Loomis Sayles Growth Equity Strategies Team Celebrates Twenty-Year Milestones

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Loomis, Sayles & Company, the century-old investment manager with nearly $418 billion in assets under management, proudly celebrates the 20-year anniversaries of the Loomis Sayles Large Cap Growth and the Loomis Sayles All Cap Growth strategies, as well as a differentiated approach to growth equity investing under the leadership of Aziz V. Hamzaogullari, CFA, the founder, chief investment officer and portfolio manager of the Loomis Sayles Growth Equity Strategies (GES) Team. Aziz is also an executive vice president and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.

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Celebrating 20 Years of The Power of Active Management Done Right

GES is a cohesive team with 20 years of alpha generation and a long-term, private equity approach to investing.
Under Aziz Hamzaogullari’s leadership since 2010, assets under management for GES have grown from $1.9 billion to $98.2 billion as of 31 May 2026.

Aziz brought a differentiated approach to equity investing when he joined Loomis Sayles in 2010. A proprietary seven-step research framework (QGV7+) supports the GES Team’s long-term, private equity approach to investing. The Team seeks to invest in those few high-quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages and profitable growth only when they trade at a discount to the GES estimate of intrinsic value.

Underpinned by this singular investment philosophy, the GES Team expanded its platform from US-focused Large Cap Growth and All Cap Growth strategies to also include Global Growth and International Growth long-only strategies as well as a Long/Short Growth Equity hedge fund strategy. These strategies are available in the US through vehicles including mutual funds, managed accounts, CITs and an ETF as well as UCITS and other vehicles outside the US.

The GES Team believes a focus on the quality of a manager’s investment philosophy, process and decision-making is essential for assessing the probability of future success. The GES alpha thesis encapsulates a deeply held system of persistent beliefs, a rigorous, repeatable investment process and substantive proof points.

“Since joining Loomis Sayles in 2010, Aziz and the Growth Equity Strategies (GES) Team have exemplified excellence through their unwavering commitment to delivering superior risk-adjusted returns for our clients,” said Kevin Charleston, Chief Executive Officer, Loomis Sayles. “Their distinctive investment philosophy, grounded in a disciplined and differentiated approach, has consistently driven strong performance. We are immensely proud of the GES Team’s achievements and the lasting impact they continue to make.”

“I want to sincerely thank our investors for their continued trust and confidence. We remain firmly committed to our core principles of long-term investing, guided by the differentiated insights that define our approach,” said Aziz V. Hamzaogullari, CFA, Founder, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, Loomis Sayles Growth Equity Strategies Team.

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ABOUT LOOMIS SAYLES

For a century, Loomis, Sayles & Company has built a legacy focused on fulfilling the investment needs of institutional and retail clients worldwide. To do this, our performance-driven investors aim to deliver long-term results by leveraging deep, independent research and rigorous risk analysis. With the resources, foresight, and flexibility to look far and wide for value in broad and narrow markets, Loomis Sayles has remained a trusted partner to its clients since 1926. Loomis Sayles proudly manages $417.9 billion* in assets on behalf of clients worldwide (as of March 31, 2026).

*Includes the assets of both Loomis, Sayles & Co., LP, and Loomis Sayles Trust Company, LLC. ($53.9 billion for the Loomis Sayles Trust Company). Loomis Sayles Trust Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.

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