John Reginald Bell

Mr. John R.
Bell is a Vice President & Portfolio Manager at Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP.
He is part of the Loomis Sayles fixed income group.
He joined Loomis Sayles in 2001, to build the firm’s bank loan capabilities.
Previously, Mr. Bell was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Back Bay Advisors, and was Head of Credit at Jurika & Voyles, where he helped manage fixed income assets, including high yield.
He was also President and Principal for Sextant Investments, a Merchant Bank, and Director of Research at Dabney/ Resnick, Inc., a brokerage specializing in distressed securities.
He was one of the original non-bank buyers of bank loans starting in 1988, when he was in charge of developing the bank loan effort at First Capital Holdings/First Capital Life Insurance.
He later became director of research at First Capital, which managed nearly $10 billion in assets, including over $4 billion of high yield bonds and over $300 million of bank loans.
Mr. Bell received his BBA degree from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley.