Seth Merrill

Investment Management Executive at Independent

Speaker

Seth loves building bridges in the allocation and investment space, with a career spanning public and private fund investing; asset management and wealth management; fundamental and quantitative portfolio management; profit and non-profit organizations; and both investing and corporate finance. Seth recently served as Chief Investment Officer of Crewe Advisors, where his markets and macroeconomic commentary was featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, US News & World Report, Buyouts Insider, and other publications.

At Ensign Peak Advisors, Seth worked with asset allocation of the investment portfolio as Co-Director of the Portfolio Strategy team. Prior to that Seth was head of the Systematic Equities Team at Ensign Peak. Seth joined Ensign Peak from Cederian Investments, where he was Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer. Seth was previously a member of the Global Small Cap Investment Committee and the lead chemical-industry analyst at Brandes Investment Partners in San Diego, CA. Seth started his career working in corporate finance at Ford Motor Company.

Seth received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his BS in Accounting from Brigham Young University (BYU). Seth served a mission in Italy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and also lived six months in the Middle East as a part of a BYU study abroad program. Seth is a CFA® charterholder.