Henry King & team Goldman Sachs (Asia)
The buy side says: “No noise, no hype — just straight insight.”
Rising one rung to claim the top spot for the first time since 2009 is the Goldman Sachs (Asia) quartet directed by Taipei-based Henry King, 48. The analysts follow 12 stocks and “excel at providing the most useful information to investors,” explains one ally. King, who is under investigation by U.S. authorities in the insider trading case against New York–based hedge fund Galleon Group, could not be reached for comment, but his associates report adding Acer to their conviction sell list in March 2011, at HK$56.28, on concerns about the Taiwan-based computer maker’s ability to restructure against a backdrop of declining sales. By late August, when they removed Acer from the list, the stock had fallen 37.8 percent, to HK$35. Since then it rose 11.9 percent, to HK$39.15, through March. King, who has been at Goldman since 2002, holds an MBA from Loyola University Chicago School of Business Administration.
— Pam Baker
