Former Sydney Swans defender Leo Barry has moved from winning an AFL premiership medal to taking a financial markets award in the latest analyst and equities rankings compiled by markets consultant East Coles.

Barry, who retired from the Swans at the end of 2009, that year joined the broking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. On Thursday night he took an East Coles award for best small and mid-cap dealer.

That famous Leo Barry mark which saved the 2005 AFL Grand Final for the Sydney Swans.

Barry played more than 235 AFL games over a 14-year career and famously took a mark in the dying seconds of the 2005 grand final which helped secure a Swans victory.