In The News - The Hedge Fund Journal - Altana Augments Strategy Range

Ramping up with credit UCITS imminent, Bitcoin vehicle possible

by Hamlin Lovell

Spin-outs of star managers from established hedge funds have to be doing something different to pique our interest sufficiently to warrant a feature. Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth cut the mustard back in September 2011, when we last profiled the group, and his team’s world views today remain as refreshingly straight-talking as ever.

Altana has so far added three strategies to complement Robinson’s own fund, with at least two more in the pipeline. Volatility targets range from single-digit to definitely double-digit, but investors can always be confident that their interests are aligned with Robinson as he has seeded all of the strategies – and also keeps a vigilant grip on operational risks to match his own exacting requirements.

Altana funds always target real absolute returns and are inspired by different recent threats to real returns, including concern about currency debasement, which is one motive for the possible launch of a fund offering accredited investors secure and insured access to Bitcoins. Fiat currency frailty, palpable inflation, and the sovereign debt crisis are all intertwined worries for Altana, without forgetting the good old-fashioned event, credit and equity analysis that made Robinson’s name at Trafalgar before and during the global credit crisis.

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