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What our Clients Say About Us
"Nurses, miners, teachers, babies, babies with parents
over the age of 18... vote for me!!!"
Neil Kinock, Spitting Image, circa mid 1980s.
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"The only problem with free elections is that you never know who is going to win."
Josef Stalin (or was it Tung Chee Hwa?)
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Apologies for this Obnoxious Self-Promotion......
Let me say at the outset, I have never been one to get too fussed about financial industry beauty parades. In my humble opinion such surveys are biased towards analysts who are working at the major houses, and many respondents tend to either delegate the task of completing the survey to the office junior or put down the names of well-known analysts, deserved or not (and remember, I was on the fund management side in a previous life and saw it happen). The result is that it often takes years to break into the league tables but once you are there, it can also take years to get ejected again. In my own case (see below) I was still garnering votes well after I'd left WDR while in extremis, one analyst continued to get himself ranked for at least a year after he had died!
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Nevertheless, at the risk of sounding churlish, I should stress that it is always nice when people take the time to vote for you and express their appreciation for your work (thanks Mum). And although I never made it a point to deliberately phone clients at polling season and tout for their vote, to say I was completely indifferent would be disingenuous since if nothing else, the powers who controlled the bonus pool tended to get quite excited about this sort of thing.
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......but if you've got it, Flaunt it!
For clients unfamiliar with the financial industry's Miss World contests, all of the quotes and poll results set out below are from a selection of various annual surveys of broker analysts by fund managers. I have to say that the first award on this list, The Asset's September 2000 poll, is probably the most pleasing as it was garnered as an independent after an absence of 18 months from the competition. After all, the more independents that get votes, the more the major houses will have to start worrying about research integrity again.
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So thank you to everyone, who made it their business to vote for my team and make the kind comments that follow. They really were appreciated and now are being usefully re-cycled into this puff piece for DSGAsia. Obnoxious I know, but you have to market your wares somehow...
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The Asset - September 2000
Asian Equities Research Poll - 2000: Second place - Best regional economist.

  • "After a short sabbatical (one and a half years) Simon Ogus was welcomed back."

The Asset - September 1999
Asian Equities Research Poll - 1999: Second place - Best regional economist and strategist (half a year after I had left WDR!)

  • "There were many great things said about Simon Ogus who would have taken the number one economist slot had he not left WDR to return to university."

The Asset - April 1999

  • Best Fixed Income Analyst and Economist.
  • "Ogus is the best. He is truly an original thinker"
  • "Simon Ogus is the exception: adjectives used to describe him include 'creative', 'original', 'comprehensive' and 'knowledgeable'."
    Institutional Investor - April 1999
    The 1999 All-Asia Research Team: Second place - Economics; Runner-up - Fixed income strategy.

The Reuters Survey 1998 - December 1998
Top Individual Broker analyst.
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AsiaMoney - October 1998
Stockbrokers' Poll 1998: Runner-up - Best regional economist.

Institutional Investor - April 1998
The 1998 All-Asia Research Team: Second place - Economics; Third place - Fixed income strategy

  • "[Ogus] was the only one to say, as far back as last summer [1997], that South Korea would have the largest bailout in history by year-end."
  • "Ogus' forecast of 2% growth for Singapore in 1998, rediculed when it was made in the third quarter, was the consensus number by year-end 1997."

EuroMoney - August 1997
Asian Brokers Poll: Second place - Economics

Institutional Investor - April 1997
The 1997 All-Asia Research Team: Second place - Economics; Third place - Fixed income strategy.

  • "Not enough economists relate their macro forecasts to what they think will happen in the various markets, and [Ogus] does that."

AsiaMoney - October 1996
Stockbrokers' Poll 1996: Runner-up - Best regional economist

  • "I find Simon to be a more intellectually challenging economist than the others out there.
  • "I think he does an outstanding job at interpreting and predicting economies."
  • "He efficiently links foreign exchange to the equity markets and his reports are also particularly insightful in terms of interest rates."

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