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Why AI Won't Replace Stock Pickers - Jack Woodruff, Candlestick & Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler

Why AI Won't Replace Stock Pickers - Jack Woodruff, Candlestick & Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler

Jack Woodruff, founder and former CIO of Candlestick Capital and former Citadel portfolio manager, talks with Kepler CEO Vinoo Ganesh about what AI actually changes in fundamental investing. The conversation covers why humans remain the bottleneck, how AI compresses hours of prep into minutes and raises the baseline for analysts, why auditability matters more than speed, where edge comes from when every fund has the same tools, how fund teams may be restructured, and why a no-analyst hedge fund is unlikely to beat the best human-led funds.