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Despite Rough November Amid AI Unwind RPD Opportunity Fund Up 35% YTD

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Jacob Wolinsky
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The RPD Opportunity Fund declined 5.15% net in November, bringing year-to-date performance to 35.34% net and inception-to-date returns to 98.43% net. The decline was driven primarily by the long book and cash-secured put writing, partially offset by gains from cash-secured call selling. Our two largest positions drove most of the decline.

Equity indices were volatile during the month. Major benchmarks fell 3–5% intra-month before recovering into month-end, masking more pronounced moves beneath the surface. Under the hood we observed a momentum unwind driven by GenAI ROIC concerns, macro confusion driven by absence of jobs data/rate cut doubts, and risk-off positioning magnified by seasonality. Several software and consumer discretionary names saw significant drawdowns despite relatively stable index-level results. This environment can be seen clearly in the IGV which saw a 10% drawdown over the course of November. This dynamic directly affected

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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 covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.