Pramila Agrawal

Dr. Pramila Agrawal is a Portfolio Manager & Director of Custom Income Strategies at Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP.She is the head of the custom income strategies (CIS) group at Loomis, Sayles & Company and a portfolio manager for specialized fixed income mandates.
She is also a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.
Her areas of expertise include asset allocation, managing book income and tax-aware, cross asset portfolios spanning corporates, municipals and securitized.
In her role, she co-manages assets with investment teams and collaborates with clients to design customized solutions.
She has over 16 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2007 as an Analyst in the quantitative research risk analysis group.
Later, she joined the relative return team as a strategist and was promoted to portfolio manager for the buy & maintain strategies in 2018.
In 2019, she was named head of the CIS group and began managing the municipal bond products in 2021.
Dr. Agrawal was previously employed as a Research & Development Engineer by Metis Design Corp.
and a Principal by The MathWorks, Inc. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in India, and a master’s of science degree and PhD in Robotics from Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN.