Taiwan's Stock Pickers Are Walking Out to Bet Their Own Money

Fly On Wall Street News Commentary - Taiwan's benchmark stock index was up 62% this year, the best showing of any major equity gauge in the world, when Bloomberg reported on Oct. 16 that some of the island's professional fund managers and analysts are quitting their jobs to invest their own money. Strict rules keep them from trading the very stocks they pick for clients, and in a year when about one in ten stocks in the index has more than doubled, some have decided the trade-off is no longer wo