Overview

Our quantitative hedge fund (Aka The Cakeshop Capital) is a behavioral finance research-based investment firm. We focus on delivering market-neutral returns with a quantitative long-short equity strategy providing investors with unique, uncorrelated alpha across market cycles. We provide long-short U.S. equity returns. We have a private credit vehicle transacting in loans for investors. We also provide a small, emerging private equity arm that makes select investments in private companies.

The behavioral finance research behind the our investment strategies began in 2005. The hedge fund was started in 2020 and launched in 2021. Our team has pioneered various techniques that are today being used as established methods amongst funds worldwide.

A Research-Driven Team

  • All team members work remotely and embrace the numerous advantages of it, especially efficiency and flexibility. The interns will work remotely and have weekly online meetings with the CEO.

  • PD Cap LLC (a.k.a The Cake Shop Capital) does not have an additional website domain name. The reason is that our firm works with investors and institutes that require other professional forms of presentation. Many successful hedge funds do not maintain a website for the same reason. Our co-founders are prestigious experts from both the higher-ed academia and the finance industry. Other websites with a similar name do not have any association with us.
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thecakeshopcapital

  • Dr. Lauren H. Cohen (Harvard Business School)

    Dr. William A. Powley (Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School; SM and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

    David Kim (MA in Statistics from Harvard University)

    Nicolas L. Gaviria (Investor at BlackRock Private Equity Partners, BA from Brown University)

  • We strictly prevent uninvited solicitation. We require partnership organizations and students to not solicit any faculty and workers at our hedge fund. We don’t form exclusive partnerships with any organizations. All communication should go through the required communication channels (email).

    No portion of information on this website may be reproduced, copied, distributed, modified or made available to others.

  • U.S. Large Cap equities only (~$3B+ market cap)

    The Firm does not define risk management by volatility, VAR, or any single statistical measure.