BankAtlantic Bancorp Investor Relations Team Ranked Number One in Institutional Investor Research Group's 2004 Investor Relations Survey.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- The BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBX BBX Business Basic Extended BBX Business Barter Exchange BBX Blue Bell, Pennsylvania (Airport Code) BBX Blockbuster Express (UK video store) ) investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. team has been ranked by sell-side analysts as the nation's number one investor relations group in the mid-cap bank category, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Institutional Investor Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. Research Group's 2004 U.S. Investor Relations Survey, published on January 13, 2005. The annual survey ranks the best investor relations efforts based on voting results from two distinct groups: 1) buy-side analysts and portfolio managers and 2) sell-side analysts. The results include a listing of the top three companies across 44 sectors for the buy-side survey and 38 sectors for the sell-side survey. Along with BankAtlantic Bancorp, the list of 2004 sell-side survey winners include highly revered veteran organizations, such as Dell, Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
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