About Russell Every effort is about financial security At Russell, our purpose is to improve financial security for people by providing strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks, and a range of objectively researched, institutional-quality investment products. Our innovative investment approach is made available to individuals through a network of strategic distribution alliances and independent investment advisors. Our clients include banks and insurance companies, investment advisors, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds. Russell by the numbers   Founded in 1936 Creator of the Russell Global Indexes, including the Russell 2000® $174.4 billion in assets under management¹ approximately $786 billion* in assets under advisement2 2,900 institutional clients and millions of individual shareholders in 46 countries Rated #1 in Money Manager Research3 5,200 investment products scrutinized annually Fewer than 3% of researched money managers make it into our funds Global Alliances We deliver our investment programs by joining forces with some of the leading financial services organizations throughout the world. Industry leaders depend on us Many of the world's most successful organizations depend on our expertise to help build long-term financial security for their business and their employees. We design investment plans of all sizes to suit each of our client's particular needs. Our consulting and investment clients include4: Alcoa AmerisourceBergen Corp. Barclays Bank BHP Billiton Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust Boeing Caterpillar Coca-Cola Bottling Co. General Motors Public School & Educational Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri Toyota Motor Pension Fund Russell in the emerging world In 1990, Russell Chairman Emeritus, George F. Russell Jr. founded Russell 20-20, an independent, non-profit group of major pension funds and money managers. The purpose of the group is to assess the investment climate in a search for prudent investment opportunities in emerging markets around the world. Members make independent investment decisions and, together, represent about US$12 trillion in investment capital. Russell 20-20 delegations have traveled to nearly 20 countries. ¹ As of 09/30/09 2 As of 09/30/08 3Russell Investments holds the largest market share of the global manager-of-managers market which includes "collective investment funds or institutional separate accounts with assets managed as segregated accounts by multiple underlying managers." The Cerulli Report™, Quantitative Update: Global Multimanager Product, 2007. 4U.S. and non-U.S. clients on this representative list were selected from Russell Investments' complete client roster from those who have given permission to publish their names (as of 4/09). U.S. publicly-held companies listed are Russell clients that appear on the 2008 Fortune 100 list. The non-public company client and endowment/foundation client are each those with the highest total assets. Non-U.S. clients listed represent those with the highest total assets in each of the following regions: Austral-Asia, Japan and Europe. Performance-based data was not used in selecting listed clients. The identification of the clients listed does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of Russell's products or services by such client. The Russell 2000® Index measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000® Index, representative of the U.S. small capitalization securities market. Indexes and/or benchmarks are unmanaged and cannot be invested in directly. Russell Investment Group is a Washington, USA corporation, which operates through subsidiaries worldwide, including Russell Investments, and is a subsidiary of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. First used March 2009 CORP-5654

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