Paul Benson, CFA, CAIA

Paul Benson, CFA, CAIA

Head of Systematic Fixed Income, Insight Investment

Paul has 30 years of experience in the investment industry. He joined BNY Investments affiliate Mellon Investments in 2005 and has been Head of the Systematic Fixed Income Team since 2015. In September 2021, Mellon Investments’ fixed income strategies, including the Systematic Fixed Income Team, formally joined Insight. Based in San Francisco, Paul and his team of portfolio managers, researchers and traders pioneered the development of highly implementable systematic fixed income strategies by combining innovative model-driven alpha research with cutting-edge trading technology.

Before becoming Head of the Systematic Fixed Income Team, Paul was a senior portfolio manager responsible for the yield curve arbitrage strategy within global asset allocation portfolios. Additionally, he engineered and built the process to automate fixed income portfolio rebalancing and improve operational risk control.

Prior to joining Mellon Investments, Paul was a senior fixed income portfolio associate at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), where he analyzed, implemented and managed active U.S. and global fixed income portfolios. Previously, he was a trader at Westdeutsche Landesbank Tokyo, where he built the interest rate swaps trading desk, and a trader at Bankers Trust Tokyo, where he ran the Japanese government bond book. Both positions included market making and proprietary trading.

Paul received a BA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute.

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