Andrew Trower

Andrew Trower is a co-founder of Altus Investment Management Limited, which he established in London in 2003 (co-founders cited across sources include Patrick de Vink and Neil Smith). He serves as the firm's Executive Chairman, having also been described in various records as its Chief Executive Officer. Altus is an FCA-regulated investment manager headquartered at 24 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QN, providing discretionary portfolio management and advice to individuals, families and foundations, with a specialist emphasis on alternative investments and an "unconstrained" approach to asset allocation.

Before founding Altus, Trower built a career as an institutional fund manager. He spent roughly nine years at Schroders before moving to Gartmore, where he was a senior fund manager responsible for US investments and gained experience running long/short US equity hedge funds. This US-markets and alternatives background remains the intellectual core of Altus's investment style, which targets market-agnostic ("residual") returns, downside protection and factor diversification. He was educated at Stetson University (Florida) in the mid-1980s (c. 1982–1986).

According to UK Companies House, Andrew Peter Trower (born May 1963, British) has held a range of directorships tied to the Altus group, including Altus Investment Management Limited (04940982), Altus Nominees Limited and Altus IM Nominees Limited — from all of which he is recorded as having resigned on 19 December 2024. He remains a director of Executive Management Solutions (UK) Limited and has had past associations with entities such as Corham Investment Management LLP and Altus Concierge Limited (now dissolved). The December 2024 resignations may reflect an internal restructuring; the firm's website continued to list him as Executive Chairman as of this research.

• Invests as a discretionary wealth/asset manager, not as an angel — building portfolios for individuals, families and foundations rather than backing founders.
• Alternatives specialism: the firm emphasizes alternative investments and an "unconstrained" approach to asset allocation, seeking returns independent of traditional market factors.
• Stated firm objectives: outperformance through market-agnostic strategies, downside protection, and factor diversification — pursuing "residual" returns.
• Trower's personal edge is US equities and long/short hedge-fund strategies, reflecting his time managing US investments at Gartmore and earlier at Schroders.