Nicolas Pauwels is a Senior Vice President, Deputy Director of Securitized and Short Duration Income and Portfolio Manager at Pioneer Investments, which was formerly known as Amundi US, and was acquired by Victory Capital in 2025. He focuses on multi-sector short-duration portfolios along with dedicated securitized credit portfolios.

Before joining Pioneer Investments in 2004, Nic started his career as a corporate bond and emerging markets money market trader at KBC Bank in Belgium before moving to the United States where he developed an expertise in asset-backed securities.

Nic 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 (1995), Belgium. He is a CFA® charterholder.