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KEY BENEFITS TO OUR RESPONSIBLE INVESTING APPROACH
We reflect what matters most to you and your investment goals through a robust, integrated process.
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
We believe that responsible investing is intelligent investing. As a result, we have integrated material environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into those relevant investment practices, including research, portfolio management and active ownership.
In addition, our investment experts are well-versed in responsible investing across the globe. We continue to enhance our process to embrace responsible investing at Russell Investments.
BEYOND THE STANDARD
Our investment approach identifies asset characteristics that are most relevant to your investment needs. We can focus on exposures that are not only sustainable but also material to your investments, enabling you to go beyond the standard.
This results in innovative best practice solutions designed to help you reach your investment goals.
ACTIVELY EVOLVING
We are committed to adapting our approach to be at the forefront of the changing global landscape. We proactively enhance our practices to align with client needs, regulatory changes and market conditions, constantly evolving to bring market-leading solutions.
We strive to employ a firmwide, holistic, ESG-integrated approach
Active management
Manager ranks, portfolio construction, sustainability risk management
Research
Strategy development, metrics and reporting, industry analysis and climate change
Culture and process
Corporate values, diversity, equity and inclusion, sustainability work practices and community involvement
Stewardship
Proxy voting, engagement and collaborative initiatives
Russell Investments is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader 2022 by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA).
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Designing forward-thinking, sophisticated responsible investment solutions that reflect what matters most to you and your investment goals.
DOING WELL WHILE DOING GOOD
Development of portfolios with more optimal responsible investing exposure. This includes portfolios which incorporate allocations to higher material ESG scores or to impact investing.
ESG-THEMED STRATEGIES
If you are seeking a specific portfolio outcome, our team can work with you to implement ESG-focused investment strategies, such as decarbonisation or social capital, to pursue your desired objective.
MANAGING EXCLUSIONS
We aim to can ensure that required and requested portfolio exclusions are managed to minimise unintended exposures while still aligning to investment objectives.
FEATURED FUND
Sustainable Global Shares Fund
Russell Investments Sustainable Global Shares Fund provides investors with a highly diversified, core global equity solution that supports the management of climate change risk and the transition to a low carbon economy.
RESPONSIBLE INVESTING RESOURCES
Insights and reports
Why ESG matters to investors and investing
We believe investing should have sustainable practices embedded within a strategy—with sustainable performance as a primary outcome objective. Investors can incorporate ESG into their investments in a variety of ways, and all of them can accomplish the duality of values and value.
2020 ESG manager survey: Turning up the volume
Have ESG factors increased or decreased in importance? Our survey of active managers assesses the integration of ESG considerations in investment processes.
How investors can practically incorporate more ESG into their portfolios
Many investors acknowledge and believe in why ESG investing is important and may also understand what ESG incorporation methods are out there. But now the real struggle is how do you begin to incorporate ESG into your portfolio?
Reports and research
From black to blue: Moving the climate focus beyond carbon and on to water
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Materiality matters: Targeting the ESG issues that impact performance - the material ESG score
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Climate change and investment portfolios Part II: Addressing the carbon exposure of your investments
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