Biography
John Ward is a Fixed Income Portfolio Specialist at Loomis, Sayles & Company, covering municipal bond products. He has 36 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, John was responsible for assisting in the analysis and implementation of tax-exempt investment strategies, including portfolio monitoring, trading and reporting for the company’s separate account portfolios. He became a portfolio specialist in 2021. Previously, he worked in the 30-year Treasury bond pit at the Chicago Board of Trade, where he provided current market price quotes to customers, communicated customer orders to pit brokers and was responsible for reviewing and endorsing all broker transactions. John earned a BBS in Economics with a minor in Business from Eastern Illinois University.
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