Stephen M. LaPlante

Mr. Stephen M.
LaPlante, CFA MBA, is a Portfolio Manager & Securitized Strategist at Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP.
He also serves as a Portfolio Manager & Securitized Strategist on the mortgage and structured finance team at Loomis, Sayles & Company.
He is a Securitized Strategist for the Full Discretion team, working directly with portfolio managers to structure the allocation to the sector.
Mr. LaPlante is also a Co-Portfolio Manager & Senior Analyst on the mortgage and structured finance team, responsible for co-managing the investment grade securitized credit and opportunistic securitized credit strategies.
He joined the firm in 2017 as a Mortgage & Structured Finance Analyst and has over 16 years of investment industry experience.
Previously, Mr. LaPlante was a Senior Analyst at Manulife, responsible for the mortgage credit sector including nonagency RMBS and agency risk transfer securities.
Prior to this, he was a Senior Analyst at Income Research and Management, serving as the primary analyst in commercial mortgage credit, including CMBS and agency CMBS securities.
Before this, Mr. LaPlante was at White Mountains Advisors as a Portfolio Analyst, maintaining portfolio level analytics, evaluating pricing models, and monitoring exposures across the firm’s portfolios, which included ABS, CMBS, RMBS holdings as well as Agency, Sovereign and Corporate securities.
He earned a BS from Union College and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is a CFA charterholder.