No conference is complete without a multi-million dollar party. And once again, CLSA delivered on the latter.
Last year's theme was 'Sin', but given the recent global criticism of equity analysts, a new theme was obviously required that was a little more aspirational. Accordingly, this year's theme was Utopia spelt 'Yu To Pia' by CLSA.
What was this Utopia exactly Was it a world where there were as many sell recommendations as buys where the analyst could walk in a downy meadow with a fund manager and say You're my best friend where corporate governance and transparency reached new levels of excellence
Or was it a world populated by belly dancers, a bisexual fairy...