Nicolas Noel M. Pauwels

Mr. Nicolas Noel M.
Pauwels, CFA MBA, is a Vice President & Portfolio Manager at Amundi Asset Management US, Inc. He joined the firm in 2006 and is responsible for managing structured fixed income securities.
He focuses on non-agency RMBS, ABS, esoteric ABS and CLO markets as well as the development of surveillance analytics and applications.
Previously, Mr. Pauwels was an ABS CDO Manager for Vanderbilt Capital Advisors, LLC.
In addition to managing RMBS securities, he also specialized in the development and implementation of Vanderbilt’s Quantitative Analytics.
In that capacity, he created the company’s proprietary risk management and surveillance applications, constructed programs to monitor eligibility criteria and collateral quality tests and modeled the CDOs underlying cash flows.
Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was a Trader at KBC Bank where he traded Eurobonds and emerging markets forwards.
He holds an MBA in analytic finance from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business (2003), a MS in Tax Management from Solvay Business School (1997), Belgium, and a MS in Applied Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1995 in Belgium.
He holds a Certificate in Quantitative Finance and is a CFA charter holder.