Biography

Brian Fahrman is a Municipal Bond Trader for the Fixed Income Group at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He has 26 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2019 as part of the firm’s acquisition of McDonnell Investment Management, where he had served as an assistant portfolio manager in the municipal client group. In this role, Brian was responsible for implementing tax-exempt investment strategies for the company’s client portfolios. He joined the municipal bond trading desk in 2021. Previously, he was an investment analyst at Credit Suisse Securities, where he was responsible for presenting market opportunities to the private bank and analyzing the tax-exempt market in search of inefficiencies and relative value opportunities. While at Credit Suisse, Brian also served as a senior municipal bond trader for eight years, during which time he was responsible for developing, recommending and implementing customized fixed income strategies for high-net-worth separately managed accounts. Prior to this, he was a municipal marketing specialist at Merrill Lynch & Co. as well as a portfolio manager/municipal bond trader at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management. Brian earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of Maine and an MA in Criminal Law & Procedure from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

About the Municipal Bond Team

Investors on the Municipal Bond team

Dawn Mangerson
Portfolio Manager, Head of Municipal Portfolio Management
Pramila Agrawal, PhD, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Head of Custom Income Strategies
Michael Skurka, CFA
Investment Director
Ryan Friend
Senior Investment Analyst
Lawrence Jones
Municipal Bond Trader
John Ward
Portfolio Specialist
Agnes Choi
Portfolio Specialist
Thomas O'Connell
Portfolio Management & Implementation Services Analyst
Mark Muskievicz
Portfolio Management & Implementation Services Analyst
Kelly Cruse
Director of Municipal Research
Bedford Lydon, III
Senior Credit Research Analyst
Derek Endsley
Senior Credit Research Analyst
Allison Bretz
Senior Credit Research Analyst
Joe Prestamer
Senior Credit Research Associate
Michael Grygo
Senior Credit Research Analyst
Vas Karanxha
Credit Research Associate