{"id":92546,"date":"2026-11-11T06:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2026\/goldman-sachs-and-capital-group-veterans-will-open-poesiss-ai-run-equity-strategy-to-outside-investors-in-early-2027.html"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:54:34","slug":"goldman-sachs-and-capital-group-veterans-will-open-poesiss-ai-run-equity-strategy-to-outside-investors-in-early-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2026\/goldman-sachs-and-capital-group-veterans-will-open-poesiss-ai-run-equity-strategy-to-outside-investors-in-early-2027.html","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs and Capital Group Veterans Will Open Poesis’s AI-Run Equity Strategy to Outside Investors in Early 2027:"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Poesis, a Menlo Park-based asset manager founded by former Capital Group partner Alex Popa and former Goldman Sachs global head of machine learning Charles Elkan, plans to open its flagship strategy, AI Clarity, to external capital in early 2027, the firm said. The strategy has traded the founders’ own capital since August 2026.<\/p>\n

AI Clarity invests in 80 to 100 U.S.-listed large-cap stocks with a targeted holding period of about three years, Bloomberg reported. AI agents using quantitative models conduct research, generate trade proposals and help determine timing, while Popa and the investment team set the risk framework and review and approve every trade before execution. A dynamic beta overlay is designed to cut market exposure in stressed markets, including by shorting equity indexes.<\/p>\n

The firm describes the approach as a dual mandate: participating in equity upside while seeking to materially reduce losses in downturns. AI Clarity fell 0.3% in October, compared with a decline of almost 1% for the S&P 500, according to people familiar with its performance. It will charge a 1% management fee and a 20% performance fee.<\/p>\n

Popa spent more than 15 years at Capital Group, where he was a portfolio manager on The Growth Fund of America. Elkan, who serves as chief scientist, also led machine learning in e-commerce and cloud at Amazon and is a longtime computer science professor at UC San Diego. Poesis has 10 employees, and its founders intend to add strategies and eventually build a multistrategy fund for institutional investors, according to the Bloomberg report.<\/p>\n

The pitch is operating leverage: people familiar with the plans said the firm could manage billions of dollars with fewer than 100 employees, far below the headcount of large multistrategy platforms. Allocators will weigh that against a short live track record and the governance questions raised by agent-driven decision making, which Poesis addresses by keeping trade approval with humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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