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  • noun Plural form of stockpicker.

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Examples

  • Equity investing over the past decade has been dominated by "stockpickers," who seek to invest in the right companies in the hope of substantially beating the benchmark index through the outperformance of their share prices.

    Cautious on Equity Hedge Funds 2010

  • I tend to side with the latter case, and will continue saying this is NOT a "stockpickers" market - it is an "asset/sector allocation" market.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • But gamblers, like stockpickers, should be warned against betting the house on Macquarie repeating its success next year: The sport of kings has a habit of creating paupers.

    Macquarie Revamps Melbourne Cup Model, Wins Again David Winning 2011

  • Big Bear's popularity with penny stockpickers may be related to payments made by two companies to promoters.

    Big Bear Mining Boss' Claims Contradicted By SEC Filing 2010

  • In documents posted on the pension plan's Web site, the fund's trustees wrote that they had placed an upper limit on the amount they would entrust to stockpickers: 40% of its equities holdings.

    Shell's Pension Fund Shies Away From Active Management Mark Cobley 2010

  • However, stockpickers weren't the only managers to outperform during 2008.

    Global-Equity Funds Win 2009

  • Fans of active stockpickers have argued that those managers should do better than index funds in a bear market, because they can move to cash or more defensive shares.

    Managed Funds Offer Little Cover From the Bear 2009

  • Vinik, Posner and 16 other highly paid stockpickers beat a path out of Fidelity, while at Vanguard Jack Bogle smoothly passed on his CEO title to longtime protEgE Jack Brennan.

    The Light Went On 2008

  • This one's for nostalgic 40-something stockpickers who like to read Peter Lynch's trend-surfing tales.

    Read Until You're Rich 2008

  • Whitmore attempted to assure stockpickers at an analysts 'meeting that Kodak is not in a "crisis situation" like Sears and IBM.

    Picture This Executive Battle 2008

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