Biography

Jennifer Thomas is a Co-Portfolio Manager on the Structured Finance Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where she co-manages the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Analyst, specializing in ABS with a focus on consumer ABS. Jennifer is responsible for generating relative value trade ideas to help enhance portfolios and achieve investment objectives, and collaborating on structured product-related initiatives with Client Services and Marketing. In addition, she has also supported the credit and research efforts in CMBS. Jennifer joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 and has 25 years of investment industry experience.

Previously, Jennifer worked at Sun Capital Advisers, LLC where she began as an associate investment analyst and trading assistant on the mortgage backed securities and corporate bond trading desk, responsible for trading, compliance and ad-hoc portfolio management reporting, executing trades and maintaining portfolios, and assisting with detailed investigations for trade discrepancies or fails. Later she was a fixed income investment analyst responsible for performing analysis and trade recommendations for transportation, environmental services and provincial services sectors, and providing analysis and recommendations of high grade corporate bonds and agency MBS.

Jennifer earned a BS from Bryant University and an MBA from Clark University. She is a Board Member of the Structured Finance Association (SFA).

Latest Insights by Jennifer Thomas

Alpha Engine Perspectives
June 30, 2022 • 3 min read

Taking the Consumer’s Temperature

With consumer behavior under a magnifying glass, Portfolio Manager Jennifer Thomas shares her assessment of the US consumer.
Structured Finance
Alpha Engine Perspectives
April 30, 2021 • 4 min read

Post-COVID Trials and Trends in Consumer ABS

The consumer asset-backed securities sector is often under heightened scrutiny. As the US economy emerges from the pandemic, Senior Structured Finance Analyst[…]
Structured Finance
Alpha Engine Perspectives
December 23, 2020 • 4 min read

Can The US Consumer Stay Healthy This Winter?

A K-shaped recovery is an uneven one in which some industries and some groups get left behind. That is what we will[…]
Structured Finance