: Chiyoda-ku, JapanReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Chiyoda-ku, Japan | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 392 contacts → |
“Uzabase is the Asian market intelligence provider trusted by more than organizations worldwide to confidently navigate Asian markets and global emerging industries.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | Bernsteinbernsteinsg.com HQ: United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 378 contacts → |
“Bernstein is widely recognized as a premier global equity research and brokerage firm, with a trading platform that spans the US, Europe, and Asia.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Economist Intelligence EIUeiu.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 348 contacts → |
“We work with our clients to help them navigate the increasingly complex global environment, to analyse political and economic developments, forecast economic trends, and…” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | HQ: 新加坡, SingaporeReported employees: 51-200 | 新加坡, Singapore | 51-200 | Exact match | 341 contacts → |
“BDA is an investment advisory firm founded in 1994, initially to serve Morgan Stanley and its clients then our own.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | HQ: Wilmington, DE, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Wilmington, DE, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 325 contacts → |
“Transparency Market Research Pvt.” Recorded description excerpt · September 20, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Institutional research firms: dataset insights
September 20, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
2,792 records in the displayed employee bands.
5 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 2,797 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: September 20, 2026.
Publisher-reported method study
The published RevenueBase SmartSearch benchmark
86% good or better at Exact
RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. It reports 86% of Exact matches judged good or better, and 77% for a 240-pair sample of one- or two-word categories. This evaluates the method across study queries rather than auditing this individual list.
Read the study and full methodology ↗RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Institutional research firms by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Institutional research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Institutional research firms based in the United States657
- Institutional research firms based in India355
- Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom188
- Institutional research firms based in Brazil66
- Institutional research firms based in Canada62
- Institutional research firms based in Australia53
- Institutional research firms based in Germany46
- Institutional research firms based in France39
- Institutional research firms based in Italy36
- Institutional research firms based in Switzerland35
- Institutional research firms based in the Netherlands27
Cities
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for institutional research firms?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many institutional research firms did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 2,797 matching company records, 67,638 tracked contacts and 25,284 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
How can I get contact information?
Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: September 20, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 institutional research firms worldwide. Snapshot: September 20, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/institutional-research-firms.
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