He's running two mutual funds -
just as stock pickers are losing favor and investors are flocking to index funds.
«My weapon of
choice as a stock picker is research; it's critical for me to understand a company's value before laying down a dime.
While that is certainly true, looking at how the manager of a fund has performed versus its benchmark in the past can indicate whether or not he or she has a good track
record as a stock picker.
It's an odd recommendation, I know, from a guy who spent a
career as a stock picker but it is the only defensible advice I can give given my experiences and what I observed.
Well, the efficient market theory is obviously roughly right — meaning that markets are quite efficient and it's quite hard for anybody to beat the market by significant
margins as a stock picker by just being intelligent and working in a disciplined way.
As stock pickers often use some form of a systematic approach to find value in the myriad of investment seminars, trend reports, charts & graphs, lunar cycles, PE ratios, earnings reports, quarterly forecasts et.
Given my woeful misjudging of London property prices (they went on to double) I'm probably lucky I fancied
myself as a stock picker rather than a real estate tycoon.
As a stock picker, you're like a lone fund manager without access to company directors, teams of researchers, or any of the training or tools enjoyed by fund managers.
As a stock picker you can be a day trader and actively trade pushing your portfolio turnover well above 100 %.
Most started out in mutual funds or
as stock pickers and, somewhere along the line, realized they were overpaying and underperforming.
We can't afford the luxury of ignoring the broader picture,
as some stock pickers might.
As a stock picker, I find that there are often both beaten - up stocks and overpriced stocks in the markets most of the time.
As a stock picker I'm investing to beat the market over the long term.