Wikipedia Draft:Adrian F. Lee

Adrian Francis Lee (born December 31, 1955) Adrian F. Lee is President and Chief Investment Officer of Adrian & Lee Partners where he leads and overseas the firm’s provision of active currency and global asset strategies to institutional investors. Mr. Lee founded the firm in 1999, and under his leadership it has become a leading active currency and fixed income asset manager with over $14 billion of assets under management (as of September 2019). Mr. Lee was responsible for much of the industry’s original research and development in active currency management in the 1980’s and is recognized globally as one of the founders of active currency overlay approach.

Education
Mr. Lee holds an MA in Mathematical Economics & Statistics from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA in Finance & Actuarial Science from the Wharton School.

Career
Mr. Lee is President and Chief Investment Officer of Adrian Lee & Partners, which he founded in 1999. The firm is a leading provider of active currency management for institutional investors across the USA, Europe and Australia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lee was Managing Director of JP Morgan Investment Management’s Currency Overlay group, where he was responsible for developing and managing currency overlay programs. Before joining JP Morgan, he worked for Winklevoss and Associates in Philadelphia and as a lecturer in Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications
Mr. Lee is the author of several publications on currency hedging and global asset allocation and his original work earned him the International Quantitative Group prize for outstanding research. Mr. Lee’s publications include:
 * The Euro – Implications for Currency Management; Currency Risk in Investment Portfolios; AIMR; 1999.
 * Currency in International Investing; Strategic Currency Investing – Trading and Hedging in the Foreign Exchange Market; Probus Professional Pub; 1993.
 * International Asset and Currency Allocation; Active Asset Allocation: State-Of-The-Art Portfolio Policies, Strategies & Tactics; Institutional Investor Publication, 1992.
 * International Asset and Currency Allocation; Asset Allocation – a Handbook of Portfolio Policies, Strategies & Tactics; McGraw-Hill Companies, 1988.
 * Asset and Currency Allocation, and Optimal Currency Hedging Strategies; The Handbook of International Investing; Probus Publishing Co; 1987.

Sporting Achievements
Mr. Lee is passionate about offshore yacht racing. He and his team have won numerous races including the Inaugural 2009 Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 and the Inaugural Guadeloupe to Antigua race. He also broke the course record when racing in the Dubai to Muscat event in 2013.

His offshore racing achievements include:
 * Winner of the Antigua Sailing Week Class 3, 2019.
 * Winner of the 2017 Guadeloupe To Antigua Race.
 * Winner of the IRC Racing Division in the 2013 Dubai to Muscat Race.
 * Winner of the 2010 Antigua Sailing Week, Ocean Series.
 * Winner of the Inaugural 2009 Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 race.

In addition, Mr. Lee is a member of the British Fencing Association. He has participated in competitions including the Commonwealth Veterans Fencing Championships and the World Veterans Fencing Championships in the Foil category and has represented Ireland at a Senior and Veteran level in fencing on numerous occasions.

Philanthropy
Mr. Lee is a founding patron of the Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He has made donations to the Irish Olympics Sailing Team, Clongowes Wood College and Pembroke Fencing Club.