NCB has been voted top Irish stockbroker in a Reuters survey of international fund managers. The fund managers were asked to rank the performance of those brokers operating in the field of European smaller companies.

NCB secured 42.5 per cent of the vote to take first place in this category, followed by Goodbody with 31.9 per cent. Davy Stockbrokers came third with 12.77 per cent, followed by Merrill Lynch and Warburg Dillon Read.