Excellent financial managers are comparable to A-list celebrities in the business world. Some of these investors came up with new and novel techniques to examine their assets, while others chose stocks almost exclusively by instinct. These investors' trading tactics and mindsets differed significantly, leading to a broad range of investment outcomes. The capacity of these investors to outperform the market regularly is one area in which they do not vary.

Benjamin Graham

Both as an investment manager and a financial instructor, Ben Graham was quite successful. He is the author of several writings, including two investing books considered to be among the most important ever written. In addition, he is generally acknowledged as the founder of two essential investment disciplines, value investing and security analysis. Graham's theory on value investing holds that a given investment should be worth more to an investor in the long run than the amount spent to acquire it.

John Templeton

It is stated that John Templeton was one of the most successful contrarians of the 20th century. John Templeton also said that he made more than a few excellent calls between buying cheap during the Depression and selling high during the Internet boom. Templeton is responsible for establishing some of the world's most significant and profitable foreign investment funds. In 1992, he parted ways with his Templeton funds and went into business with the Franklin Group.

Thomas Rowe Price

It is often acknowledged that Thomas Rowe Price Jr. is "the father of growth investing." He endured the hardships of the Great Depression during his formative years, and the lesson he took away from it was that he should invest in equities rather than avoid them. Price had a cyclical outlook on the financial markets. To differentiate himself from the herd, he started doing something almost unheard of at the time: he started investing in reputable businesses to hold on to them for an extended period. His investing theory centered on the idea that investors should place greater emphasis on selecting individual stocks for the long term. His prosperous career in investing was built on a foundation of self-discipline, adherence to the method, consistency, and preliminary study.

John Neff

In 1964, Neff became an employee of Wellington Management Co., where he remained for more than 30 years and managed three of the company's funds. He was a value investor because he focused on businesses with low price-to-earnings ratios and high dividend yields. His favorite strategy for making investments entailed investing in well-known sectors by way of circuitous routes. He managed the Windsor Fund for 31 years, from 1975 until 1995 when it had a return of 13.7%, much higher than the S&P 500's return of 10.6% over the same period.

Jesse Livermore

Jesse Livermore has neither a formal degree nor prior expertise in stock trading. He was a self-made guy who gained wisdom not just from his successes but also from his failures. Both of these outcomes contributed to the formation of trading notions still prevalent across the market today. Livermore started trading for himself while he was still in his early teens, and it is said that by the time he was sixteen, he had made earnings of over $1,000, which was a significant amount of money back then. Over the subsequent several years, he was successful in betting against the so-called "bucket shops," which were establishments that did not conduct genuine transactions and in which consumers gambled against the house on the fluctuations of stock prices.

Peter Lynch

Between 1977 and 1990, Peter Lynch was the manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, during which time the fund's assets increased from $18 million to $14 billion. More crucially, throughout those same 13 years, Lynch allegedly had a yearly average return of 29 percent, beating the benchmark performance of the S&P 500 Index in 11 of those years. Peter Lynch, who was sometimes referred to as a chameleon, altered his investing strategy to whatever was successful at the moment. When it came time to choose individual equities, however, Peter Lynch adhered to what he was familiar with and could readily comprehend.

George Soros

George Soros was an expert at turning broad-brush economic trends into highly leveraged, profitable bets in bonds and currencies. He was a master of art. Soros was a short-term speculator as an investor, which required him to place massive wagers on the future course of various financial markets. George Soros established the hedge fund firm that is now known as Soros Fund Management in the year 1973. This company later morphed into the well-known and highly regarded Quantum Fund. It is said that he managed this aggressive and profitable hedge fund for about twenty years. During this time, he racked up more than thirty percent returns every year and, on two separate occasions, posted yearly returns of more than one hundred percent.