Valiant Research LLC, an independent research firm specializing in the Consumer and Retail sectors, has officially launched under the leadership of Gregory J. Blotnick. The firm aims to close the gap between institutional-grade market intelligence and the underserved community of individual investors.
Blotnick, a veteran portfolio manager, previously led Brattle Street Capital, a New York-based hedge fund he founded after working at Citadel LLC, one of the largest and most influential hedge funds in the world. With Valiant Research, Blotnick’s mission is clear: equip individual investors with the same level of analytical rigor and risk management strategies used by professional money managers.
While Valiant’s research is also available to institutional clients, Blotnick sees the firm’s real value in serving individual investors — a group he believes has long been overlooked by the financial industry.
Blotnick’s own background provides the foundation for Valiant’s approach. After earning his degree from Lehigh University, he began his investment career at Doubloon Capital, a hedge fund founded by Pirate Capital’s Tom Hudson. He later joined Exis Capital, founded by Adam Sender, before earning his MBA at Columbia Business School. In 2017, Blotnick was recruited by Citadel to specialize in the Consumer and Retail sectors as part of a five-person team managing over $1 billion in gross exposure.
Despite his extensive Wall Street experience, Blotnick is outspoken in his criticism of the industry’s traditional financial advisory model.
“In my view, 99% of the financial services world exists to extract value from retail investors, not create it,” he said. “Advisors charge clients on the front end with direct fees and again on the back end through high-cost products that often underperform. Many of these products are sold not because they’re in the client’s best interest, but because the advisor gets paid to sell them.”
Valiant Research, he says, is designed to flip that model on its head. Rather than offering one-off stock picks or overpromising on performance, the firm focuses on long-term investor education. The goal is to help clients build a durable, repeatable investment process grounded in discipline, patience, and humility — the three pillars of Valiant’s philosophy.
“We’re here to help people become truly independent investors,” Blotnick said. “Not just better informed, but better equipped to make their own decisions.”
For more information or to access the latest research, visit us at valiantlp.com.
