Gary Taylor Citi

Gary Taylor of Citi takes second place for a fourth straight year. “He really knows how to find alpha opportunities by breaking with the consensus,” says one satisfied investor. Taylor upgraded Emergency Medical Services Corp. from neutral to buy in August 2009, at $41.75, on the contrarian belief that management’s earnings guidance was too low. By the end of August 2010, shares of the Greenwood Village, Colorado–based ambulance network had zipped to $48.05, for a gain of 15.1 percent.