24-Year-Old "Wall Street Newcomer" Portfolio Adjustments Revealed: Shorts Chips Heavily in Q1, Bullish on Energy and AI Infrastructure
A 24-year-old Wall Street prodigy, Leopold Aschenbrenner, has disclosed the Q1 portfolio adjustments for his fund, Situational Awareness LP. The fund's assets under management skyrocketed from $5.52 billion to $13.7 billion.
The most significant move was a massive bearish bet on the semiconductor sector. The fund established $8.46 billion in put options, targeting chipmakers like NVIDIA ($1.6B in puts) and the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH, $2B in puts). This bearish stance extended to Broadcom, Oracle, AMD, Micron, ASML, Intel, Corning, and TSMC. However, the fund made a selective bullish exception, adding shares and call options for memory chip maker SanDisk.
The fund maintained its core bullish thesis on energy and AI infrastructure. Bloom Energy remained its largest long equity holding. It also increased stakes in cryptocurrency mining/data center firms like CleanSpark, Riot Platforms, Applied Digital, and IREN Limited, viewing them as providers of critical ready-to-use infrastructure—land, power, and grid permits—for AI expansion.
The 13F filing was submitted one day late. Overall, the fund's strategy involves substantial bearish semiconductor bets while maintaining concentrated, high-volatility investments in selective tech, computing, and infrastructure plays aligned with AI growth.
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