Few growth-stock managers could match Frederick Kobrick in the 1990s. As Louis Rukeyser wrote in November 1999, Fred was "one of the finest managers of the entire bull market"; Peter Lynch calls him "one of the best stockpickers I have ever met." After 14 years as an alalyst and portfolio manager at Wellington Management, Fred moved to State Street Research in 1985 and eventually ran State Street Research Capitol Fund, one of the top-performing mid-cap-growth funds of the era.