Young Chang & team
UBS
UBS’s Young Chang and team repeat in third place. Seven analysts in Seoul work closely with five others in Hong Kong and Tokyo to track 75 companies across Asia. In July they launched coverage of Com2uS Corp. with a buy, at 38,400 won, on the Seoul-based gaming-software developer’s rising sales and pipeline of new titles. The stock surged 33.3 percent, to 51,200 won, and led South Korea’s broad market by 25.7 percentage points, through April. “It’s a smart group with its fingers on the pulse of the market,” cheers one London-based fund manager. — Ben Mattlin