Peter Palfrey is a portfolio manager for the fixed income group at Loomis, Sayles & Company. With 40 years of investment industry experience, Peter co-manages the Loomis Sayles Core Plus strategy, which includes the Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond Fund, and the Loomis Sayles active US Treasury strategies. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles in 2001, he worked for Back Bay Advisors as senior vice president and portfolio manager, and for MONY Capital Management as investment vice president and portfolio manager. Peter earned a BA from Colgate University.

Rick Raczkowski is a portfolio manager and co-head of the relative return team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages the Loomis Sayles Corporate Bond strategies and Core Plus Fixed Income strategy, which includes the Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond Fund. Rick is also a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. He has 34 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2001. Prior to Loomis Sayles, Rick served as vice president for Back Bay Advisors and was a senior consultant at both Hagler Bailly Consulting and EDS Management Consulting/A.T. Kearney. He also worked as an economist and industry analyst for DRI McGraw-Hill. Rick earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Northeastern University

an Anderson is the agency MBS strategist for the mortgage and structured finance team at Loomis, Sayles & Company where he is responsible for developing agency MBS research and relative value recommendations across all fixed income products. He 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, developing and implementing relative value alpha strategies for the agency MBS, CMO, CMBS, reverser mortgage and hybrid sub-portfolios. Prior to this, Ian was responsible for agency CMO structured book, conducting hedging of assets and assisting researchers to develop accurate prepayment and term structure models. He began as a financial analyst and later became a senior securities analyst and assisted traders with inquiries into various model risk analytics and forecasts in various asset classes, helped design and implement a short horizon portfolio tracking system, compared internal model prepayment speeds and risk analytics, and designed and produced return attribution reports for the portfolio.

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 been dedicated to the agency MBS effort with the goal of developing best-in-class investment capabilities. He was instrumental in creating the firm's proprietary prepayment model and has led the creation of a fundamentally-driven relative value approach to investing in specified MBS pools. In 2018, Barath was promoted to portfolio manager. Prior to Loomis Sayles, he held multiple roles at Johnson & Johnson, where he was a member of the Information Management Leadership Development Program, a Six Sigma dashboard architect and later a business relationship lead for the consumer products division. Barath earned a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is fluent in German.