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Paul Hilton | Equity Research Director | Nixon Peabody Trust Company

Paul Hilton, CFA

Equity Research Director

Office: +1 617.345.1066
philton@nixonpeabody.com

Exchange Place
53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109-2835

“Guided by a commitment to excellence, I leverage my extensive experience in equity research to empower clients with informed investment strategies, working to identify the best managed companies with differentiated business models positioned to deliver long-term investment performance.”

Paul Hilton serves as Equity Research Director. He brings over 25 years of experience in portfolio management and equity research. Prior to joining Nixon Peabody Trust Company, Paul worked as Portfolio Manager at Trillium Asset Management where he served as Lead Portfolio Manager on the Sustainable Opportunities strategy, a thematic ESG portfolio. He also spent time with Calvert Investments in marketing, business strategy, and equities roles, most recently as Vice President, Sustainable Investment Business Strategy. Paul was Portfolio Manager for Socially Responsible Investing at The Dreyfus Corporation. At Dreyfus, he was responsible for social research and advocacy for the Dreyfus Premier Third Century Fund and its variable annuity counterpart, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund. He also served as a research analyst in the Social Awareness Investment program at Smith Barney Asset Management, then a division of Citigroup.

Paul started his career in the field of SRI as an analyst with the Council on Economic Priorities, a nonprofit known for an influential consumer guidebook called Shopping for a Better World. Paul is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of Boston. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Heller School at Brandeis University where he teaches a course on Impact Investing. He is also a former board chair of USSIF, the member association for sustainable and impact investors.

Education

  • Roberts Wesleyan College, MED

  • New York University, MA, Cultural Anthropology

  • Syracuse University, BA