Loomis Sayles has been guided by a single purpose for 100 years – helping clients achieve their goals with clarity and confidence. Founded in 1926, in Boston, USA, by four visionary investors: A. Vere Shaw, Ralph T. Sayles, Robert H. Loomis and Arthur B. Nichols to provide independent, research-driven investment counsel to its clients. Loomis Sayles, which joined Natixis Investment Managers’ network of affiliated investment managers in 2000, offers a broad range of investment strategies and solutions to clients around the world.
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Lessons from 100 years of navigating market uncertainty
In Echoes, the latest Natixis Investment Managers white paper we interviewed 14 seasoned portfolio managers including three from Loomis Sayles - to reveal what they have discovered about investing over the past quarter of a century, and how these lessons may be signals for the future.
- David Rolley, Global Fixed Income: “What’s your hedge if tech optimism falls short?”
- Aziz Hamzaogullari, Growth Equity Strategies: “Durable growth still exists for the patient and diligent”
- Lynda Schweitzer, Global Fixed Income: “How to avoid becoming a market dinosaur”
Echoes: Durable growth still exists for the patient and diligent
With a career in equities investing that extends beyond three decades, Loomis Sayles’ Aziz Hamzaogullari knows more than most about market bubbles and corrections, and why uncertainty demands a structural and permanent approach to risk mitigation.
Echoes: What’s your hedge if tech optimism falls short?
Loomis Sayles’ investment industry veteran David Rolley distils 40-plus years of investment wisdom to explain how we got to where we are, why the optimism around AI puts us in a particularly perilous position, and what it all means for fixed income investors.
Echoes: How to avoid becoming a market dinosaur
Loomis Sayles’ bond market veteran, Lynda Schweitzer, recalls the GFC and Covid to explain why analysts today need a healthy appreciation of game theory and behavioural finance, and why her team’s internal debates are often a microcosm of broader markets.
* Source: Loomis Sayles, as of 12/31/2025
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