Robert John Timothy Hillman

Dr. Robert J.
Hillman is a Chief Investment Officer at Neuron Advisers LLP.
He is responsible for all aspects of research, strategy design and management.
He specializes in combining computational economics with statistical techniques to build trading and risk management strategies.
He joined Neuron Advisers to manage quantitative strategies in 2015.
In 2000, Dr. Hillman joined the Bank of England where he explored the market impact of option hedging and systematic strategies.
He also learnt a lot about the importance of optimal execution strategies when the UK Treasury sold a lot of gold.
Since 2003, he has created and managed systematic global macro trading models and teams within hedge funds, initially as Head of Research at London Diversified Fund Management (‘LDFM’) and then at BH-DG Systematic Trading, where he helped establish and subsequently run the systematic trading portfolio until 2014.
His experience covers many asset classes and products with a fond interest in options and RV type trades.
He holds an MSc (University of London) and Ph.D.
(University of Southampton) in Economics .