Alex Popa and Charles Elkan are raising capital for Poesis and will open its
first strategy, AI Clarity, to external clients early next year after managing
it with their own money since August. AI Clarity targets 80–100 U.S. large-cap
stocks with a ~3-year holding horizon; AI agents running quantitative models
pick names and time trades and will short equity indices to hedge detected
downside. Human teams set risk limits and review and approve trades. Popa
previously spent more than 15 years at Capital Group as a U.S. growth fund PM;
Elkan led machine learning at Goldman Sachs. The pair plan to add strategies and
build a multi-strategy vehicle for institutional investors and could manage tens
of billions of dollars with under 100 employees, implying lower operating costs
than large multi-strategy rivals such as Citadel and Millennium.
