100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. I love it to see how the big investors act on the market. Some of them have a really interesting and creative investing strategy which works only with huge amounts of capital.

Some hedge funds play with money and try to boost its return by ignoring a good diversification. But if they know the business and management team the risk might be lower as for desk research investors like us.

However, each month I publish a little list about the largest stock buys from 49 super investors. I analyze how often a stock was bought over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. All super gurus combined bought 655 stocks within the recent half year.

London, UK – Tuesday 10th July - A recent survey from Lieberman Software has found that 64% of IT professionals believe their IT outsourcer has invented work for profit and 33% say they trust their outsourcer’s work less than in house – showing that relationships between outsourcers and their customers have reached a real low.

 To add insult to injury, 42% said that outsourcing agreements ended up costing more than originally planned. Despite these views, 71% of companies outsource a significant portion of their IT – up from 43% of respondents in a similar survey last year.

If your retirement account is in good shape this year, you are ahead of Wall Street's finest. One of the world's largest hedge funds has nearly been cut in half.

John Paulson made billions with a huge bet on the housing bubble. His success attracted a flood of capital. At the peak, Paulson's funds managed a whopping $38 billion.

In 2011, though, John Paulson made another huge bet on economic recovery -- a forecast that never came to pass.

His conviction, and the size of his bets, turned against him with a vengeance in 2011. At the end of September, Reuters reports, Paulson's largest fund was down 47%. (His other funds are down double digits too, in varying amounts.)

The Federal Reserve's "Operation Twist" turned out to be a dud... and now multiple bellwethers are predicting global economic slowdown. They came, they saw, they tanked the markets... Wednesday was supposed to be a good day for bulls. High hopes were placed on the Federal Reserve, and the likelihood they would "do something" to keep the economy and asset prices propped up. They did do something. But Operation Twist turned out to be Operation Bust. Hopes were dashed on realizing that a $400 billion shuffle, from short-term Treasuries to long, was all the markets would get. Small beer, that. The idea -- pushing down long-term interest rates to help the U.S. economy -- never made much sense. Long rates were already at rock-bottom lows, a reflection of the fear that things will stay sluggish for years.