“We're constructing the portfolio around an idiosyncratic idea, whether that's long or short, that's our core idea. And then we're deliberately putting hedges next to that. So on an idea by idea basis, we're extracting that idiosyncratic risk, not just at the portfolio level.”

Pitch The PM · EP. 57: Agentic Winners & Losers: A Tsunami Is Coming with Onnig Terzian, former Balyasny TMT PM

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build portfolios around a single idiosyncratic idea (long or short) and add hedging positions next to it on an idea-by-idea basis rather than at the portfolio level

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