In this market, what does a stock picker do to prove he's smart, too?
Los Angeles hedge fund manager Mohnish Pabrai, 39, seems to have some talent as a stock picker.
Investing for over 28 years, he has earned a national reputation as a savvy stock picker and portfolio manager.
She says Ron Baron's long history as an accomplished stock picker is why she likes Baron Growth despite the expenses.
You might find it surprising to hear a stock picker advising people to buy indexes, but Arnott is absolutely right.
Two weeks into the April market, only one stock picker, the Options Tactician, still had 50% gains on his 11-week-old portfolio.
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After the general market bounceback of 1975-76, stock investors had to become an individual stock picker, a la Lynch, to make money.
In our most recent analyst ranking, conducted in partnership with StarMine, Groh was the No. 1 stock picker in his category.
If you want to be involved in the market right now, you have to take a more active approach and be a selective stock picker.
Citigroup 's Joe Brent is not only StarMine's top-ranked stock picker in the U.K. and Ireland, but this 12-year veteran also holds the No. 2 slot for all of Europe.
StarMine's second best stock picker for the region believes that companies with significant business in continental Europe and North America will fare well--if they can survive the global surge in commodity prices.
Yes, he was a stock picker and now after many years of reading newsletters, watching cable news and picking up tips from waiting rooms to water coolers he was done-once and for all.
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The fourth-best stock picker is Miami-based Bill Gordon, a former advisory letter analyst who spends from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. each trading day monitoring his investments and researching stocks from his home office.
Following the dot com bubble, I realized that I was not cut out to be a stock picker, but I wanted to help others when it came to financial decisions, so I looked into becoming a financial planner.
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Famously, author and investing legend Burton Malkiel suggested in A Random Walk Down Wall Street that you could get monkeys to toss darts at the financial listings in a newspaper and do just as well as a pro stock picker.
Citigroup 's (nyse: C - news - people ) Joe Brent is not only StarMine's top-ranked stock picker in the U.K. and Ireland, but this 12-year veteran also holds the No. 2 slot for all of Europe.
Reed, 72, had been a deft stock picker for years. (Many of his colleagues asked him to manage their pension and profit-sharing accounts.) His prime targets are large companies with predictable businesses, little debt, decent returns on equity and capable management.
In this type of environment, you have to be a really, really good stock picker and that is both on the long and the short side, because just when you think things are getting better they will turn around, and just when you think things are getting worse they will turn around and get better.
In my prior role as Senior Equity Analyst of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, I was the top stock picker for the SSS and helped produce the only investment newsletter ranked in the top ten (out of 186) in overall performance on a five-year, three-year, and one-year basis according to newsletter ranking service Hulbert Financial Digest.
But few shorts have been as vocal, or as prescient, as the Howard University graduate and self-taught stock-picker.
He is a cool, collected man familiar both with celebrity Morningstar named him stock-picker of the decade three years ago and controversy.
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Although a stock-picker who underperforms benchmark share-price indices will find himself out of a job, there are no benchmarks for investment consultants themselves.
He began his finance career as an analyst of consumer companies at Goldman Sachs, and went on to make his fortune at Omega as a traditional stock-picker.
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