Biography

Bobby Bakshi is a Co-Director of the Applied Integrated Quant (Applied IQ) Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He joined Loomis Sayles in 2009. Prior to this, Bobby was a global equity portfolio manager at Wellington Management. He has previously held senior quantitative and risk-related positions at TIAA-CREF, Putnam Investments, Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers. Bobby earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He is a CFAĀ® charterholder.

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About the Applied IQ Team

Investors on the Applied IQ team

Bernardo Aumond, PhD
Co-Director of Applied Integrated Quant
Michael Crowell
Chief Investment Research Officer
Guohua Xia, PhD, CFA, FRM
Quantitative Analyst
Megan Wan, CFA
Quantitative Analyst
Gulliermo Ruiz-Rico, CFA
Quantitative Analyst
Dennis Kadourov, CFA
Quantitative Analyst
Andrew Hon
Quantitative Analyst
Ali Faghih, PhD
Quantitative Analyst
Arpit Jain
Quantitative Associate