Riti Samanta

Co-Head of Global Fixed Income

Dr. Riti Samanta is a Senior Director and Co-Head of North America Fixed Income at Russell Investments. She is responsible for overseeing the management of fixed income funds and accounts, guiding the development of tailored client solutions, and advancing quantitative fixed income strategies through research and implementation.

Before joining Russell Investments, Dr. Samanta was a Portfolio Manager at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo (GMO), where she led the firm’s flagship Multi-Sector Fixed Income Fund. She also managed customized solutions, including liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies, ESG-aware emerging market debt, and systematic green bonds.

Prior to GMO, she served as Managing Director of Fixed Income and Currencies at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), where she developed and led smart beta fixed income strategies and drove innovation in systematic fixed income research and portfolio management.

Dr. Samanta has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on factor-based fixed income strategies and statistical methodologies, including extreme value theory and multivariate correlation modeling. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, focusing on systematic fixed income and its application in multi-sector investment strategies.

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