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Insights on pod shops

Insights on pod shops

Hello,

Would like to ask a simple question on pod shops as my knowledge is small and my vision over simplistic I guess :

For me the main thing is giving money to uncorrelated PMs, the volatility goes down and you put leverage ( Millenium exposure over 600B on SEC filing but only 87B from clients ).

Is that this simple ? What is the main challenge then, attracting talents, scaling with the AUM as some strategies can be constrained ?

What about their risk management ? Read from an LLM ( that was probably hallucinating ) that if a drawdown of more than 5% capital is pulled. Is it “just” about cutting the losers that see their alpha decay and keep attracting some uncorrelated PMs ?

Heard from this LLM also that returns are regressed on factors to see if only some “pure alpha”, is this true ? How does this work in practice, what is the selection process ?

As I said this is my simplistic view, now I would like to know where are the subtleties. If someone has some advices in the comments or that could just let me slide in their DM would be very much appreciated. I guess I just cannot be ignorant on this and would mean so much if I could get insights from people with proper understanding!

Thank you so much

Insights on pod shops

Hello,

Would like to ask a simple question on pod shops as my knowledge is small and my vision over simplistic I guess :

For me the main thing is giving money to uncorrelated PMs, the volatility goes down and you put leverage ( Millenium exposure over 600B on SEC filing but only 87B from clients ).

Is that this simple ? What is the main challenge then, attracting talents, scaling with the AUM as some strategies can be constrained ?

What about their risk management ? Read from an LLM ( that was probably hallucinating ) that if a drawdown of more than 5% capital is pulled. Is it “just” about cutting the losers that see their alpha decay and keep attracting some uncorrelated PMs ?

Heard from this LLM also that returns are regressed on factors to see if only some “pure alpha”, is this true ? How does this work in practice, what is the selection process ?

As I said this is my simplistic view, now I would like to know where are the subtleties. If someone has some advices in the comments or that could just let me slide in their DM would be very much appreciated. I guess I just cannot be ignorant on this and would mean so much if I could get insights from people with proper understanding!

Thank you so much

Hello,

Would like to ask a simple question on pod shops as my knowledge is small and my vision over simplistic I guess :

For me the main thing is giving money to uncorrelated PMs, the volatility goes down and you put leverage ( Millenium exposure over 600B on SEC filing but only 87B from clients ).

Is that this simple ? What is the main challenge then, attracting talents, scaling with the AUM as some strategies can be constrained ?

What about their risk management ? Read from an LLM ( that was probably hallucinating ) that if a drawdown of more than 5% capital is pulled. Is it “just” about cutting the losers that see their alpha decay ?

As I said this is my simplistic view, now I would like to know where are the subtleties. If someone has some advices in the comments or that could just let me slide in their DM would be very much appreciated. I guess I just cannot be ignorant on this and would mean so much if I could get insights from people with proper understanding!

Thank you so much