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Self-Taught Investor Beating Peers With Lesson From Lynch
Finny Kuruvilla has a master’s from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate and medical degree from Harvard University.
In his spare time, he taught himself how to invest. Turns out he’s pretty good at it.
The $1.7 billion Eventide Gilead Fund that Kuruvilla runs was the top-performing diversified U.S. stock fund over the past five years, according to Chicago-based Morningstar Inc. Kuruvilla pulled off that feat while working on the fund part-time. Until last year he had a full-time job as a venture capitalist.
Kuruvilla, 40, considers himself a disciple of Peter Lynch, the legendary stock picker at Fidelity Investments, who told investors they should put money into companies whose products they know and understand. Using that strategy, Kuruvilla bought biotech stocks including Pharmacyclics Inc. and NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc., which were later acquired at prices dramatically higher than he paid.
“I use more of my medicine now than when I saw patients,” Kuruvilla said in an interview in Boston, where he is based. “My expertise has been a huge help.”
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