Kevin Kearns is a portfolio manager and head of the alpha strategies group at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages the Loomis Sayles multi-asset credit and income strategies and custom strategies, as well as the Loomis Sayles Inflation Protected Securities Fund. Kevin has 37 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2007. Previously, he was director of derivatives, quantitative analysis and risk management at Boldwater Capital Management where he was responsible for development and implementation of a credit-focused relative value hedge fund. Kevin managed derivative based strategies focused on capital structure arbitrage, event driven and relative value strategies. He also spent 14 years with Fleet Boston as managing director and group head of credit derivatives. Kevin earned an undergraduate degree in physics from Bridgewater State University, an MBA from Bryant University and holds a certificate in Machine Learning from Cornell University.

Elaine Kan, CFA has served as a portfolio manager of the Loomis Sayles Inflation Protected Securities Fund since 2012. Ms. Kan, Vice President and rate and currency strategist for the fixed income group of Loomis Sayles, began her investment career in 1997 and joined Loomis Sayles in 2011. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles, she was a portfolio analyst at Convexity Capital Management. Previously, she was a fixed income analyst at Harvard Management Company. Ms. Kan earned a B.S. in engineering, a B.S. in finance and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Kan holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst®