Jennifer Thomas is a co-portfolio manager on the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where she co-manages the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies. Prior to this role, she was a senior analyst, specializing in ABS with a focus on consumer ABS. Jennifer is responsible for generating relative value trade ideas to help enhance portfolios and achieve investment objectives, and collaborating on structured product-related initiatives with Client Services and Marketing. In addition, she has also supported the credit and research efforts in CMBS. Jennifer joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 and has 24 years of investment industry experience.
Previously, Jennifer worked at Sun Capital Advisers, LLC where she began as an associate investment analyst and trading assistant on the mortgage backed securities and corporate bond trading desk, responsible for trading, compliance and ad-hoc portfolio management reporting, executing trades and maintaining portfolios, and assisting with detailed investigations for trade discrepancies or fails. Later she was a fixed income investment analyst responsible for performing analysis and trade recommendations for transportation, environmental services and provincial services sectors, and providing analysis and recommendations of high grade corporate bonds and agency MBS.
Jennifer earned a BS from Bryant University and an MBA from Clark University.