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Former fund manager | Macro investor | Process first

About Brendan Walsh

I have spent more than two decades building, managing, and marketing institutional portfolios across macro, FX, risk, and multi-asset mandates.

AlphaInvestors came out of a simple frustration: private investors are flooded with opinions, but rarely shown a disciplined way to move from market view to position size. I wanted to build something process-led, practical, and durable enough to run for years.

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Time horizon
Weeks to years, not noise.
Background
Macro, risk, and portfolio construction.
Bias
Process over prediction theatre.
Brendan Walsh
Brendan Walsh
Portfolio manager | Coach | Builder
20+ years Institutional mandates Process-first
The promise

I will not sell you a dream. I want to help people build a workflow for ideas, positioning, risk, execution, and review.

Why I built AlphaInvestors

Most investors are not short of information. They are short of structure.

Markets reward discipline more often than drama. Social media encourages people to chase the hot take, the perfect call, and the fantasy of instant conviction. In the real world, most good results come from risk management, repetition, and decision quality.

That is the gap AlphaInvestors is designed to fill: a calmer, more explicit workflow for deciding what matters, what earns risk, and how a view should be expressed in a portfolio.

No signals. No copy trading. No guru theatre. A process you can keep using.
What I wanted private investors to have
  • A way to set risk before picking trades.
  • A way to turn macro views into actual portfolio choices.
  • A room where ideas get challenged instead of blindly copied.
  • A review loop that makes judgment better over time.

Career snapshot

A mix of macro, FX, risk, and portfolio construction built in the real world and across multiple market regimes.

Institutional portfolio management: built and managed large mandates through crisis and recovery cycles.
Process and risk first: the edge is usually structure and discipline, not one great call.
Education and coaching: thousands of hours helping people move from random outcomes to a repeatable workflow.
Credentials and highlights
  • PhD - University of Edinburgh (Geophysics)
  • Professional Risk Manager (PRM)
  • EQ Derivatives Magazine Hall of Fame (2019)
  • Advisor to a GenAI startup
  • Builder of institutional-style workflows for private investors
AlphaInvestors is educational and process-led. It is not a signal service.

Process over hype

The work is built around a few simple principles that keep decisions grounded.

01
Start with risk

The first job is to decide how much risk the environment deserves before chasing an idea.

02
Make the cycle explicit

If you cannot explain the regime, you should not be confident in the expression.

03
Debate the expression

A theme is not enough. The hard part is deciding what to own, how to size it, and what would change your mind.

04
Review without ego

The review loop matters as much as the entry. Good process compounds.

A quick personal note

I like history, psychology, and anything that explains why people do irrational things with money. I also have an unreasonable affection for honey badgers.

Start with the public workflow

The public pages explain the framework. Start there if you want to see how AlphaInvestors moves from market view to portfolio action.

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