This year's awards dinner was FinanceAsia's largest, with 400 of Asia's elite turning up to pick up their awards. On the evening we also announced that SingTel's CFO, Chua Sock Koong was our Capital Markets Person of the Year, picking up the mantle from last year's winner, Frank Sixt of Hutchison.
Fine evening dress abounded, but nowhere more so than on the robust frame of UBS Warburg supremo, Mark 'the Admiral' Dowie. Some people may have wondered at his turn of the 18th century British naval uniform, which is a replica of Admiral Nelson's own, as worn at the Battle of Trafalgar. We should point out, however, that unlike Dowie, Nelson...
