Michelle Seitz
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Michelle Seitz reads as The Strategist through her disciplined reframing of Russell Investments around a singular, scalable identity, investment solutions rather than a sprawling product catalog. She reasons backward from client value and demographic inevitability, consciously correcting historical misallocations of R&D capital along the way. Seitz does more than set direction, she interrogates why the firm exists at all and rebuilds coherence around what actually endures.
“I define the firm today as an investment solutions firm. That's the only thing we do — provide investment solutions with end-to-end capabilities, so that we are either an extension of an investment staff or a full outsource of your staff.”
“We had to align the firm's activities around values that clients valued more than just liked. You can't customize everything and definitely can't grow a durable, profitable franchise by individualizing every single thing without it being scalable.”
“I wish we had understood thirty years ago how critical that need was going to be with an aging demographic and how fast the clock was ticking, versus being so concentrated on putting all our R&D dollars into beating benchmarks.”
Masters in Business: “Michelle Seitz on Alternative Investments (Podcast)”
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