“It’s a meritocracy – you’re encouraged to come up with ideas. If you do, they will be listened to. It’s entrepreneurial in that sense. At my previous workplace, we weren’t necessarily encouraged to pursue all profit-generating opportunities and it was less ideas-based.” Intern in 2017, worked for Altana as analyst and PM until 2023. Now PM at institutional asset manager

“Before my internship, I was set on going into research, but the experience changed my mindset and led me into portfolio management. Altana is one of the few places where you can be taught how to be a PM. It contrasts with larger firms in that they will assign tasks and projects with much narrower scopes. The flexibility is the best thing about Altana.”

“Coming from a large bank and working in a specific team, joining Altana gave me a much wider view in terms of the many components that go into Asset Management, not only from a strategy perspective, but also from regulatory, client relations, sales, operations, finance, and risk management perspectives.”

“It was the best professional experience of my life. I had the opportunity to speak numerous times with the founder and CIO, Lee Robinson, which was great. The internship programme opened my eyes to the financial world in a way that you can’t anywhere else.”

“It was a good internship. I worked on a range of different projects: marketing, HR,
portfolio management, and research. You get a taste of everything.”

“I noticed that at Altana I could speak up and people really listened to you — I felt more valued at Altana. At my previous workplace, the hierarchy was more structured and rigid, so you had to fight for your place.”