Kate Lakin

Kate is Director of Research and responsible for managing a team of equity analysts, covering all sectors and regions. She directs research initiatives, ensures quality of the research team's output, guides sustainability integration within research, and facilitates collaboration between Putnam's portfolio managers and the Putnam Research team. In addition, Kate is a Portfolio Manager of Putnam's Balanced, U.S. Focused Equity, and U.S. Research strategies. Based in the Boston office, she joined Putnam in 2012 and has been in the investment industry since 2008.

Prior to joining Putnam, Kate was an Equity Research Analyst from 2011 to 2012 and an Equity Research Associate from 2008 to 2011 at Fidelity Investments.

Kate earned an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management and a B.A. from Wellesley College.