CIS Region Award Winners
The FocusEconomics 10th Anniversary Analyst Forecast Awards celebrate a decade of recognising the world’s most accurate economic forecasters. Below are the top three ranked forecasters for each indicator across the CIS region, covering 3 countries.
GDP
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
Oxford Economics
Tatiana Orlova
|
NAIE
Assan Kurmanbekov
|
Halyk Finance
Research Team
|
| Russia |
Raiffeisen Research
Research Team
|
DekaBank
Research Team
|
JPMorgan
Anatoliy Shal
|
| Ukraine |
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Research Team
|
Dragon Capital
Olena Bilan, Dmytro Taranenko
|
IER
Vitaliy Kravchuk, Oleksandra Betliy
|
3 countries
Inflation
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Andy Birch
|
JPMorgan
Khamza Sharifzoda, Nicolaie Alexandru
|
Barclays Capital
Barclays Research Team
|
| Russia |
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
Julius Baer
David Kohl
|
Berenberg
Research Team
|
| Ukraine |
Dragon Capital
Olena Bilan, Dmytro Taranenko
|
Blinov Forecasting
Oleksiy Blinov
|
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
3 countries
Current Account
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
ACRA
Zhannur Ashigali
|
Citigroup Global Mkts
Michel Nies, Martin Motl
|
UBS
Anna Zadornova
|
| Russia |
Barclays Capital
Barclays Research Team
|
EIU
Dan Ridler
|
Credit Agricole
Research Team
|
| Ukraine |
Ukraine Economic Outlook
Hryhorii Kukuruza
|
Fitch Ratings
Hannah Dimpker, Erich Arispe Morales
|
Blinov Forecasting
Oleksiy Blinov
|
3 countries
Fiscal Balance
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
Renaissance Capital
Renaissance Capital research team
|
Barclays Capital
Barclays Research Team
|
ING
Dmitry Dolgin
|
| Russia |
Capital Economics
Liam Peach
|
HSBC
Melis Metiner
|
Oxford Economics
Tatiana Orlova
|
| Ukraine |
EIU
Dan Ridler
|
ICU
ICU research team
|
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
3 countries
Exchange Rate
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
ING
Dmitry Dolgin
|
UBS
Anna Zadornova
|
Halyk Finance
Research Team
|
| Russia |
Julius Baer
David Alexander Meier
|
Credit Agricole
Research Team
|
Polish Chamber of Commerce
Piotr Soroczyński
|
| Ukraine |
Oxford Economics
Evghenia Sleptsova
|
ING
Research Team
|
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
3 countries
Interest Rate
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
ING
Dmitry Dolgin
|
Citigroup Global Mkts
Michel Nies, Martin Motl
|
BMI, a FitchSolutions Company
BMI Research Team
|
| Russia |
Astra AM
Dmitry Polevoy
|
BMI, a FitchSolutions Company
BMI Research Team
|
WIIW
Vasily Astrov
|
| Ukraine |
Blinov Forecasting
Oleksiy Blinov
|
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
EIU
Dan Ridler
|
3 countries
Unemployment
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
FrontierView
Nigar Jafarova
|
WIIW
Alexandra Bykova
|
ING
Dmitry Dolgin
|
| Russia |
WIIW
Vasily Astrov
|
EIU
Dan Ridler
|
Sberbank
Research Team
|
2 countries
Overall
| Country | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan |
ING
Dmitry Dolgin
|
Halyk Finance
Research Team
|
Citigroup Global Mkts
Michel Nies, Martin Motl
|
| Russia |
Raiffeisen Research
Research Team
|
OTP Bank
Mihály Kovács
|
Astra AM
Dmitry Polevoy
|
| Ukraine |
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lilit Gevorgyan
|
Dragon Capital
Olena Bilan, Dmytro Taranenko
|
Blinov Forecasting
Oleksiy Blinov
|
3 countries
Rankings determined by FocusEconomics’ proprietary accuracy methodology. Where two forecasters achieved equal accuracy, both are listed at the same rank.