Ex-Cambridge Batsman's Fund Scores With Mid-Caps, Turns to Tech

  • TT Long-Short Focus hedge fund gains 27%, fifth in top 25 list
  • London manager targeting technological change in 2016

XXXX of the White Ferns/Australia bats/bowls/celebrates during the fourth Twenty20 match between the New Zealand and Australia at Queens Park on February 19, 2011 in Invercargill, New Zealand.

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Hedge fund manager Vikram Kumar invests like he played cricket, staying patient for the right balls to bat to build long innings.

Kumar, a former batsman at Cambridge University, stuck by his investments at the TT Long-Short Focus Fund that lost money in 2014. The next year, his $420 million fund bounced back to return about 27 percent, the fifth best performer in Bloomberg’s global ranking of the top 25 hedge funds with between $250 million and $1 billion in assets.