Jon Eggins is the Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management at Russell Investments. He leads the global team responsible for managing multi-asset, fixed income, and equity portfolios. This team is accountable for all aspects of portfolio management, including performance oversight, asset allocation, manager selection, portfolio construction, continuous monitoring, and client communications. In addition to his leadership responsibilities, Jon maintains portfolio management duties for global equity portfolios.

Previously, Jon served as Head of Global Equities, overseeing the firm’s global equity funds and separate accounts. Prior to that, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager with responsibility for Russell Investments’ U.S. Small Cap funds.

Earlier in his career, Jon was a Senior Research Analyst in the firm’s Investment Practice team, where he developed investment tools, analytics, and forums that support the firm’s investment process. He was instrumental in integrating strategist inputs into portfolio management and designing proprietary risk and portfolio management systems.

Jon began his career at Russell Investments in 2003 in Sydney, Australia, before relocating to the firm’s Seattle headquarters in 2008. As a Research Analyst, he evaluated U.S. equity managers and global tactical asset allocation strategies.

Jon has a strong academic background. He taught economics and econometrics at the University of New South Wales and served as a lecturer in quantitative techniques at the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA), where he was recognized as the Outstanding Lecturer in a Post-graduate Program in 2007. His collaborative research on stock market index construction and manager performance evaluation has been published in both practitioner and academic journals.