Meet the Team
Collegial Culture. Methodical Approach.
Elisabeth Colleran, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Elisabeth Colleran, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Elisabeth Colleran is a portfolio manager for emerging markets debt portfolios at Loomis, Sayles & Company, focusing on investment strategy, portfolio construction and risk management. Since 2012, she has been a senior EM credit strategist, identifying and implementing themes in the EMD product suite. Elisabeth joined Loomis Sayles in 2003 as a senior credit analyst, following the telecom sector on a global basis, with a specialized focus on emerging market corporates in Asia. She started her career at DRI/McGraw Hill (now Global Insight), where she applied analytical tools to a wide set of customer issues including competitor analysis, demand forecasting, pricing strategy and asset valuation. Elisabeth has also served as an investment officer for Sun Capital and fixed income research analyst at Back Bay Advisors. She earned a BA in Economics from the University of Rochester and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire.
Eddy Sternberg
Portfolio Manager
Eddy Sternberg
Portfolio Manager
Eddy Sternberg is a co-portfolio manager of emerging markets debt portfolios at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He has 37 years of investment industry experience as a fixed income analyst and portfolio manager. Before joining Loomis Sayles in 2005, Eddy was a senior analyst and portfolio manager at Evergreen Investments. He also worked as an investment officer for the Inter-American Investment Corporation and a development program associate at BASF. He began his career as a credit analyst with Banco Ganadero Argentino in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eddy attended the Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de Buenos Aires where he received his engineering degree and earned his MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Jackie Lafferty
Investment Strategist
Jackie Lafferty
Investment Strategist
Jackie Lafferty is an investment strategist for the emerging markets debt team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. Within the team, she contributes to the portfolio construction and monitoring process, performs market research and supports the build out of the team’s technology solutions. Jackie began her investment industry career in 2009 and joined Loomis Sayles in 2014. Previously, she worked for Bloomberg LP as an account manager for New England investment firms and a fixed income product specialist. Jackie earned a BA in Economics from Bucknell University and a MS in Finance from Boston College.
Ashley Fritz, CFA
Senior Investment Analyst
Ashley Fritz, CFA
Senior Investment Analyst
Ashley Fritz is a senior investment analyst for the emerging markets debt team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. She joined Loomis Sayles in 2019 and has 13 years of investment industry experience. Previously, Ashley was a market risk consultant in the quantitative risk and research team, within the fiduciary investment risk overview vertical, at Wells Fargo & Company. Prior to this, she was a vice president and senior portfolio analytics specialist at FactSet Research Systems, where she served as a subject matter expert in portfolio level products across the system and as the main analytics contact for over 50 firms across 38 states. Ashley earned a BS from Bentley University.
Katy Palmer
Investment Director
Katy Palmer
Investment Director
Katy Palmer is the emerging markets investment director at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, she supports the growth and retention of emerging market assets while enabling portfolio managers to focus on investment decisions through education, messaging, product customization, product launches, product planning, thought leadership, presentation to the marketplace and overall internal support. Katy has 23 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2009 as a senior marketing analyst. Previously, she was a relationship management associate at Old Mutual Asset Management responsible for the affiliate investment firm relationships. Prior to this, Katy worked in product management and international client service roles at Wellington Management Company. She earned a BA from Bucknell University and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Bernardo Aumond, PhD
Associate Director of the Fixed Income Quantitative Research Risk Analysis Group
Bernardo Aumond, PhD
Associate Director of the Fixed Income Quantitative Research Risk Analysis Group
Bernardo Aumond is an associate director of the fixed income quantitative research risk analysis (QRRA) group at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, he conducts research on risk modeling, portfolio construction, relative value analysis and systematic investment strategies. Bernardo has 16 years of investment industry experience. He joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 and spent seven years as an analyst in the QRRA group. Bernardo then spent four years at Wellington Management as a global multi-asset analyst, responsible for new product development, portfolio construction, risk awareness, client outreach and proprietary relative value analysis, before returning to Loomis Sayles in 2018. Previously, he was the director of engineering at Bioprocessors Corporation, as well as a senior mechanical engineer at SurfaceLogix. Bernardo earned an MS in finance from Suffolk University and an MS and PhD in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
