Russell Investments - A global investment company
Russell is world-renowned for its depth of manager research, quality of manager selection and access to some of the world's leading investment managers. We provide strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks, and a range of institutional-quality investment products for clients.
Working with Institutional Clients
Russell provides investment solutions directly to institutional clients, including pension funds, charities, foundations, banks and other financial services companies. Russell advises many of the world's largest companies on the investment of their pension fund assets. The challenge of meeting the needs of such a demanding group keeps Russell at the cutting edge of investment thinking and research. The advice we give, built on our experience of advising institutional clients since 1969, is complemented by our practical experience of managing clients' assets since 1980.
Products and Services
Russell offers a wide-range of inter-linking investment services to help institutional and individual investors improve financial security for people. The services we offer include:
Implementation services
Investors can control unintended costs and risks by focusing on a wide variety of implementation areas, including security level portfolio management, transition management, synthetic exposures and foreign exchange. As an illustration, in 2010, our team managed 758 transition events representing more than €467 billion for clients around the world, and our Overlay Services group managed assignments for a total notional exposure of €63 billion.
Consulting & advisory services
Russell is among the largest and most well-known institutional consultants. The breadth of our clientele, coupled with more than 40 years of experience of advising some of the world's largest and most sophisticated pools of capital, give us comprehensive insight into the variety of challenges our clients face.
Russell Indexes
The Russell global indexes offer an objective and transparent way to accurately measure distinct segments of the global market, covering approximately 10,000 companies or 98% of the market. The Russell Indexes calculate over 50,000 benchmarks daily covering 65 countries and more than 10,000 securities. Russell also provides the leading U.S. equity index family for institutional investors with over $4.3 trillion in investment assets benchmarked against them.
Third-party Manager solutions
Russell has dedicated over four decades to identifying superior managers. Investors can access these managers in multiple ways through single, multimanager and fund-of-fund investments, covering traditional, alternative and highly specialised asset classes and strategies.
Fiduciary Management
Each scheme has a unique level of internal resources, expertise and complexity. A combination of Russell's rich consulting heritage and comprehensive implementation experience allows investors to choose the right level of delegation to meet their individual appetite and needs.
