Lee Robinson is the founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Altana Wealth. He has over 30 years of experience working in the financial markets and has generated over £1 billion gross profit for his investors.

Lee founded Altana in 2009 with the vision of building a firm around his expertise that was able to uncover specialist, often overlooked or disregarded opportunities, leverage deep analytical capabilities to assess potential outcomes, and time trades to deliver alpha.

Recognising what Lee felt was a serious issue in the fund management industry – that fund managers were largely misaligned with their investors – and seeing that this presented an opportunity to build out the business, he opened Altana to external co-investors in 2011.

Altana invests meaningfully in its funds from the start and maintains a focus on investment performance over management fees, keeping the firm one hundred per cent aligned with its co-investors.

In 2001 Lee co-founded Trafalgar Asset Managers where he was CIO of the Trafalgar Catalyst Fund and the Trafalgar Special Situations Fund. After launching with $6 million Trafalgar grew its AUM to over $3 billion, employing over 40 staff and winning multiple industry awards and nominations.

Prior to Trafalgar Lee spent three years at Tudor Capital as a senior manager, building a global equity risk arbitrage portfolio and developing a risk system he later brought to Trafalgar. He anticipated the credit crisis of 2007 to 2009 and the subsequent sovereign stresses, and traded profitably through 2008, including positions that hedged the deterioration of the financial system, the Iceland default, sub-prime mortgages and the weakening of European banks.

Earlier in his career he traded equity and credit derivatives at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and BNP Paribas.

Lee holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and is co-author of The Gathering Storm.

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