​EFG Hermes has today confirmed its commitment to providing its clients with quality research products with the launch of the EFG Hermes Focus List. This innovative research tool lists the investment bank’s top ten stock picks from across the Middle East and North Africa region. The Focus List combines our distinct regional insight and research expertise and helps our clients identify investment opportunities in an otherwise difficult market,” said Eiji Aono, Head of EFG Hermes Research. “Sound and impartial research is now a fundamental tool in sustaining the increased interest from international investors in the MENA region and the Focus list will demonstrate which stocks hold the best value.” EFG Hermes Research will update the Focus List on a weekly basis depending on stock market movements. It will take into consideration all equity stocks across the MENA region, combining those which are covered by EFG Hermes’ extensive research as well as those which are outside its current research universe. EFG Hermes Research was named the top research house in the region in 2008, for the second year in a row, in Euromoney’s Annual Middle East Equity Research Poll.