When we set out to compile our inaugural list of 50 masters of Asian finance, we knew we'd given ourselves a difficult task. Asia is home to a number of highly regarded finance professionals and we understood when we initiated this exercise that singling out just 50 was a huge challenge.
We started by canvassing the opinions of our readers -- we ran a poll on our website for a fortnight in September asking for nominations of people who had defined Asian financial markets during the recent past. We received a number of interesting candidates and some people even nominated themselves -- something we have no problem with. If you're good, we don't expect...