Thirty-five cents, you got a plate of red beans and rice and a vegetable.

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Mitchelson and Sit have the portfolio manager titles, but stock picking is really done at weekly five-hour gabfests where 12 people gather around a big jar of jelly beans in Sit Investment Associates' cozy conference room adorned with bamboo wallpaper and an oil painting of foggy mountains west of Shanghai.

FORBES: The jelly bean team