Glenn Schorr UBS

After having fallen to runner-up last year, Glenn Schorr returns to the No. 2 spot he occupied from 2004 to 2008. Portfolio managers value the analyst, who joined Nomura Securities in August from UBS, for providing “top-notch access to management” and “deeper insights than his peers.” Clients continue to praise Schorr’s prescient May 2008 downgrade from buy to neutral on State Street Corp., at $71.60, partly on doubts about the quality of the Boston-based institutional money manager’s loans. By early June 2010, when the analyst discontinued coverage on all his stocks in anticipation of his departure from the firm, the stock had plummeted to $36.47, tumbling 25.4 percent in the preceding 12 months alone.