Brian Chase & team J.P. Morgan
The buy side says: “Brian Chase has both global expertise and local flavor.”
Brian Chase guides the five-strong J.P. Morgan squad up a notch to claim first-place honors for the first time; Chase also leads the top-ranked team in Chile. The analysts, who are based in Santiago, initiated coverage of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. in April 2009 with an overweight rating, dubbing the Toronto-listed shares of the Colombian oil exploration and production provider a bargain at C$5.72. By the end of July 2010, the shares had catapulted a heart-stopping 331.1 percent, to C$24.66, and trounced the Chilean broad market by 288.4 percentage points. Chase, 32, joined J.P. Morgan from UBS in April 2008. He earned dual bachelor’s degrees — in business economics and organizational behavior and management — at Rhode Island’s Brown University in 2000. Chase has “an accurate understanding of the environment that impacts local companies’ activities,” insists one fund manager.
