Dimitris Giannoulis, Polys Polycarpou, Deutsche Bank
The buy side says: “They get an ‘A’ for effort.”
Debuting in first place is the Deutsche Bank duo of Dimitris Giannoulis and Polys Polycarpou, both of whom are based in Athens. Giannoulis, 36, follows financial institutions; Polycarpou, 33, covers midcap stocks. Last year was terrible for Greece, with the financial sector’s 79.1 percent plunge leading a broad market drop of 62.4 percent. But “even with no trading volume, they still did the research and communicated with us through the downturn,” notes one loyalist. Giannoulis, who holds a master’s degree in financial and banking management from Greece’s University of Piraeus, joined Deutsche in 2007 from Athens-based Alpha Finance. Polycarpou moved from Alpha to Deutsche in 2010; he has a master’s in international securities and investment banking from the U.K.’s University of Reading.
