Meena Lakshmanan

Meena is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer. She has over 20 years’ investment experience working across a range of institutional and private client business. She started her investment career as a hedge fund analyst, managing a global fund of hedge funds at Atlas Capital Limited. She moved on to a quantitative research role for Russell Investments, where she published papers on alpha generation and risk management for the equity and hedge fund teams. At GLG Partners she was an asset manager working on the allocation of GLG’s European long/short equity fund.

Meena was instrumental in building the investment process at LGT Wealth Management (UK). Whilst at LGT Wealth Management (UK), she was a key contributor to the investment committee and a member of the product and risk committees. Meena has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge specialising in Operations research, which has been a very useful background to her interest in portfolio construction and risk evaluation.