Barath W. Sankaran

Mr. Barath W.
Sankaran, CFA MBA, is a Vice President & Co-Agency MBS Portfolio Manager at Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP.
He is a member of the mortgage and structured finance team.
He is a co-portfolio manager for the dedicated agency MBS strategies.
Additionally, Mr. Sankaran guides other product teams at the firm in the optimal sector allocation and portfolio implementation of agency MBS.
He joined Loomis Sayles in 2009 as an analyst in the mortgage and structured finance group, where he initially focused on non-agency RMBS and gradually expanded his role to agency MBS.
Since 2011, he has been dedicated to the agency MBS effort with the goal of developing best-in-class investment capabilities.
He was instrumental in creating the firm's proprietary prepayment model and has led the creation of a fundamentally-driven relative value approach to investing in specified MBS pools.
In 2018, Mr. Sankaran was promoted to portfolio manager.
Prior to Loomis Sayles, Mr. Sankaran held multiple roles at Johnson & Johnson, where he was a member of the Information Management Leadership Development Program, a Six Sigma dashboard architect and later a business relationship lead for the consumer products division.
Mr. Sankaran earned a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.