Barath W. Sankaran, CFA^®

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 and is a CFA^® charterholder.