Yin Luo  Deutsche Bank Securities

The buy side says: “He does a very good job of combining the latest academic research into his quant models.”

Previously unranked Yin Luo shoots straight in to first place. Luo, 36, joined Deutsche Bank Securities in January 2010 from Macquarie Capital in New York, where he was head of quantitative research, and has already made quite an impact on clients. “He includes earnings growth and price-to-sales ratios in his models, like everyone else, but he also brings in other elements,” explains one fund manager. “He can do a plain-­vanilla valuation matrix and ­earnings-growth model and throw in a credit rating, and he also employs research from academics or signals from other assets.” Luo has constructed a long/short pure-­alpha portfolio designed to generate positive returns regardless of whether the market is up or down; he rebalances it each month based on the growth potential, market sentiment, momentum and other dynamics of some 200 to 250 stocks. In the 12 months through August, he says, his portfolio returned 10.3 percent, with a risk — or annualized standard deviation — of 4.7 percent; during the same period the Standard & Poor’s 500 index returned 16.2 percent, but it bore nearly three times the risk: 13.9 percent. Luo holds two MBAs, one in finance from the University of Windsor Odette School of Business, earned in 1997, and the other in management and accounting from the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, received in 1999.