Secrets from 2020’s best stock-pickers – 4 shiny new trades – Interview with Tesla billionaire

Secrets from 2020’s best stock-pickers – 4 shiny new trades – Interview with Tesla billionaire

Dear Readers,

Being an elite stock-picker in a record-breaking market environment is more difficult that it seems. Sure, you're more likely than not to choose winners with such a broad portion of the market soaring. But what strategies and characteristics can ultimately vault someone into the upper-most percentiles?

That's what the Investing team at Business Insider has been busy trying to figure out through conversations with 2020's top-ranked fund managers.

Cathie Wood from ARK Invest zeroes in on disruptive and technologically advanced platform companies. Garvin Jabusch of Green Alpha Advisors focuses on solving society's biggest problems. And Alex Ely from Macquarie Investment Management arrived at one of his best recent investing ideas while visiting his son at college.

For detailed insights, check out our compilation of interviews with Wall Street's 9 best-performing fund managers of 2020. We'll share how they each crushed a chaotic market this year “” and reveal their biggest bets for 2021.

We also did a Europe-focused edition of our list for the first time ever. Click here to check out similar deep dives on Europe's 5 top-performing fund managers.

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