Loomis Sayles’ Kennedy On Credit Market Risks & Opportunities

Brian Kennedy, VP, Portfolio Manager, Full Discretion Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company joins Keith Black, Ph.D, CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director at RIA Channel to discuss the state of global fixed income markets and what investors can expect headed into 2023. Kennedy weighs in on the Fed’s next move, inflation implications, sectors to watch and the importance of security selection in today’s challenging fixed income market. 

“It’s a very different world stage than what we have been used to in the last 30 years,” says Kennedy, citing sustained inflation, tightening monetary policy, a difficult labor market, and the ‘weaponization of commodities’ as key challenges.

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Loomis Sayles Full Discretion Team

Brian Kennedy is a vice president of Loomis, Sayles & Company and co-portfolio manager on the full discretion team. He has 32 years of investment industry experience. Brian joined Loomis Sayles in 1994 as a securitized and government bond trader. He transitioned to the high yield trading desk in 2001, where he initiated the firm’s trading of bank loans, while also trading high yield, convertibles, derivatives and equities. Brian joined the full discretion team as product manager in 2009 and was promoted to co-portfolio manager of the investment grade bond product suite in 2013. In 2016, he began co-managing the entire multisector suite of products. Brian began his investment industry career as a fund accountant at the Boston Company. He earned a BS from Providence College and an MBA from Babson College.

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