Luis Prieto & team, Deutsche Bank
The buy side says: “They enable us to pick the right stocks.”
Shooting straight in to first place is the Deutsche Bank foursome under the direction of Luis Prieto, who joined the firm in September 2010 from BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research (and led that firm’s team to third place that year). London-based Prieto, 40, earned bachelor’s degrees in law and business administration at Madrid’s Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas, and “his double background lends depth to his analyses,” according to one client. Upon joining Deutsche he and his team reiterated a buy on British homebuilder Taylor Wimpey, at 28.86p, partly on its debt refinancing. The stock surged 29.9 percent, to 37.50p, through December 2011. In January last year, the team relaunched coverage on Spain’s Ferrovial with a buy, at €7.70, largely on valuation. The construction and airport-maintenance operator’s shares had shot up 20.5 percent, to €9.33, by year-end. “Luis is a beacon,” declares one backer.
