Sell Side Research - Analysts' Call Returns vs Brokers' Polls & Rankings

Is it not strange that not more emphasis is placed on objectively measuring returns from tracking exactly analysts’ calls?

Granted that “whispers” and servicing buy side clients are significant aspects of an analyst’s function – hence the obsession over rankings in brokers polls e.g. II or AsiaMoney (on this side of the world).

But would not an objective ranking of analysts based on their written and published calls be a more important metric to look at?

Bloomberg has its ANR function which does the above half heartedly, and when rankings are published in the financial media some references are made to good calls etc; however i’ve yet to see theoretical portfolios built exactly on analysts’ calls and hypothetical returns updated and published regularly for investors’ consumption though. Or am i missing something here?

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