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Equity Analysts make money by giving buy/sell recommendations, and are compensated for doing this - not for investing their own money.

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Yea, compensated by the companies they analyze for their bloated recommendations. Companies depend on that to keep the house of cards standing though it obviously doesn't always work as the case of Enron shows. If analysts were required to save 1/3 of their salary in a portfolio comprised of their recommendations and only be able to liquidate a position once their customers had, I wonder how many would stay in that business.

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no intelligent one would, again, for all kinds of reasons. but I don't see the what the point is.

I love my job, but I wouldn't keep it if I was required to re-invest 1/3 of my salary back into the company, and could only sell my shares once everybody else can.