Sentences with word «stockpicking»

BlackRock has fired several prominent stockpicking fund managers and plans to switch their funds to quantitative investment strategies, in what chief executive Larry Fink called a «pivot» away from areas of active management that have fallen out of favour.

Our bottom - up stockpicking process focuses on buying good companies trading at discounts to their intrinsic values based on fundamental analysis (e.g., price - to - cash - flow multiples or sum - of - the - parts analysis).

In the case of individual stockpicking, an investor is confronted with commissions and fees associated with multiple stocks, dividend inflows, dealing with splits, acquisitions, spinoffs, etc..

Selecting good active funds require skills too, just like stockpicking.

I could easily turn this into an index investing versus stockpicking argument but I won't.

If stockpicking could be quantified, you could rent time on the nearest Cray computer and make a fortune.

There's a good metaphor here for investing, too, namely that people love to debate what individual stocks will do over the next few weeks or months, when there's overwhelming evidence that the majority of variation in portfolio returns is due to asset allocation, not stockpicking (i.e. you're better off ignoring individual stocks completely and keeping your portfolio balanced than spending dozens of hours burrowing through financial statements looking for the next hot stock).

To this day, I think that stockpicking contest was the best ever designed.

No more stockpicking for me.

He subsequently worked as a research analyst for Schelcher Prince before moving on to small cap stockpicking at Oddo.

Stockpicking is dying because there are no more stocks to pick.

''... particularly interesting... goes some way towards discrediting the stockpicking virtues taught to me in my time as a financial journalist.»

But stockpicking is NOT likely to be more profitable than index investing.

Clearly 1500 > 500, he wasn't picking shares from his benchmark's universe, and if I were a betting man I'd bet that much of his outperformance can be explained by portfolio theory rather than stockpicking.

We continue to see opportunities in Europe, but with the market have moved broadly higher and valuations looking fair, in our view, stockpicking is likely to become ever more important in 2018.

By which I mean, that the gains that value investors achieve essentially * arise from the overall changes in valuation of value / small caps, rather than from their our stockpicking ability.