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Russell Canadian Equity Pool
Series A Units

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Summary of the Investment Portfolio


Goal
To provide current income and long-term capital appreciation by investing principally in Canadian issuers listed on recognized stock exchanges.

Target Allocation
(Actual manager allocation may vary)

Style   Weight   Manager
         
Growth   25%   Picton Mahoney Asset Management
Market Oriented   17%   Greystone Managed Investments inc.
Value   28%   Foyston, Gordon & Payne Inc.
Market Oriented   20%   Aurion Capital Management Inc.
Growth   10%   Goodman Canadian Equity Growth


Investment Performance

31-May-09   3 mths   YTD   1 yr.   3 yrs.   5 yrs.   10 yrs.   Incep.*
                             
Series A   28.86   16.53   -30.97   -5.18   3.76   5.12   8.19


Total Number of Holdings: 170
as of March 31, 2009


Total Pool Assets: $727.9 million
as of March 31, 2009

Summary of the Investment Portfolio

Top 25 Holdings*   % of net asset value of the Pool
As at March 31, 2009    
Toronto Dominion Bank   4.3
Encana Corporation   4.2
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.   4.0
Royal Bank of Canada   3.7
Bank of Nova Scotia   3.2
Research In Motion Ltd.   2.5
Potash Corp.   2.5
Manulife Financial Corporation   2.4
Gold Corp Inc.   2.4
Agrium Inc.   2.3
TransCanada Corp.   2.3
Rogers Communications Inc.   2.3
Talisman Energy Inc.   2.2
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce   2.1
Telus Corp.   2.1
Petro Canada   2.1
Canadian National Railway Co.   2.1
Barrick Gold Corp.   2.1
Sun Life Financial Inc.   1.9
Imperial Oil Ltd.   1.8
ING Canada Inc.   1.8
Shoppers Drug Mart Corp.   1.7
Husky Energy Inc.   1.7
Groupe CGI Inc.   1.6
BCE Inc.   1.5
     
Net Asset Value (thousands of dollars)   $727,860


Note: The statement of investment portfolio may change due to ongoing portfolio transactions of the Portfolio. This list will be updated within 60 days of each quarter end and is available on our website- www.russell.com/ca.


Sector Weights   % of net asset value of the Pool
As at March 31, 2009    
Energy   28.4
Financials   24.6
Materials   16.2
Industrials   7.0
Telecommunications Services   6.7
Information Technology   6.2
Consumer Staples   4.8
Consumer Discretionary   4.8
Health Care   0.8
Utilities   0.6






Each Pool in the Russell Sovereign Investment Program® (other than Russell Diversified Monthly Income Portfolio and Russell Retirement Essentials Portfolio) offers Series A, B, E, F and O units. The Russell Diversified Monthly Income Portfolio has E-5 and E-7, I-5, I-7, F-5 and F-7 units. The Russell Retirement Essentials Portfolio has E-5, E-6, E-7, I-5, I-6, I-7, F-5, F-6 and F-7. The returns of each series of units may differ as a result of varying fees and expenses. Series A and B units have the same management fee. Your adviser is paid a trailer fee as compensation for providing services to you. Series F units are sold only to investors enrolled in a fee-for-service or wrap program and these units have a reduced management fee and do not pay trailer fees to the adviser. Instead each investor negotiates a separate, ongoing fee that is paid directly to their adviser and is based on the market value of the investors' assets. Series O units are only available from Russell Investments Canada Limited and are generally not sold to the public. They are intended to be used in fund of fund arrangements and other wrap programs sponsored by us. They are also available to large institutional investors or other accounts as we may determine from time to time on a case-by-case basis. No management fees are charged to the Pools with respect to the Series O units. Instead, each Series O investor negotiates a separate fee that is paid directly by the investor. Series E units targets large investors and as such, have a higher minimum investment and a lower trailer and management fee. For more information about our Pools please see Legal Information.

Series A units of Russell Canadian Equity Pool, Russell US Equity Pool, Russell Overseas Equity Pool and Russell Canadian Fixed Income Pool have been available since January 1993. The Emerging Markets Equity Series A units have been available since June 1997 and the Global Equity and Money Market Series A units have been available since April 1998. With the exception of Russell Diversified Monthly Income Portfolio, Russell Retirement Essentials Portfolio and Russell Core Plus Fixed Income Pool, Series B and F units of all the pools have been available since 2001. Russell Core Plus Fixed Income Pool and the Series E units of all the Russell Sovereign have been available since October 2007. Russell Core Plus Fixed Income Pool has been available since October 2007. Russell Retirement Essentials Portfolio has been available since March 2008. Series F-5, F-7 and I-5 of Russell Diversified Monthly Income Portfolio have been available since November 2005 and I-7 of Russell Diversified Monthly Income Portfolio has been available since November 2004.

Unless otherwise noted, all the rates shown are for the period ending March 31, 2009. The rates shown are compounded yearly. They also include changes in unit value and all money that has been re-invested.

Data sources include: S&P/TSX Composite Index, Dex Universe Bond Index and Dex 30-day T-bills, Bank of Canada: Consumer Price Index, GIC's and Conventional Mortgages, Standard and Poor's 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, MSCI Regional and EAFE Indexes and MSCI Emerging Markets Index.


Date of first publish: June 5, 2009

*Inception: January 1993

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