»Bantleon Analysts« rank among world's best forecasters

The »Bantleon Economists« rank among the best forecasters in the world. This is the result of the awards of the data provider Bloomberg for the Eurozone and the USA, who has already confirmed the three analysts' excellent forecasting quality for several years. Bloomberg has thus confirmed the view of data provider Refinitiv (Refinitiv Starmine Awards):

• »Bantleon Chief Economist« Dr Daniel Hartmann ranked first together with Jörg Angelé in the Bloomberg forecast for key economic and inflation poll for the Eurozone in 2021 as well as in 2020. According to Bloomberg, he has been one of the best forecasters worldwide for the Eurozone since 2011 and regularly ranks among the »top three« (rank 1: 2021, 2020, 2011; rank 2: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014). According to Refinitiv, he has been among the »top four« for the Eurozone since 2017 (rank 3: 2021, 2020; rank 4: 2019, 2017) and among the »top four« for France since 2016 (rank 1: 2019, 2017, 2016; rank 4: 2021,2020, 2018). 
• »Bantleon Senior Economist« Dr Andreas Busch ranked third in the Bloomberg forecast for key US economic and inflation poll in 2021. According to Bloomberg, he has been one of the »top seven« US economic forecasters worldwide since 2013 (rank 3: 2021, 2020; rank 4: 2019; rank 5: 2016, 2015; rank 6: 2017; rank 7: 2018). According to Refinitiv, he has been among the »top ten« since 2015 (rank 2: 2016; rank 3: 2019, 2015; rank 9: 2020, rank 10: 2018).
• »Bantleon Senior Economist« Jörg Angelé ranked first together with Dr Daniel Hartmann in the Bloomberg forecast for key economic and inflation poll for the Eurozone in 2021 as well as in 2020. According to Bloomberg, he was also among the top ten forecasters for the USA worldwide from 2016 to 2018; since then, he no longer participates in this poll. According to Refinitiv, he has been among the »top ten« for Germany since 2015 (rank 1: 2021, 2020; rank 4: 2017, 2016; rank 8: 2018; rank 10: 2015) and together with Dr Daniel Hartmann he ranked fourth for the Eurozone in 2019 and third in 2020 and 2021.

Both Bloomberg and Refinitiv regularly name the world’s leading experts in terms of the accuracy of their forecasts concerning trends in the biggest economies. To produce their ranking lists, they look at a range of key indicators over a period of one year (Refinitiv) or two years (Bloomberg) and select the forecasters whose assessments have been close to spot-on most often. The indicators used include unemployment, gross domestic product, retail sales, industrial production and the consumer price index.