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 over 35 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 and an MBA from Bryant University.
