Patrick Houweling

Patrick Houweling is Robeco’s co-head of quant fixed income and lead portfolio manager of Robeco’s factor-based credit strategies: multi-factor credits, conservative credits and multi-factor high yield. Patrick has published seminal articles on duration times spread, factor investing in credit markets, corporate bond liquidity and credit default swaps in various academic journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and the Financial Analysts Journal. The article ‘Factor Investing in the Corporate Bond Market’ he co-authored received a Graham and Dodd Scroll Award of Excellence for 2017.

Patrick is a guest lecturer at several universities. Prior to joining Robeco in 2003, he was researcher in the risk management department at Rabobank International where he started his career in 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in finance and a Master’s (cum laude) in financial econometrics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.