About Russell Indexes The industry leader in evaluating equity investment performance Over the past 25 years, Russell's innovative methodology has helped their indexes become the benchmarks most used by institutional investors. Currently, institutional investment professionals responsible for over $4.3 trillion in assets use Russell indexes to guide their portfolios. Better tools make better investors   More comprehensive. Russell indexes represent over 98% of the investable universe worldwide. More direct applications. Russell indexes are modular and transparent in their design. Completely objective. Industries and sectors are represented by a wide variety of securities, rather than samples found in other indexes. Rigorously maintained. Rules dictate additions to the indexes every quarter, ensuring constant coverage. Russell is a recognized leader in consulting, multi-manager investing and institutional investment management. Our consultants advise clients on approximately $786 billion in assets. We deliver investment programs to over 2,000 clients in 46 countries. With $174.4 billion in assets in our funds, Russell researchers meet with over 4,000 investment managers around the world to evaluate their investment process. This success has been based on Russell's research-driven evaluation of money managers and in-depth insight into their behavior. It was out of this rigorous research philosophy that the Russell Indexes were conceived in 1984. Today, Russell offers a broad array of global equity indexes designed to objectively track performance, while better reflecting investment manager activity.			Russell innovation Learn how Russell used its insights in 1984 to create benchmarks that best reflected manager behavior Printer friendly version of this page

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