Hedge Fund Manager Alix Pasquet: How Small Funds Can Outsmart Multi-Managers
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Alix Pasquet discusses how small hedge funds can leverage competitive advantages to outperform larger multi-manager firms.
Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Alix Pasquet, hedge fund manager and Managing Partner at Prime Macaya Capital, breaks down how fundamental investors build durable edge in modern markets. In this episode, Alix explains the three sources of competitive advantage in the investment business — analytical, informational, and behavioral — and why exploiting group behavior beats behavioral finance checklists. He covers what he learned inside a top quant fund (data scrubbing, transaction costs, temporal stops), how smaller hedge funds compete against multi-manager pods like Citadel and Millennium, and his full idea generation process: investor networks, 13F tracking, thematic collisions, and the customer-investor mismatch. He also makes the contrarian case for technical analysis as a behavioral tool, explains why moats and chart strength are connected, and shares why buying stocks at new highs beats bottom-fishing in a post-2022 market.Later in the conversation, Alix delivers a warning on AI in investing: why over-reliance on AI tools will produce the worst portfolio managers of the next decade, the five core analytical skills every analyst must protect…
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