Biography

Jennifer Thomas is a Co-Portfolio Manager on the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where she co-manages the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Analyst, specializing in ABS with a focus on consumer ABS. Jennifer is responsible for generating relative value trade ideas to help enhance portfolios and achieve investment objectives, and collaborating on structured product-related initiatives with Client Services and Marketing. In addition, she has also supported the credit and research efforts in CMBS. Jennifer joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 and has 24 years of investment industry experience.

Previously, Jennifer worked at Sun Capital Advisers, LLC where she began as an associate investment analyst and trading assistant on the mortgage backed securities and corporate bond trading desk, responsible for trading, compliance and ad-hoc portfolio management reporting, executing trades and maintaining portfolios, and assisting with detailed investigations for trade discrepancies or fails. Later she was a fixed income investment analyst responsible for performing analysis and trade recommendations for transportation, environmental services and provincial services sectors, and providing analysis and recommendations of high grade corporate bonds and agency MBS.

Jennifer earned a BS from Bryant University and an MBA from Clark University.

Latest Insights by Jennifer Thomas

Alpha Engine Perspectives Taking the Consumer’s Temperature
June 30, 2022 • 3 min read

Taking the Consumer’s Temperature

With consumer behavior under a magnifying glass, Portfolio Manager Jennifer Thomas shares her assessment of the US consumer.
Mortgage & Structured Finance
Alpha Engine Perspectives Post-COVID Trials and Trends in Consumer ABS
April 30, 2021 • 4 min read

Post-COVID Trials and Trends in Consumer ABS

The consumer asset-backed securities sector is often under heightened scrutiny. As the US economy emerges from the pandemic, Senior Mortgage & Structured[…]
Mortgage & Structured Finance
Alpha Engine Perspectives Can The US Consumer Stay Healthy This Winter?
December 23, 2020 • 4 min read

Can The US Consumer Stay Healthy This Winter?

A K-shaped recovery is an uneven one in which some industries and some groups get left behind. That is what we will[…]
Mortgage & Structured Finance

About the Mortgage and Structured Finance Team

Investors on the Mortgage and Structured Finance team

Alessandro Pagani, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Head of Mortgage and Structured Finance Team
Steve LaPlante, CFA
Portfolio Manager & Securitized Strategist
Barath Sankaran, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Ian Anderson
Portfolio Manager, Agency MBS Strategist
Stephen L'Heureux, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Global Commercial Real Estate & CMBS Strategist
Michael Herald
Portfolio Manager, CLO Strategist
SƩbastien AndrƩ
Mortgage and Structured Finance Portfolio Manager, Euro ABS
Alexandre Boulinguez
Mortgage and Structured Finance Portfolio Manager, Euro ABS
Keyur Vyas, PhD
Senior Mortgage & Structured Finance Analyst
Iris Tang, PhD, CFA
Senior Mortgage & Structured Finance Analyst
Vinnie Zhang, CFA
Senior Research Analyst
Amit Patel, CFA
Senior Mortgage & Structured Finance Analyst
Don Chaney, CFA
Director of Mortgage & Structured Finance Trading
Ahren Lippman, CFA
Senior Trader
Andre Ashook, CFA
Senior Trader
Carina Wang
Mortgage & Structured Finance Analyst and Trader
Ari Resnick
Investment Director
David Rittner, CFA
Investment Strategist