The private and public markets are regularly inefficient at evaluating innovation, disruption, and material fundamental change – particularly with regard to structural / permanent / secular change.
These are the keys to identify, evaluate, and exploit winners / losers to generate consistent long-term alpha.
Our “secret sauce” combines a solid base of multifaceted fundamental research, with our unique analysis of Investor Psychology and Behavioral Finance to create results that cannot be copied.
▪ Crisis Management (Mitigate worst case scenarios)
▪ Psychology – Investor Psychology + Behavioral Finance
(Improve outcomes for clients / patients, partners, employees, shareholders, leadership)
▪ Tactics, Strategy, Planning
▪ Development (Increase revenue)
▪ Optimization (Increase profit)
▪ Due Diligence (Quantitative & qualitative)
Many investment processes are strictly quantitative. All our processes are intertwined with investor psychology and behavioral finance. Thus “Who We Are” is critical to our overall process and resulting output.
Clive Anthony Correia is a graduate of The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania having earned a Bachelor of Science degree. Mr. Correia is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kadima Sun Investments (KSI) an innovation-focused investment fund built on a unique and proprietary strategy. Kadima Sun employs five distinct bottom-up analytical frameworks — Value, Growth, Economic, Technical, and Behavioral Finance. Each is executed independently in siloed processes and then synthesized to uncover high-conviction, alpha-generating investment opportunities. The fund primarily focuses on healthcare/biotech and tech/next-gen sectors, with selective exposure to fintech, consumer, and energy/alternative spaces.
Mr. Correia is also an active investor through Alumni Ventures as a Limited Partner and Venture Capital backer, and he holds a seed-stage angel investment role with the Wharton Alumni Angel Network.
Previously, Mr. Correia spent over a decade at Columbus Circle Investors (CCI), a subsidiary of Principal Financial Group (NASDAQ: PFG). At CCI, he was consistently a top performer and key alpha generator with a cross-sector innovation focus. His performance track record of consistent, long-term alpha generation directly helped drive the growth of his team, CCI’s flagship fund, from $1 Billion at his start up to $11 Billion peak assets under management (AUM) — which in turn drove growth of the overall firm from $2 Billion at his start up to $18 Billion peak AUM.
Mr. Correia started his career in Mergers and Acquisitions focused on value investing, quantitative analysis, and complex financial-modeling.
His career spans multiple investment disciplines and market environments, unified by a proven track record of generating long-term, repeatable alpha.
Clive Anthony Correia’s parents came to the United States hoping for a better life — not so much for themselves, but for their future children. Mr. Correia was the first person from his family born in the United States. At the age of 5, his father died unexpectedly, leaving his mother without nearby family, a job, or traditional career skills. From that moment, he became the “man of the house.” Starting at age 9 he began working odds jobs and through sheer determination and discipline, put himself through The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania — consistently ranked among the world’s top business schools. While a full-time student, he was a campus leader, worked multiple jobs and consistently did weekly community service at a local West Philly neighborhood soup kitchen.
Mr. Correia’s commitment to service was shaped at an early age. Shortly after his father passed away, his mother began spending her few free moments volunteering at one of Mother Teresa’s local soup kitchens in Newark, NJ — always bringing her energetic 5-year-old son along. Unexpectedly, during one of their mother-son volunteer days, Mother Teresa herself came for a supervisory visit, and they were blessed to be able to meet, work with, learn from, and receive a personal Blessing from the now Saint — leaving an indelible mark on the child.
Mr. Correia’s community service is broad in scope, while focusing on 3 primary areas:
• Feeding the poor & housing the homeless
• Education for kids in dire financial-need
• Children & Spouses of U.S. Military who lost a parent & Warriors who were injured physically, mentally, or emotionally
Mr. Correia utilizes a three-pronged approach of:
• Advocacy
• Hands-on volunteer work
• Financial contributions
Overall, starting with his mother’s staunch example and strengthened by many other personal role models, notably Mother Teresa — Mr. Correia fiercely carries out a life-long passion of using his success to help others.
From my earliest memories, I have always been inspired by the power of new ideas as a force to drive change.
Innovation, to me, is not an abstract concept but a living force that shape people’s futures. I believe small businesses and entrepreneurs are the backbone of America — driving our economy, embodying our ideals, and giving individuals a chance at something better. My own journey stands as proof that when curiosity, discipline, and purpose align, innovation is a key that unlocks opportunities that elevate not just an individual or a company, but entire communities.
This conviction has guided me through decades of investing across healthcare, technology, energy, finance, and consumer sectors. Whether evaluating next-generation technologies, biotechs, medical devices, alternative energy platforms, or breakthrough digital and financial technologies, I have sought to identify and nurture the ideas capable of creating real, lasting change. I bring this passion to both public and private markets — at home in the U.S. and across the globe — because transformational innovation knows no borders.
What sets my research, analysis and investment approach apart is recognizing that markets are powered as much by people as by numbers. Drawing on my challenging upbringing, my formal training at Wharton, and decades of investing experience, I’ve built a discipline around behavioral finance and investor psychology — understanding how investors think, how founders behave under pressure, and how biases, incentives, and narratives shape outcomes. By analyzing not only the fundamentals but also the human factors behind them, I strive to see risks and opportunities others might overlook. This blend of insight into innovation and insight into people is my “secret sauce.”
For me, financial success has never been an end in itself. It carries an obligation to give back. Long before “impact investing” became a buzzword, I made a personal pledge that any gains achieved through my work would help build stronger, healthier communities. At Kadima Sun, minimum 1% of the general partner’s annual net profits — never client funds — are directed each year to charitable causes that benefit wide swaths of society in our nation and globally.
This is not a marketing exercise; it is a built-in principle that reflects how I view leadership and stewardship of capital. Those who have partnered with me — entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofit leaders — know that this is more than a philanthropic checkmark. It is a lived principle. I take the same rigor, research, and long-term perspective that I apply to investing and bring it to charitable giving, seeking out efforts with proven impact, strong governance, and the ability to scale their good work.
Ultimately, everything I do — including mentoring founders, established management and global business leaders, funding disruptive ideas, or directing profits to critical causes — all flows from a single aim: to harness the power of innovation and capital for enduring, positive impact.
At Kadima Sun, this means not just seeking alpha, but seeking alignment between financial success and societal progress. That alignment, in my view, is the true measure of a life’s work.
This passion makes investing more than just work a job it is part of my life’s passion driving maximum effort.
Generating positive financial results allows us to combine our passion for finance and helping others to make a broader impact by supporting many organizations including the following:
Soup Kitchens & Homeless Shelters
Saint Mother Theresa’s Soup Kitchens via Missionaries of Charity
▪ Pacific House Shelter
▪ New Covenant Center
▪ St. Joseph’s Social Services Center
▪ University City Hospitality Coalition
▪ Community FoodBank of NJ
U.S. Military – Injured Veterans & Families Who Lost a Parent/Spouse
▪ Stop Soldier Suicide
▪ Wounded Warrior Project
▪ Lone Survivor Foundation (Operation Red Wings)
▪ Navy SEAL Foundation
▪ Annual Memorial for Navy SEAL Lt Michael Murphy (KIA Killed-In-Action)
▪ Semper Fi Fund
▪ Special Operations Warrior Foundation
Firefighters & September 11th (9/11)
▪ Tunnel to Towers Foundation
▪ National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Poverty Alleviation & Education
▪ Kiva — Correia
▪ Kiva — Principal Financial Group (Nasdaq: PFG) — Global Team
▪ Families In Transition
▪ Inroads
▪ Harlem Academy
▪ Boys Hope Girls Hope
▪ Families In Transition
▪ Principal Financial Group (Nasdaq: PFG) — Principal Foundation
Scholarships & Endowments – primarily to students in dire financial need
▪ UPenn Endowment Fund
▪ PKP Scholarship Endowment
▪ PKP (Correia) Scholarship Endowment
▪ AKPsi (Correia) Scholarship Endowment #1 — Wharton/UPenn
▪ AKPsi (Correia) Scholarship Endowment #2 — Global (250+ schools worldwide)
▪ Wharton Endowment Fund
▪ AKPsi Scholarship Endowment
Americans With Disabilities
▪ Westchester Disabled On the Move, Inc.
Safety
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
▪ Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
▪ National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
▪ National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Health
▪ American Diabetes Association
▪ American Heart Association
▪ American Cancer Society
▪ American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
▪ American Red Cross