Dr Richard Bateson

Dr Richard Bateson is founder and Chief Executive Officer of is Bateson Asset Management ('BAM'). A boutique investment management company specialising in quantitative investing. BAM is located in London and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

BAM was established late in 2016 to specialise in AI and Machine Learning strategies exploiting alternative data sources. The company invests in equity, currency and bond markets using cash and derivatives and acts as an advisor and consultant to funds and managed accounts for professional and institutional investors.

Dr Bateson is the former Head of Man AHL's Dimension fund (approx.  $5bn AUM) and has held senior roles in several major funds and investment banks including as Managing Director at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). 

He is an industry expert in AI and alternative data in financial markets, and hosts panels and is an invited speaker at major conferences in London and Europe. Dr Bateson was a Research Committee member of the Oxford-Man Institute of quantitative finance at Oxford University.

Dr Bateson is currently Visiting Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University and has worked at has worked at several leading European physics laboratories, including CERN.  He holds a first-class degree and a doctorate in Physics from Cambridge University.

Since 2017 Dr Bateson has been engaged as an expert witness on legal cases in the UK and US involving AI /systematic trading, hedge funds, investment banking and financial markets. Notable successful public cases include;
(i) Bridgewater Associates v. Tekmerion (Minicone and Squire) for alleged misappropriation and misuse of proprietary investment technologies,
(ii) the UKs first major case involving AI/machine learning which featured as one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2020,
(iii) AlphaSharp Limited v. ADG Capital Management LLP involving hedge fund IP and associated quantum,
(iv)CG v. DL valuation of award-winning hedge fund for divorce settlement in family court.

He is the author of two financial books “Quantitative Hedge Funds” (WSP 2022) and “Financial Derivative Investments” (Imperial College Press 2011).

FCA regulated investment manager