Rob Cummings

Mr. Robert Cummings is a Principal & Senior Director at Milliman Financial Risk Management LLC.
He works for the Portfolio Management Group within Milliman’s Financial Risk Management (FRM) practice in Chicago.
FRM advises clients in banking, insurance, and funds management on financial risks, portfolio management, hedging strategies, and trading operations.
He is the senior portfolio manager on the team and is involved in the management of exchange trade funds, mutual funds, variable insurance trusts, unit investment trusts, and separately managed accounts.
He has also worked on the risk management of variable annuity, fixed indexed annuity, managed risk fund overlays, and other derivative hedging programs of both U.S.
and international clients.
He has more than 25 years of experience as a trader and risk manager with a primary focus on options.
Prior to joining Milliman, he was involved in various proprietary trading strategies and was portfolio manager of associated derivatives funds.
These strategies included volatility arbitrage, global macro, and high-frequency trading.
Firms that he worked for include Citadel Investment Group; TradeNet, where he was a primary market maker on the CBOE; KCM Group; and Spyglass Capital Management.
He received his undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.