David Tailleur & team Rabobank
The buy side says: “The team offers great insightinto the local market.”
The Rabobank team under the direction of Utrecht-based David Tailleur shoots straight in at No. 1 in this sector, which has not been published since 2007. Money managers applaud the 12-member squad’s “outstanding access and close relationships with smaller companies that a lot of other firms tend to overlook,” as one backer puts it. The analysts’ best calls of the past year include a June upgrade from hold to buy on Crucell, at €14.86, on the strength of the Leiden, Netherlands–based biopharmaceuticals company’s rising market share. By the end of December, the stock had shot up 58.8 percent, to €23.60, and soared past the broad market by 51.3 percentage points. Tailleur, 37, joined Rabobank in 2000 after working as an auditor with international accounting firm KPMG. He graduated from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management in 1997 with a master’s degree in business administration.
