Alan Berro of the Capital Group is the best individual fund manager...

Alan Berro of the Capital Group is the best individual fund manager, Fidelity Investments the best fund management group and Merrill Lynch the best source of broker research, according to large-cap corporations responding to Reuters’ annual survey on investment research, sales and trading. The survey was conducted over three months. According to fund management groups surveyed, the best broker research comes from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the best broker sales group and the best broker execution are at Salomon Smith Barney, and the best sector research team is the electrical equipment team at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The survey included 315 of the 500 largest corporations and 71 of the 150 largest institutional investors in U.S. large-cap equities.