LOOMIS SAYLES & CO L P

Loomis, Sayles & Company is a private investment manager that was founded in 1926. The company focuses on delivering services to its clients through fostering performance driven investors, operating in small focused teams, making research one of its core foundations in making investment decisions, an open collegial culture, and an entrepreneurial spirit that encourages its employees to develop their own ideas in order to have “continual improvement of our performance, processes and people.” The company currently has a total of approximately $241 billion assets under management, split almost evenly between mutual funds and institutional investments. The company employs over 650 people and services institutional clients in over 20 countries in all of the major continents. Loomis, Sayles & Company has three domestic offices in Boston, Detroit, and San Francisco in the United States with its headquarters in Boston and has two international offices located in London and Singapore. The company also provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charities, high net worth individuals, and banking institutions. The company’s operating vehicles include mutual funds, hedge funds, institutional separate accounts, and collective trusts. Loomis, Sayles & Company invests in a variety of companies across the size ranges, also placing its funds in investment grade credit securities, convertibles, U.S. treasury and agencies, emerging market debts, bank and corporate loans, and securitized bonds, among others. The indices that the company use to benchmark the performance of its portfolios include the Russell indices, P 500 index, MSCI World Index, Lehman indices, and Citigroup indices. Loomis, Sayles & Company’s research utilizes a top down analysis for fixed income investments and a fundamental analysis with bottom up picking approach to manage its portfolios. Some of its mutual funds include the Core Plus Bond, Emerging Markets Opportunities, Global Bond, High Income, Global Equity and Income Fund and Value funds.