This week Dilawer Farazi returned to Loomis Sayles to officially begin as co-head and portfolio manager for the Boston-based firm's Emerging Markets Debt (EMD) strategy. He will be based in the firm's Finsbury Circus office in London.

Farazi brings two decades of experience across emerging-markets corporate and sovereign credit to the role. He previously served at Loomis Sayles from 2018 to 2020 as a senior credit research analyst before joining Royal London Asset Management, where he led RLAM's EM Credit team. During his tenure at Royal London, Farazi oversaw roughly $1 billion in EM credit assets and launched the firm’s first dedicated emerging-markets corporate bond strategy, including a short-duration EM credit fund.

“Dilawer’s deep expertise in emerging markets credit and his prior experience with our team make him an exceptional addition,” said David Waldman, Chief Investment Officer of Loomis Sayles. “His return reflects our commitment to expanding our global capabilities and delivering differentiated investment solutions to our clients.”

He will share leadership of the EMD team with Elisabeth Colleran, CFA and oversee a range of emerging-markets debt strategies spanning Asia high-yield and investment-grade corporates, global  EM corporate credit, short-duration credit, and buy-and-maintain portfolios.

Separately, Loomis announced the transitional sale of its EM Equities strategy earlier this fall to Dubai-based FIM Partners.