cherry picking

cherry picking definition - finance
  1. In a bankruptcy action, the process in which competitors purchase only the best assets and leave behind the rest.
  2. The action of a new portfolio manager in selecting only the best investments from a predecessorÂ’s portfolio.
  3. Assigning winning trades to the traderÂ’s own account or the account of a favored client.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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