Benjamin Kelly

Dr Benjamin Kelly is Managing Director and Founder of CastleCliff – a behavioural finance and decision making consultancy. Benjamin works with asset managers, hedge funds, official institutions and banks to understand and identify investment biases in their investment processes. Following the detection stage, strategies are developed to ensure these biases are removed from the process completely.

Prior to CastleCliff, Benjamin worked for BlackRock as a global investment strategist within the firm’s knowledge sharing/think tank capability – the BlackRock Investment Institute. In this role Dr Kelly, worked with portfolio managers on formulating the firm’s global outlook in addition to consulting on behavioural biases within investment processes.

Currently, Dr Kelly is a contributing lecturer on a Masters’ behavioural finance course at Warwick Business School.

Benjamin earned a BSc honours degree in chemistry, a MLitt in economics and international relations and a PhD in economics all from the University of St Andrews.