SECOND TEAM

Marco Greco & team Mediobanca

Marco Greco steers Mediobanca’s crew of 11 to a second consecutive second-place finish. The Milan-based analysts “consistently have their finger on the pulse of the market, and they’re especially good on the smaller companies,” insists one portfolio manager. A top call was a yearlong outperform rating on Fiat; the team believed that the Turin-based automaker’s management would continue to capitalize on the company’s minority stake in and global alliance with Chrysler Group, an agreement that had been established in January 2009 and provided Fiat with a cost-effective way to increase its market share in North America. Selling at €10.07 at the outset of 2010, Fiat’s stock had revved to €15.43 by the end of the year, a 53.2 percent jump that sped past the broad Italian market by a stunning 65.1 percentage points.