Robert Christian

Robert Christian is a senior vice president and head of Absolute Return Portfolio Management at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, an Executive Committee member, chairperson of the Investment Committee, and acts as a portfolio manager.

He joined K2 Advisors, an alternative investment firm that merged with Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions in 2024.

From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Christian worked as a global strategist and proprietary trader at Chase Manhattan Futures Corporation. In 1995, he founded Modoc Capital focusing on short-term futures trading. In 1997 Modoc entered into a joint venture with Stonebrook Capital Management LLC as a portfolio manager and researcher. From 1998 to 2003 Mr. Christian worked at Graham Capital Management LP as a portfolio manager and researcher of quantitative based trading strategies. From 2003 to 2005 he was the head of macro strategies at Julius Baer Investment Management. From September 2005 to March 2010, he worked at FRM Americas LLC where he was the global head of directional trading strategies and portfolio advisor to numerous funds, including the award winning FRM Sigma.

Mr. Christian holds a B.A.S. degree in biology and economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. in finance from Leonard N. Stern School of Business - New York University. In the summer of 2020, Mr. Christian completed a professional certificate in Foundations for Data Science at Stanford University.