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Top 25 Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom

Name: Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 188 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 188 institutional research firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,945 professional contacts across them, including 5,391 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers institutional research firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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10,945Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 188 institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to institutional research firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Acuity Knowledge Partners	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	5,001-10,000	5,009 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Third Bridge Group	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,422 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	Oxford Economics	Indirect evidence	Oxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	611 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	ISI Markets	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	409 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ISI enjoys a 30 year history assembling the most complete, authoritative information set on emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Economist Intelligence EIU	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	201-500	348 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We work with our clients to help them navigate the increasingly complex global environment, to analyse political and economic developments, forecast economic trends, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Capital Economics	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	147 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Capital Economics is a world-leading provider of independent economic insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	Verdantix	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	125 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Verdantix is an independent research and advisory firm that serves a global client base consisting of the world’s most innovative corporations, technology and services vendors…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	BVA Bdrc	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	105 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BVA BDRC is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	2cv	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	76 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Not just insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Cepa LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	64 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Cambridge Economic Policy Associates is an economic and financial policy advisory business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Murano	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	64 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Murano was established to provide a personal, bespoke service to identify specific investors for our client's funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	VAIR	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	64 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Financial Research copilot for institutional investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	London Economics LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “London Economics is one of Europe's leading specialist economics and policy consultancies and has its head office in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Fathom Financial Consulting	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Fathom is a world-leading consultancy providing independent, data-driven research and bespoke consultancy to clients in government, the private sector and non-profit organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Arete Research	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Arete Research is an Equity Research firm with offices in London, Boston and Hong Kong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Woozle Research	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	45 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Empowering the global investment community with the industry’s most accurate and reliable primary research data and insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Pantheon Macroeconomics	Indirect evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pantheon Macroeconomics aims to be the premier provider of unbiased, independent, timely economic intelligence to financial market professionals around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Absolute Strategy Research LTD	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	39 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Absolute Strategy Research is the #1 ranked independent macro-strategy research and advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Z YEN Group Limited	Indirect evidence	City Of London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Z/Yen helps organisations make better choices - our clients consider us a commercial think-tank that spots, solves and acts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Globaldata TS Lombard	Indirect evidence	City Of London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	34 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “TS Lombard is now part of GlobalData PLC for more information please read INFORM YOUR STRATEGY TS Lombard can help inform and shape your firm’s investment strategy through our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Juniper Research	Partial evidence	Basingstoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Juniper Research provides market sizing and forecasting, competitive analysis, strategic assessment, and business modelling to the world’s leading organisations and innovators…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Medley Advisors	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Medley provides research and consulting services on monetary, fiscal, and trade policy and political risk to clients ranging from short-term interest rate traders to trend-seeking…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	IRF	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Partial evidence “IRF, set up by Edward Blad in 2016, has built the largest group of high-quality and differentiated Independent Research and Alternative Data Providers globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Research In Finance	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Research In Finance is an award winning market research and business information provider that specialises in the financial services market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Briter	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Briter is a research and intelligence firm focused on emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: institutional research firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names institutional research firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of institutional research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name institutional research firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Institutional research firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

49.3%Verified-email coverage

58.2Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

64.9%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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501-1,000

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5,001-10,000

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 188 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among institutional research firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “institutional research firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names institutional research firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among institutional research firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
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 listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,391 across the full list. 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.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Institutional research firms by metro

Institutional research firms in London122

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names institutional research firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many institutional research firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 188 institutional research firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Acuity Knowledge Partners, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most institutional research firms?

London leads with 122 headquartered companies, followed by Newcastle Upon Tyne (4) and Oxford (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,391 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 188 companies.

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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About this data

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 Smart Search, 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.