A STOCK picker’s goal is to beat the market.
Seems straightforward enough for professional fund managers, but throw in a heady mix of subdued global economic conditions, weak corporate earnings, a volatile currency and a continued outflow of foreign money from the local bourse and the whole exercise becomes a mission impossible, or almost.
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