The #1 stock picks for 2021

Welcome to one of Livewire's favourite times of the year, and we're not just talking about Christmas or summer, or having that well-earned after-work silly season cocktail.  No, it's that very exciting moment when we invite some of the country's finest stock-pickers to put on their tipping caps and pitch which companies they believe will soar to fresh highs over the next 12 months.  A quick look at the stocks our fundies have picked previously shows their choices reward attention. In 2019 they well and truly beat the benchmark, returning an average of 59% (an outperformance of 35.86%). And even during tumultuous 2020, our fundies' roared to return an average of 13.88%, beating the benchmark by 10.26%. Here are the 10 fundies putting on their tipping caps for 2021:   Ben Clark, TMS Capital David Allingham, Eley Griffiths Group Vihari Ross, Magellan Kelli Meagher, Sage Capital Chris Demasi, Montaka Global Investments Julia Weng, Paradice Investment Management Matthew Booker, Spheria Asset Management Olivia Salmon, Lennox Capital Dr Bianca Ogden, Platinum Asset Management Matthew Kidman, Centennial Asset Management