Sven Helsen

Sven Helsen

Senior Portfolio Manager

Bio
Sven Helsen has been a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Multi-Asset/Target Allocation team since December 2019. He joined FFTW, a predecessor of BNP Paribas Asset Management, in 2015 as a Senior Portfolio Manager and member of the Rates Committee with a mandate for generating alpha ideas within the rates markets, with a specific focus on derivatives strategies.
Prior to joining us, Sven was a Senior Counterparty Risk Trader in the Global Markets division of BNP Paribas in London. From 1998 to 2010, he successfully set up and ran the US Inflation and Balance-Guaranteed Swap trading desks at BNP Paribas Securities Corp. in New York. Sven has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics and an MBA from the University of Leuven, Belgium, as well as an MSc in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University (USA).
Sven is based in London.

Location London

Joined 2015

Articles from Sven Helsen

Article

Portfolio perspectives

Navigating the new investment reality with multi-asset portfolios

Traditional multi-asset investment products have fallen out of favour since Covid and the end of the low-yield era after the…

By Sven Helsen

11/09/25
Article
Hurricanes cyclone from space

Portfolio perspectives

Real frustration: The surprising fall in real yields

The decline in US real (inflation-adjusted) yields over the last five months has frustrated many investors who had counted on…

By Daniel Morris & other authors

10/09/21
Article
Businesswomen walking by tables and chairs

Portfolio perspectives

Hedging against inflation: Do you really understand inflation-linked bonds?

US inflation expectations have risen over the last year, and with the passage of an additional USD 1.9 trillion stimulus…

By Sven Helsen

12/03/21
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