Samed Bouaynaya

Portfolio Manager Altana Wealth

Samed is responsible for the strategy selection and portfolio management of the Systematic Digital Assets fund (ASDF). Samed has been seeding Blockchain projects since late 2017 in Layer 1 blockchains, their scalability solutions (Layer 2’s and rollups), Interoperability and Decentralised Finance. He joined Altana in February 2014 as the firm’s quantitative analyst and risk manager. He ran Altana’s quant team for four years, supporting the firm’s discretionary and systematic strategies from idea generation, backtesting and execution before moving into managing a systematic equity fund in 2018. Before Altana, Samed has had nine years sell-side experience in structured products quantitative analysis, pricing and risk oversight across Equity and Credit. He was a Derivatives Trading Analyst at SocGen Investment Bank, a Credit Quant Analyst at JP Morgan and an Associate Director at RBC Capital Markets. Samed is a Director of Altana UCITS Funds and a CFA charter holder. He holds an MSc. in Financial and Mathematical Engineering from Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne, Switzerland and an MSc in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from ENISMAG in France.