Economics
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For a record 31 consecutive years, Ed Hyman of ISI Group takes top honors.
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Finishing in first place for a ninth straight year is Mitsubishi UFJ economist Nobuyuki Saji, 51, who impresses clients with his ability to combine “macroeconomic analysis and microeconomic information,” as one investor puts it.
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Masatoshi Kikuchi vaults from runner-up to finish in first place for the first time.
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Daiwa’s Takaaki Yoshino, who extends his reign to a fifth consecutive year, “is very good at applying academic financial theory to real markets,” according to one portfolio manager.
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Gray Newman, 51, shepherds the Morgan Stanley foursome to No. 1 for a second consecutive year — and for the seventh time in eight years.