Alessandro Pagani, CFA, has over 22 years of investment experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2008. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles, Mr. Pagani served as co-head of global research and credit at Cambridge Place Investment Management and director of asset-backed securities research at Banc One Capital Markets. He earned a doctoral degree in economics and commerce from the University of Brescia in Italy and holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst®.

Ian Anderson is the agency MBS strategist for the mortgage and structured finance team, responsible for developing agency MBS research and relative value recommendations across all fixed income products. Ian is the lead portfolio manager for the dedicated agency MBS strategies and a co-agency MBS portfolio manager for the Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond Fund. Ian joined Loomis Sayles in 2011 from Fannie Mae, where he held several positions over his 11 year tenure. Most recently, he was a senior portfolio manager for Fannie Mae’s investment portfolio。Prior to joining Loomis Sayles, Mr. Anderson served as a senior portfolio manager and an agency CMO trader for Fannie Mae and a research analyst for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He earned a B.S. in economics from The University of Chicago and an M.S. in finance from The George Washington University.

Barath Sankaran is a member of the mortgage and structured finance team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He is a co-portfolio manager for the dedicated agency MBS strategies and a co-agency MBS portfolio manager for the Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond Fund. Additionally, Barath guides other product teams at the firm in the optimal sector allocation and portfolio implementation of agency MBS. Barath joined Loomis Sayles in 2009 as an analyst in the mortgage and structured finance group, where he initially focused on non-agency RMBS and gradually expanded his role to agency MBS. Since 2011, Barath has

Steve LaPlante is a portfolio manager and securitized strategist on the mortgage and structured finance team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He is a securitized strategist for the Full Discretion team, working directly with portfolio managers to structure the allocation to the sector. He is also a co-portfolio manager and senior analyst on the mortgage and structured finance team, responsible for co-managing the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies.

Jennifer M. Thomas has served as portfolio manager of the Loomis Sayles Securitized Asset Fund since 2021. Ms. Thomas has over 18 years of investment experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2007. Ms. Thomas earned a B.S. from Bryant University and an M.B.A. from Clark University.