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Raj Moorthy: Go Where The Alpha Is

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Notes of Advantage Alpha Capital's Raj Moorthy from the 2020 SohnX San Francisco Conference.

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Raj Moorthy of Advantage Alpha Capital

  • What happened to alpha
  • Erosion in long short
  • Narrow strategies
  • Can’t continue doing what everyone is doing
  • Go where the alpha is
  • Find the inefficiencies
  • Found it in small cap
  • Most investors know this
  • Most share of capital is in mid and large caps
  • 2 constraints of small cap
  • Illiquidity, hard to buy and sell at scale
  • Extreme volatility
  • How to exploit
  • Dispersion in quality and returns
  • EBITDA margin as a proxy for quality
  • Filter for quality
  • No value or growth
  • Fundamental driven quality, not quant driven
  • Company by company
  • 70-80 in portfolio
  • Not concentration driven alpha
  • Address illiquidity
  • Differentiating for quality generates around 7% alpha
  • The market environment doesn’t...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid