Mark Burns is a co-portfolio manager at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where he co-manages the Loomis Sayles Specialty Growth Strategies. He has over 25 years of investment industry experience. Mark joined Loomis Sayles in 1999 as a small cap growth analyst working on a range of sectors, including technology, consumer and healthcare. He was promoted to portfolio manager in 2005, at which point he co-founded the new small cap growth strategy. Mark previously worked as an investment analyst for New England Pension Consultants, where he researched small cap strategies, developed risk/return assumptions for all asset classes and performed asset allocation studies.
He earned his undergraduate degree at Colby College and an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Mark is a CFA® charterholder.