Biography
Steve LaPlante is a Portfolio Manager and Securitized Strategist on the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He is a Securitized Strategist for the Full Discretion Team, working directly with Portfolio Managers to structure the allocation to the sector. He is also a Co-Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst on the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team, responsible for co-managing the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies.
Steve joined Loomis Sayles in 2017 as a Mortgage and Structured Finance Analyst and has 16 years of investment industry experience. Previously, he was a senior analyst at Manulife, responsible for the mortgage credit sector including non-agency RMBS and agency risk transfer securities. Prior to this, Steve was a senior analyst at Income Research and Management, serving as the primary analyst in commercial mortgage credit, including CMBS and agency CMBS securities. Before this, he was at White Mountains Advisors as a portfolio analyst, maintaining portfolio level analytics, evaluating pricing models, and monitoring exposures across the firm’s portfolios, which included ABS, CMBS, RMBS holdings as well as Agency, Sovereign and Corporate securities.
Steve earned a BS from Union College and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a CFA® charterholder.
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About the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team
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