Institutional Investment Strategies

For investment solutions that aim to deliver your desired outcomes, access our innovative range of multi-asset products and services to complete your portfolio needs.

Each of these strategies is an effective investment tool in its own right. When individual investments are carefully combined to create a diversified, outcome-oriented, multi-asset institutional investment program, their true potential is unlocked.

Asset classes

Alternative Investments

We work tirelessly to ensure we identify the most appropriate managers for the respective fund investment objective. We then combine them and use dynamic implementation techniques to effectively and efficiently manage targeted strategy exposures. Our approach provides flexibility and highly opportunistic portfolio management.

Equities

Canadian and U.S. equity investments invest, respectively, in shares of Canadian companies and equity securities of U.S. companies. Global, international and emerging markets equity investments invest in stocks of developed countries, and of companies located outside of Canada and the U.S.

Fixed Income

Fixed income invests in debt instruments that provide a return in the form of fixed periodic payments and the eventual return of principal at maturity.

Liability-Driven Investments

These are multi-manager investments aimed at providing investors with the potential to reduce DB pension-funded status volatility through exposure to high-quality, mostly corporate bonds that closely match those found in discount curves used to value Canadian pension liabilities.

Multi-Asset

Multi-asset investments offer a convenient way for investors to diversify a portfolio by blending multiple asset classes together with a view to capturing a balance between their characteristics in line with the individual client’s desired outcomes.

Listed Real Assets

Our real assets are structured to expose institutional investors to core real assets through an actively managed portfolio.

Exploring Alternatives

Private markets
Hedge funds
Real estate
Infrastructure
Commodities

Separate accounts

Depending upon the size of your organization, we may be able to offer you a fully-customized approach. This includes your own dedicated Russell Investments portfolio manager, who will be with you every step of the way along with access to a complete team of experts to lean on.

Our separate account solution is designed to benefit our clients. Russell Investments' multi-style, multi-manager investment process continuously evolves as the markets change and technology develops.

Enhanced diversification and fiduciary oversight

Based upon one of the world's largest investment manager research efforts, our investment process delivers Russell Investment's best ideas in convenient solutions. This exhaustive manager research effort provides clients with a significant information advantage and also places them in an improved fiduciary position. By combining premier investment managers using different investment approaches, our investment process also provides additional risk management and diversification.

Professional investment staff providing strategic advice

Delivering investment results in line with long-term objectives requires constant attention to all of the details of investment implementation. Expertise and experience in specialized areas of fund management is imperative for success. Russell Investments will dedicate a team of investment professionals led by a portfolio manager as well as a dedicated client service team who are all focused on the management and optimization of your investment program.

Economies of scale managing total investment cost

A critical component of our expertise is the ability to manage the total cost of fund management and investment implementation. With our experience in managing client assets, we have built the infrastructure and expertise to manage portfolios in a cost-effective manner.

When it comes to helping you achieve your goals, we believe that smart decisions are driven by strong evidence. So we take an evidence-driven approach, regularly inspecting and analyzing the key factors affecting your desired outcomes, and creating opportunities and strategies to help reach them.

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