RUSSELL W. SWANSEN
Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
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Russell Swansen oversees all of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ investments, including mutual funds, variable products and the general account.
Before joining Thrivent Financial in 2003, Swansen was a managing director at Colonnade Advisors, LLC, a Chicago investment bank. Prior to Colonnade, he was president of PPM America, Inc., the U.S. registered investment advisory company established in 1990 as a subsidiary of London-based Prudential Portfolio Managers, Ltd. From 1993 to 1998, he was also Chairman of Prudential Portfolio Managers (Canada) Ltd., in Toronto. From 1983-1990, Swansen was a portfolio manager and later executive vice president of Washington Square Capital, Inc., the investment management subsidiary of ReliaStar Financial Corp., Minneapolis, now a part of ING. Prior to that, he served as an investment officer with U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis.
Swansen has served on the boards of Network Guidance Co., Putnam Lovell Finance, LePage’s Inc., IPM, Inc., Cherrydale Farms, Carolina Steel Corp., and Bucyrus International.
Swansen graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in business and economics. He earned a master’s of business administration-finance degree from the University Of Minnesota Graduate School Of Business, Minneapolis, in 1982.
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