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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Eric Williams | Portfolio Manager | 2025 | Now |
Biography | Eric Williams is a portfolio manager on the Full Discretion Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages a suite of high yield and bank loan strategies. Eric has 14 years of investment industry experience. Eric joined Loomis Sayles in 2025 from Northern Trust Asset Management where he most recently served as the head of capital structure and a senior portfolio manager on the global fixed income team. In this role, he had broad oversight of the actively-managed leveraged credit platform and served as the lead portfolio manager on several leveraged credit strategies. Previously, Eric was the head of credit at Northern Trust and a senior portfolio manager for fundamental, systematic and global high yield and ESG mandates. Prior to this, he was a portfolio manager and trader, working with research analysts to evaluate fundamental risk exposures, with a focus on valuation and volatility. Earlier in his career, Eric was a portfolio analyst and associate portfolio manager. Eric earned a BA in economics from the University of Colorado and an MBA with a concentration in finance and economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. | ||
Peter Sheehan | - | 2023 | Now |
Biography | Peter Sheehan is a co-portfolio manager on the full discretion team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages the team's suite of high yield strategies. Additionally, Peter is a credit strategist focused on the bottom-up security selection process for the full discretion team. Working in concert with the senior research analysts, he oversees the underwriting and investment recommendation of the team’s largest active weight positions. Peter joined Loomis Sayles in 2012 from the MBA program at Boston College. Previously, he was an associate at CapX Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, specializing in lower middle market and stressed credit investing. Peter began his investment industry career in the credit training program at Bank of America/LaSalle Bank. He earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. | ||
Brian P. Kennedy | Senior fund accountant | 2019 | Now |
Biography | Brian started his investment industry career in 1990 as a senior fund accountant at the Boston Company. He joined Loomis Sayles in 1994 as a securitized and government bond trader, and transitioned to the high-yield trading desk in 2001, where he initiated Loomis Sayles’ trading of bank loans, while also trading high yield, convertibles, derivatives and equities. Brian joined the Loomis Sayles full discretion investment team as product manager in 2009. | ||
Matthew J. Eagan | Executive Vice President | 2004 | Now |
Biography | Matt has 30 years of experience as a portfolio manager and fixed-income analyst. He is co-portfolio manager for a number of Loomis Sayles’ institutional and retail funds and serves as a member of the firm’s board of directors. Matt joined Loomis Sayles in 1997 as a research analyst for the multisector fixed-income team. Prior to Loomis Sayles, he was a senior fixed-income analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and a senior credit analyst at BancBoston Financial Company. Matt earned a BA from Northeastern University and an MBA from Boston University. | ||
Todd P. Vandam | Portfolio Manager | 2019 | 2025 |
Biography | Todd Vandam is a co-portfolio manager on the full discretion team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages a suite of high yield products, strategic alpha products and is the leader of the firm’s high yield sector team. Todd has 29 years of investment industry experience. Todd joined Loomis Sayles in 1994 as a member of the high yield trading desk and later became an investment strategist for the full discretion team. He was promoted to co-portfolio manager in 2009. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles, Todd completed the US Army Airborne and US Army Ranger Schools. He was a Field Artillery Officer in the US Army, most recently working as a Fire Support Officer stationed in Panama. He earned a BA from Brown University. Todd is the founder of Valor, Loomis Sayles' veteran and military familiesfocused employee resource group. He is actively involved in the Loomis Sayles Undergraduate Women’s Investment Network (UWIN) and Undergraduate Summer Internship Development (USID) Program as a mentor, as well as the firm’s internal mentorship program. Todd is a member of CFA Society Boston. | ||
Elaine M. Stokes | Executive Vice President | 2004 | 2023 |
Biography | Elaine M. Stokes joined Loomis Sayles in 1988 and is a Director, Portfolio Manager and Co‑Head of the full discretion team. She has 33 years of investment industry experience. She is also a Co‑Portfolio Manager of the Loomis Sayles Strategic Alpha Fund and other fixed income funds managed by Loomis Sayles. Prior to becoming a Portfolio Manager in 2000, she had experience working in high yield, global and emerging markets. She has served as a senior fixed income trader and portfolio specialist. She earned a BS from St. Michael’s College. | ||
Daniel J. Fuss | Executive Vice President | 2004 | 2021 |
Biography | Dan Fuss has 65 years of experience in the investment industry and has been with Loomis, Sayles & Company since 1976. He is vice chairman of the firm’s Board of Directors and a senior advisor to the full discretion team. In 2019, Dan was awarded the Outstanding Portfolio Manager Award at the US Morningstar Awards for Investing Excellence. In 2012, he received both the Institutional Investor Money Management Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lipper Excellence in Investing Award. In 2013, Dan received the CFA Society of Milwaukee Lifetime Achievement Award. | ||
Kathleen C. Gaffney | Vice President | 2004 | 2012 |
Biography | Ms. Gaffney has been at Eaton Vance and BMR since October 2012. Prior to joining Eaton Vance in 2012, she was a vice president and portfolio manager at Loomis, Sayles & Company. Ms. Gaffney began her career at Loomis Sayles in 1984. From 1992 to 2012, she served as Vice President and Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. From 1988 - 1992 she held served as Vice President and Fixed Income Trader. From 1984 to 1988 she served as a Fixed Income and Equity Trader. Ms. Gaffney holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst. She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has been with the investment industry since 1984. |
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