At Insider Monkey we follow over 730 hedge funds and other skilled investors, because our research has showed that imitating some of their picks can help a retail investor generate market-beating returns. The hedge fund industry has lagged over the last couple of years, due to its size (there are currently estimated over $2 trillion held by hedge funds in assets under management), but this doesn’t mean that hedge fund managers have lost their touch in picking great stocks. Some of their underperformance comes from the short picks, which often lose money in a bull market, but they are necessary for...