David Rolley, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
David Rolley, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
David Rolley is a portfolio manager and co-head of the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. With 43 years of investment industry experience, he co-manages the Loomis Sayles Global Bond and Global Allocation funds in addition to a suite of products outside the US, and multiple emerging market and global bond portfolios. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles in 1994, he was a principal and director of international capital market research at DRI/McGraw-Hill. His responsibilities included international interest rate and currency forecasting, and risk management consulting. David was also corporate vice president and senior US economist for the institutional equity group at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and chief financial economist at Chase Econometrics. David earned a BA from Occidental College and studied post-graduate economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a past president of the Boston Association of Business Economists.
Lynda Schweitzer, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
Lynda Schweitzer, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
Lynda Schweitzer is a portfolio manager and co-head of the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. With 37 years of investment industry experience, Lynda co-manages the Loomis Sayles Global Bond Fund, in addition to a suite of products outside the US and multiple global bond portfolios. She is also a member of the macro strategies, developed markets sovereign and global credit sector teams. Prior to joining Loomis Sayles in 2001 as a global portfolio specialist and trader, Lynda worked at Putnam Investments as a global bond trader for both developed and emerging markets. In her tenure at Putnam, Lynda was also a global fixed income trading assistant and custody operations supervisor. Previously, Lynda worked for State Street Bank and Trust Co. as a fund accountant, responsible for custody and pricing of global fixed income funds. She earned a BA from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Boston University.
Scott Service, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
Scott Service, CFA
Co-Head, Portfolio Manager
Scott Service is a portfolio manager and co-head of the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He co-manages the Loomis Sayles Global Bond Fund. In addition, Scott co-manages global bond and global credit accounts as well as a suite of products outside the US. Scott joined Loomis Sayles in 1995 and was promoted to credit analyst in 1999. Between 2001 and 2003, Scott worked in Paris for Loomis Sayles’ parent company, Natixis Investment Managers, covering European credits across various industries and honing his international credit analysis skills. He returned to the Loomis Sayles fixed income team in 2003 and became leader of the global credit sector team. In 2004, Scott joined the global bond team. Previously, he held financial accounting positions at both State Street Bank and PNC Bank. Scott earned a BS from Babson College and an MBA from Bentley College.
Hank Lynch, CFA
Global Strategist
Hank Lynch, CFA
Global Strategist
Hank Lynch is a global strategist for the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, focusing on currency and rates strategy. He has 33 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2012 as a product manager for the global fixed income team. Prior to Loomis Sayles, he was senior managing director of global options trading at State Street Bank, responsible for leading State Street’s currency option trading desk. He has also worked as an options trader at Fleet Bank, and performed quantitative research and portfolio strategy as vice president of the global bond group at Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Hank earned a BA from Amherst College.
Heather Ridill, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Global Credit Strategist
Heather Ridill, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Global Credit Strategist
Heather Ridill is a global credit strategist on the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. She is also a co-portfolio manager for the global credit and global corporate strategies. Heather joined Loomis Sayles as a credit research associate in 2007. Beginning in 2012, she spent three years at Loomis Sayles Investments Limited, the firm's London-based entity, as a credit research analyst and later, as a senior credit research analyst. During this time, Heather covered European utilities, global chemicals, and European consumer credits. In 2015, she joined the global fixed income team. Prior to Loomis Sayles, Heather was an equity research assistant at Merrill Lynch. Previously, she was a fund accountant at State Street Bank. Heather earned a BA from Fordham University and an MBA from Boston College.
Ryan MacKay
Global Credit Strategist
Ryan MacKay
Global Credit Strategist
Ryan MacKay is a global credit strategist on the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, he identifies strong relative value credit ideas for the firm’s global bond product suite. Ryan joined Loomis Sayles in 1999 as a research associate and was promoted to credit analyst in 2001. He was later promoted to senior credit research analyst, covering the pharmaceuticals, healthcare and health insurance sectors, and also served as the high yield sector team coordinator for the credit research group. Ryan joined the global fixed income team in 2018. Previously, he was a senior portfolio analyst at Putnam Investments. He earned a BA from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Boston College.
Raffaello Distefano, CFA
Investment Director
Raffaello Distefano, CFA
Investment Director
Raffaello Distefano is an investment director for the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He began his investment industry career in 1994 and joined Loomis Sayles in 2006. Prior to Loomis Sayles, Raffaello worked for Hasbro as a director in the company’s international treasury center in Delemont, Switzerland. Previously, he was a senior financial analyst for Hills Stores. Raffaello has also worked as an independent financial consultant for Investors Capital, and as an account executive at John Hancock. He earned a BS from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Kevin Creeden, CFA
Investment Director
Kevin Creeden, CFA
Investment Director
Kevin Creeden is an investment director for the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He joined Loomis Sayles in 2019 and has 27 years of investment industry experience. Previously, Kevin was a product manager at RBC Global Asset Management, where he served as the US-based product specialist for RBC’s wholly-owned, London-based fixed income subsidiary, BlueBay Asset Management. Prior to this, he was at Fidelity Institutional Asset Management, where, as an investment director for Fidelity’s high income division supporting the institutional asset management channel, he focused on high yield, bank loan and emerging market debt strategies. Kevin earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Boston College. He holds FINRA licenses 3, 7 and 63.
Karl Davis
Senior Risk Analyst
Karl Davis
Senior Risk Analyst
Karl Davis is a senior risk analyst for the quantitative research risk analysis group at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 from a fixed income analyst position at Freedom Capital Management. Previously, Karl was a fixed income trader at Tucker Anthony, Inc. He earned a BA from Wake Forest University and an MBA from Babson College.
Gary Mahler
Senior Investment Analyst
Gary Mahler
Senior Investment Analyst
Gary Mahler is a senior investment analyst for the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He began his investment industry career in 2004 and joined Loomis Sayles in 2008 as an operations analyst. Gary was later promoted to senior operations analyst and then manager of fixed income operations before joining the global fixed income team in 2014 as an investment analyst. He was promoted to senior investment analyst in 2019. Previously, Gary worked at State Street Bank as a senior fund accountant. He earned a BS from the University of Richmond.
Matthew Murray
Investment Analyst
Matthew Murray
Investment Analyst
Matt Murray is an investment analyst for the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, he is responsible for developing real-time monitors to track various portfolio positions and analytics, partnering with portfolio specialists and traders on the implementation of portfolio managers' and strategists' ideas and preparing analyses and custom reports to aid and enhance the investment process. Matt joined Loomis Sayles in 2018 as a client portfolio analyst and moved to the global fixed income team in 2022. Previously, he was a client service manager at Standish Mellon, driving the analysis and reporting of client portfolios. Matt earned a BS from the University of Rhode Island and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Nadia Son
Investment Associate
Nadia Son
Investment Associate
Nadia Son is an investment associate on the global fixed income team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. In this role, she conducts analysis on ESG factors to track engagement with issuers and ensure the portfolios are meeting their ESG compliance requirements and creates portfolio position reports highlighting corporate issue exposures above risk thresholds. Nadia began her investment industry career when she joined Loomis Sayles in 2022 after completing an internship with the global fixed income team. She earned a BS in economics-finance and a BA in global perspectives from Bentley University.
