Steve LaPlante

Portfolio Manager, Mortgage and Structured Finance at Loomis, Sayles & Company

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Steve LaPlante is a vice president of Loomis, Sayles & Company and a co-portfoliomanager on the mortgage and structured finance team for the investment gradesecuritized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies. He is also asenior analyst, specializing in RMBS and covered bonds.Steve joined Loomis Sayles in 2017 as a mortgage and structured finance analystand has 13 years of investment industry experience. Previously, he was a senioranalyst at Manulife, responsible for the mortgage credit sector including nonagencyRMBS and agency risk transfer securities. Prior to this, Steve was a senioranalyst at Income Research and Management, serving as the primary analystin commercial mortgage credit, including CMBS and agency CMBS securities.Before this, he was at White Mountains Advisors as a portfolio analyst, maintainingportfolio level analytics, evaluating pricing models, and monitoring exposuresacross the firm’s portfolios, which included ABS, CMBS, RMBS holdings as well asAgency, Sovereign and Corporate securities.Steve earned a BS from Union College and an MBA from Carnegie MellonUniversity.