Key Takeaways
- • Gregory J Blotnick, a former hedge fund portfolio manager, has launched Valiant Research LLC, a market intelligence and analytics firm focused primarily on retail investors.
- • Valiant aims to give individual investors research and tools traditionally reserved for hedge funds and professional money managers, based on data-driven analysis grounded in academic finance and real-world investing experience.
- • Blotnick argues that a rise in self-proclaimed experts has left many retail investors paying for guidance that harms their results.
- • Valiant will also serve institutional clients, but Blotnick describes its mission as primarily focused on individuals.
Summary
Gregory J Blotnick, a former hedge fund portfolio manager, has launched Valiant Research LLC, a market intelligence and analytics firm with a particular focus on the retail sector, according to Hedgeweek. Blotnick previously worked at Citadel LLC and Brattle Street Capital, and he launched Brattle Street Capital himself. He also worked at Exis Capital and Doubloon Capital. He brings more than a decade of hedge fund experience to the venture. After earning his MBA at Columbia Business School, he joined Citadel in 2017 as part of a five-person portfolio team managing more than $1bn in gross market value.
Blotnick says the firm is designed to close the knowledge gap between institutional investors and everyday market participants by offering sophisticated yet accessible investment research and tools. He pointed to a surge in public interest in the stock market over the last five years, which he called a positive development. He also criticised a rise in self-proclaimed experts without professional experience. In his words, many retail investors are paying for guidance that steers them in the wrong direction, leaving them worse off than if they had done nothing.
Valiant intends to address this by providing data-driven analysis rooted in academic finance, real-world investment experience and the principles of legendary investors. Although the firm will also serve institutional clients, Blotnick described its mission as primarily focused on individuals.
Blotnick says the firm is designed to close the knowledge gap between institutional investors and everyday market participants by offering sophisticated yet accessible investment research and tools. He pointed to a surge in public interest in the stock market over the last five years, which he called a positive development. He also criticised a rise in self-proclaimed experts without professional experience. In his words, many retail investors are paying for guidance that steers them in the wrong direction, leaving them worse off than if they had done nothing.
Valiant intends to address this by providing data-driven analysis rooted in academic finance, real-world investment experience and the principles of legendary investors. Although the firm will also serve institutional clients, Blotnick described its mission as primarily focused on individuals.
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