TABLE-Hedge fund managers' investment picks from Sohn conference

NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire investor Larry Robbins on Wednesday kicked off the year's most prominent investment conference by laying out the case that hedge fund investors do not focus on the short term, pointing to his long positions in ThermoFisher Scientific Inc and VCA Inc . Below is a table listing some of the hedge fund managers who have spoken, or will speak, at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, in order of appearance, and the investment ideas they pi