Biography

Mike Skurka is an Investment Director for the Municipal Bond Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, he is responsible for supporting the growth and retention of the team’s assets. Mike joined Loomis Sayles in 2022 and has 27 years of investment industry experience. Previously, he was a senior product specialist at Resolute Investment Managers, where he was responsible for articulating the firm’s product capabilities to clients, prospects and sales enablers and partnering with senior investment professionals to develop bespoke investment solutions. Prior to this, Mike was a managing director and client portfolio manager at Virtus Investment Partners, where he served as a subject matter expert for clients of multiple portfolio management teams and worked with internal and external parties to develop asset bases of covered strategies. He has also worked as a product specialist at UBS Asset Management and HFR Asset Management. Mike earned a BS from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a CFAĀ® charterholder.

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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
Ryan Friend
Senior Investment Analyst
Lawrence Jones
Municipal Bond Trader
Brian Fahrman
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