Capital Alliance Podcast

Ken Majmudar
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The Capital Alliance Podcast is built for fund managers navigating the path from strong returns to lasting firm. Each episode tackles what nobody talks about openly in the industry raising capital beyond your inner circle, building real operational infrastructure, getting in front of allocators who don't already know your name, and making the leap from running a fund to building an institution. Guests include fund managers, professional investors, and researchers. We dig into what actually gets allocators to write a check, how operators solve the hiring, compliance, and back-office problems that keep small teams stuck, and what separates the funds that scale from the ones that stall. We also go deep on the craft itself, investment philosophy, long-term value creation, portfolio construction, and the ideas shaping how serious capital gets deployed.

Episodes

  1. May 30

    He Built the Research Platform for Event-Driven Investing | Asif Suria

    Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Asif Suria, Founder and CEO of Inside Arbitrage, a leading research platform focused on event-driven investing strategies. Asif brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise and decades of market experience. Starting his career in technology during the dot-com era, he transitioned into investing through some of the most volatile market cycles—from the dot-com crash to the Global Financial Crisis—before building Inside Arbitrage into a trusted platform used by professional investors worldwide. We dive deep into event-driven investing, including merger arbitrage, spinoffs, insider trading signals, and activist strategies. Asif breaks down how he built proprietary tools to track hundreds of live deals, process SEC filings in real time, and generate high-quality investment ideas through data and pattern recognition. He also shares how reading You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt shaped his approach, why “seasons” exist within investing strategies, and how overlapping signals—like insider buying + spinoffs + M&A—can create asymmetric opportunities. We cover: - How Asif transitioned from tech to investing during the dot-com crash Building Inside Arbitrage and turning it into a subscription business - The fundamentals of merger arbitrage and how to track deal spreads - Why insider buying can be powerful—but also misleading - The concept of “idea generation” vs. conviction investing - How macro environments impact strategy performance - Real-world case studies combining multiple event-driven strategies - Why timing and urgency matter in event-driven investing This episode is a masterclass on finding non-obvious edges in public markets. Follow Asif Suria: Inside Arbitrage: https://www.insidearbitrage.com X : https://x.com/AsifSuria Asif's Book The Event Driven Edge in Investing : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201953634-the-event-driven-edge-in-investing Follow Capital Alliance: Capital Alliance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mycapital-alliance/ Capital Alliance on X : https://x.com/CapitalAll79917 Follow Ken Majmudar : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenmajmudar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenmajmudar/ Substack: https://compoundideas.substack.com/

    1h 4m

  2. May 1

    Scaling From $125K to $40M AUM: He Left Goldman During a Crisis to Start a Fund - Matthew Peterson

    Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Matthew Peterson, Managing Partner of Peterson Capital Management and a 25-year veteran of the investing world. Matt is one of the most respected concentrated value investors of his generation. He spent nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs in credit risk consulting across New York and London before walking away to launch his own fund, with just $100,000 of his own capital and $25,000 from a friend. Matt shares how he went from teaching English in China and modeling credit risk for Goldman to building Peterson Capital Management into a multi-fund platform with $40M+ AUM, a 13.7% long-term annualized return, and a 60%+ net return year in 2024. He opens up about the "Valley of Death" every emerging fund manager has to survive, the year a public company in his concentrated portfolio turned out to be fraudulent, and the years of going without a paycheck while clawing back to high watermarks. We cover the "Who, Not How" mindset shift that transformed his business, his frugal-vs-cheap framework for high-ROI spending, how he uses AI agents and 50,000-run Monte Carlo simulations to build conviction on macro and energy trades, why he believes oil and gas will stay higher for longer, and how a casual backyard barbecue in Omaha grew into the Berkshire Soirée, one of his most powerful marketing assets.

    1h 12m

  3. Apr 1

    From $1M to $1B AUM: How Saurabh Mukherjea Built His Fund With No Salaries

    Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Saurabh Mukherjea, the Founder and CIO of Marcellus Investment Managers. Saurabh is one of India’s most influential fund managers, a prolific author of bestsellers like Coffee Can Investing, and a pioneer in democratizing investing for the Indian public. Saurabh shares how he went from being an immigrant kid in suburban London to building the fastest $1 Billion AUM firm in India. Follow Saurabh Mukherjea: Marcellus Investment Managers: https://marcellus.in Saurabh on Twitter/X: https://x.com/saborwm Saurabh’s book Coffee Can Investing : https://www.amazon.in/Coffee-Can-Inve... Capital Alliance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/myca... Follow Ken Majmudar : Linkedin :   / kenmajmudar  Instagram :   / kenmajmudar

    1h 15m

  4. Mar 9

    How He Picks Stocks for 500,000 Investors | Pieter Slegers (Compounding Quality)

    Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://shorturl.at/72hTF In this episode of Capital Alliance, we sit down with Pieter Slegers, the founder of Compounding Quality, one of the world’s fastest-growing stock research newsletters with 480,000+ email subscribers and 500,000+ social media followers. Pieter shares how he went from stocking shelves at 13 and losing 60% on his first investment to building one of the largest investing newsletters in the world all while developing a disciplined quality investing framework that professional and retail investors alike have come to rely on. We cover his 15-point stock analysis framework, why he believes S&P 500 returns could drop to 5–6% over the next decade, how he built his audience from zero, the economics behind a newsletter business, and his honest take on what AI means for stock research. Follow Pieter Slegers: : Compounding Quality Newsletter: https://www.compoundingquality.net Pieter on Twitter/X: https://x.com/QCompounding Pieter’s book:   / the-art-of-quality-investing  Follow Capital Alliance: Capital Alliance on LinkedIn:   / mycapital-alliance

    1h 4m

  5. Mar 9

    How I Built a 20M AUM Investment Firm From Scratch | Gautam Baid | Capital Alliance Podcast

    👉 Join The Capital Alliance waiting list here: https://9softj28uhz.typeform.com/to/E... In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Gautam Baid to discuss the real business of building and running an investment fund. We covered how he launched a US-based fund investing in the indian market from scratch. How he  structured operations, raised capital, and scaled AUM with a long-term focus on durability. This conversation is designed for fund managers and operators interested in the mechanics of fund management beyond performance, including capital raising, firm structure, and investor relations. If you’re a fund manager operating at scale and interested in peer-level conversations around capital, structure, and long-term durability discover The Capital Alliance Mastermind by clicking here : https://mycapitalalliance.com/ Follow Gautam Baid on X : https://x.com/gautam__baid Check Gautam's Book "The Joys of Coumpounding" : https://www.thejoysofcompounding.com/ Follow Capital Alliance on Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/myca...

    53 min
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The Capital Alliance Podcast is built for fund managers navigating the path from strong returns to lasting firm. Each episode tackles what nobody talks about openly in the industry raising capital beyond your inner circle, building real operational infrastructure, getting in front of allocators who don't already know your name, and making the leap from running a fund to building an institution. Guests include fund managers, professional investors, and researchers. We dig into what actually gets allocators to write a check, how operators solve the hiring, compliance, and back-office problems that keep small teams stuck, and what separates the funds that scale from the ones that stall. We also go deep on the craft itself, investment philosophy, long-term value creation, portfolio construction, and the ideas shaping how serious capital gets deployed.

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