Hedge Fund Manager

BlackRock's HPS fund paid about $600M of $1.2B requested, Unicus Research founder finds

12 arguments: why she thinks private-credit defaults are understated, how collateral was pledged twice, and why AI data-center debt is the first thing…

Nov 9 • Scuttlebutt

"Weakness is going to get more weakness": hedge fund manager on $10B of tech ETF buying

4 calls: why the AI names' falling shares raise their cost of capital, why he will not touch Anthropic, and why he is short tech and long gold

Nov 9 • Scuttlebutt

Kai Volatility founder on 60/40: "60/40 made 0% returns from 1900 to 1920"

9 arguments: why the Fed's hawkish turn was theater, how a Treasury crisis makes the Fed the buyer of last resort, and why money sent to the bottom is…

Nov 9 • Scuttlebutt

Kai Volatility founder: a meaningful crisis will be allowed to happen before June 2027

12 calls: why Washington's plan is "print money, buy stocks," how a $300T equity market became too big to fail, and the 4 building blocks he says…

Nov 8 • Scuttlebutt

AI investment industry is getting ahead of itself, says Moody's chief economist

4 calls: why Citi says semis are mispriced, Bernstein's next Eli Lilly catalyst, and the Nvidia math Unlimited's CEO says leaves no room for…

Nov 7 • Scuttlebutt

75% of neocloud GPU renters won't survive 3 years, Niles Investment Management finds

7 takeaways: Anthropic's IPO needs a cheaper valuation, Meta's own 10-K shows a tight financing environment, and Dan is buying dips in Microsoft, Google…

Oct 24 • Scuttlebutt

AI exposure at a 3-year low, but even more positive on 2027–28, says Altimeter's CEO

6 arguments: how Anthropic's forecast went from $30B to at least $100B, why Josh Brown says hot CPI doesn't matter, and the chip stocks Stephanie Link…

Oct 16 • Scuttlebutt

CNBC's Investment Committee: the S&P's 2.3% Q3 gain is misleading

5 arguments: why tech capex is intact despite the political blowback, the Barclays stat behind a "misleading" 2.3% Q3 gain, and the AI financing wall…

Oct 13 • Scuttlebutt

Halftime Report panel: Nvidia's own AI supply deals top $400 billion

3 takeaways: why the panel calls OpenAI's financing "circular," the 44% Mag-7 wealth effect propping up consumer spending, and the one thing that would…

Oct 10 • Scuttlebutt

Ex-Neuberger PM on Big Tech: "70% of their AI revenue is from Anthropic and OpenAI"

14 takeaways: why he counts more than 60% of the S&P 500 as one AI trade, why US banks are safe for the first time in his life, and why he closed his…

Oct 9 • Scuttlebutt

CNBC's Fast Money traders: if the US won't deter Iran, crude oil needs a risk premium

5 arguments: why energy is an investment rather than a trade, China as the oil market's buyer of last resort, a 3-to-1 setup in bank stocks before…

Oct 9 • Scuttlebutt

Heavy use of AI will rot investors' brains, says Egerton Capital's founder

19 lessons: why he hates EV/EBITDA, the 2008 crisis London missed, 40 stocks against the fashion for concentration, a poor year, and KKR's chief…

Oct 8 • Scuttlebutt

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