Landon D. Whaley: Full Professional Biography

Landon D. Whaley is a writer, portfolio manager, and macroeconomic strategist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and investment analysis. He is launching an AI investing newsletter that teaches individual investors and financial professionals how to apply AI tools to the financial markets. He is also a fiction writer whose debut novel, Lucien Cash and the Shadow Hand, is forthcoming.

Financial Career

Landon D. Whaley spent more than twenty years as a portfolio manager, macroeconomic strategist, and investment advisor, building expertise across multiple complete market cycles, from managing non-discretionary client portfolios early in his career to eventually running a global macro hedge fund and separately managed accounts. For most of that time, he published. Every week, without interruption, for 458 consecutive weeks, nearly nine years, he wrote approximately 4,000 words of financial market research: market commentary, portfolio ideas and construction, and global economic analysis. That discipline is the foundation of everything he’s building now. His work in financial services gave him direct experience with how institutional and independent advisors approach investment research, an experience he now applies to evaluating and teaching the AI tools that are reshaping how that research gets done.

AI Investing Newsletter

Landon D. Whaley is launching an AI investing newsletter for individual investors and financial professionals seeking to apply AI tools to rigorous financial research and decision-making. The analytical frameworks of institutional portfolio managers are now accessible to anyone who knows how to use the right tools. He is building the bridge between those tools and that institutional-grade thinking.

Fiction

Landon D. Whaley's debut novel, Lucien Cash and the Shadow Hand, is a heist thriller set in the art world. The book introduces Lucien Cash, a gentleman thief operating at the intersection of high art, law enforcement, and secret societies. Future projects include additional work in the thriller fiction genre.

Education

University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, MBA