Russell's transition management services earns top rankings from two industry surveys June 5, 2008 We are proud to have attained several industry-leading rankings in the 2008 transition management surveys sponsored by Plan Sponsor magazine and Global Investor magazine. Russell won "Best in Class" awards in all 4 categories in the Plan Sponsor transition management survey. We also received "Top Marks" in every category — for the fourth year in a row — in the transition management survey conducted by Global Investor magazine. In total, Russell's transition management team has received more than 135 industry awards over the past three years. "Russell's transition management team is uniquely prepared to handle the challenges that lie ahead in 2008," said David Rothenberg, managing director. "We are honored that those who are using this service — corporate and public, defined benefit and defined contribution, endowments as well as sovereign wealth funds — have once again recognized Russell for excellence in all aspects of transition management." For more than twenty-five years, Russell has been in the forefront of improving and innovating transition management practices and techniques, leading the development of the T Standard as an objective performance measurement to aid clients in assessing a transition manager's performance. Russell continues to set the mark for delivering on T Standard-compliance investment performance of assets in transition. Transition management is one of a number of services offered by Russell to help clients improve their net investment returns by providing efficient implementation tools to multi-manager portfolios. Other services include overlay services, commission management, agency currency execution, return-enhancing derivatives strategies (such as portable alpha) and short term investment funds. Russell's portfolio management and transition services teams operate worldwide with offices in Tacoma, London and Sydney. For your next transition, contact Bill or Gerry:   West Coast   East Coast Bill Borland Director 866-926-5934 Gerry Lillis Director 866-459-4128 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. USI-0822			Contact us West Coast contact Bill Borland Director 866-926-5934 East Coast contact Gerry Lillis Director 866-459-4128   Related information View the survey results from PLANSPONSOR (PDF) Understanding the T Standard Transition best practices Printer friendly version of this page