Altana Wealth, the new investment firm formed by Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, has hired Alex Krainer as portfolio manager to launch the Altana Inflation Trends Fund – a systematic trend-following strategy that aims to protect investor capital by profiting from expected large-scale dislocations in commodities and financial markets.
Altana Inflation Trends is the second fund launched by Altana – in addition to the Altana Sovereign Diversity Fund – and is seeded with $10 million from Robinson. It will focus on investing in around 30 financial and commodity futures markets likely to be most affected by inflation and/or deflation events –...