Investment Solutions
Russell Retirement Investment Solutions are designed to help you cover all the bases of retirement. Each solution applies our signature multi-asset, multi-style, multi-manager™ investment approach to deliver the right combination of income, growth and appropriate level of risk.
Russell Retirement Essentials Portfolio
The portfolio is designed to generate monthly cash flow to meet essential expenses during retirement. This is accomplished by combining the growth potential of equities with the security of bonds in a 35%/65% split. The portfolio invests in six underlying Russell pools, which are diversified by multiple asset classes, investment styles and money managers. It also provides investors with a complete solution that includes the continuous monitoring and the automatic rebalancing needed to ensure that the asset allocation and investment portfolio remain on track.
Goal
To provide income and some long–term capital growth primarily through investments and exposure to fixed income securities and to a lesser extent, foreign equity securities.
Portfolio Compostion
- 32% Core Plus Fixed Income Pool
- 33% Fixed Income Pool
- 12% Canadian Dividend Pool
- 7% US Equity Pool
- 8% Overseas Equity Pool
- 8% Global Equity Pool
Summary of Investment Portfolio
| Top 25 Holdings* | |
|---|---|
| As at June 30, 2009 | % of net asset value of the Portfolio | Russell Fixed Income Pool Series O Units | 32.4 |
| Russell Core Plus Fixed Income Pool Series O Units | 31.3 |
| Russell Canadian Equity Pool Series O Units | 11.7 |
| Russell Global Equity Pool Series O Units | 7.7 |
| Russell Overseas Equity Pool Series O Units | 7.7 |
| Russell US Equity Pool Series O Units | 7.7 |
| Net Asset Value (thousands of dollars) | $23,224 |
| * This Portfolio has only 6 holdings as at June 30, 2009 | |
| 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. The prospectus and other information about the underlying funds are available at www.sedar.com. | |
Inception date: March 2008
Date of first publish: August 25, 2009
