Robert Hayes is managing director and head of fund manager BlackRock’s strategic advice and solutions team. He mainly works on advising and educating institutional investors on investment strategies, with a particular focus on liability-driven investment.

He initially joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2001 as a relationship manager for large institutional clients, which merged in 2006 with BlackRock. Previously he was a partner with Watson Wyatt Partners, UK Equity Investment Manager at ICI Pension Fund, and head of institutional investment at M&G Investment Management.