Stephanie Goldych Abelard is a vice president and associate investment director for the relative return team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where she is responsible for supporting the growth and retention of relative return assets.

Stephanie has 15 years of investment industry experience. She joined Loomis Sayles in 2008 as an operations analyst and later became fixed income global settlements administrator. Stephanie then moved to the global fixed income team, where, as a client portfolio analyst, she completed frequent reporting for clients, wrote quarterly commentaries for the global bond and emerging market strategies, and worked closely with the portfolio managers and investment directors to respond to ad hoc client requests. She joined the relative return team as a product management analyst in 2018 and was promoted to associate investment director in 2020. Prior to Loomis Sayles, Stephanie was a portfolio administrator at Robeco Investment Management, where she monitored daily cash flows, and reconciled client portfolios and worked with custodian banks to process fund transactions.

Stephanie earned a BS from the State University of New York at Fredonia and an MSF/MBA from Northeastern University