For Jeffrey Vinik, a Well-Timed Exit is the Ultimate Stock-Picker’s Finale

The famed money manager found that the struggle to raise money for an actively managed equity strategy was real.

Jeffrey Vinik (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Jeffrey Vinik

(Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Of the many lessons to be gleaned from Jeffrey Vinik’s decades-long career as a stock-picking virtuoso, the most important came last Wednesday: Know when to pack it in.

The billionaire founder of Vinik Asset Management said he is closing the firm’s newly re-launched hedge fund as of November 15.

“It

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