Responsible investing is intelligent investing
Whether you're driven by personal or stakeholder values, aim to mitigate risk or need to comply with regulation - our approach to responsible investing integrates what matters most to you.
Four beliefs
A sound awareness of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and a robust process are integral for responsible investing. In our view, they can help deliver strong investment returns and meet objectives over the long-term.
BELIEF
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ESG factors
ESG factors impact security prices. These factors can vary by company, industry, and region and their importance can vary through time.
BELIEF
2
A deep understanding
A deep understanding of how ESG factors impact security prices is value-adding to a skilful investment process.
BELIEF
3
Embedding ESG
Embedding ESG considerations into a firm's culture and processes improves the likelihood of prolonged and successful investing.
BELIEF
4
Active ownership
Active ownership of securities is an effective tool for improving investment outcomes.
We believe responsible investing and performance can be complementary.
Our responsible investing approach aims to capture the right exposure without jeopardizing return.
Putting beliefs into practice
We incorporate responsible investing in our investment manager evaluation process, our portfolio management, our advisory services, and through implementing proprietary solutions to meet client needs.
Portfolio management
Managers and products are evaluated, ranked and surveyed one by one. As such, our portfolio managers select managers and products with full knowledge of their ESG metrics and how it is implemented.
ESG research and metrics
We research and report active manager ranks and metrics and have developed proprietary metrics for our direct investing capabilities.
Culture and processes
Sustainable practices are incorporated into our own business just as we ask our managers to do.
Active
ownership
We believe voting is a part of a share’s value-creation process. We are active owners of all our holdings and focus on specific ESG actions within our engagement activities.
Climate Change Policy
Russell Investments' policy is to research, measure, report and consider climate change risk and opportunities as integral parts of our investing practice, our active ownership, and our business operations. Our measures, reported metrics, and consideration of climate risk and opportunities are integrated into our sub-advisor research and selection, portfolio management, advice, proxy voting and shareholder engagement, and day-to-day business.
Related insights
REPORTS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Summary of the 2019 PRI Assessment of Russell Investments
2019 PRI Assessment Report
2019 Transparency Report
PRI Assessment Methodology
Policy documents
Climate change policyProxy voting
Proxy and engagement report
Engagement policy
Proxy voting disclosure
RESEARCH AND BEST PRACTICES
Whitepapers
2019 Annual ESG Manager Survey
Moving the climate focus beyond carbon and on to water
Materiality matters
Decarbonization 2.0
Our approach to managing reduced-carbon portfolios (Q&A)
Best practices
How we integrate ESGBest practices for responsible investing
Four beliefs
A sound awareness of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and a robust process are integral for responsible investing. In our view, they can help deliver strong investment returns and meet objectives over the long-term.
Belief
1
ESG Factors
ESG factors impact security prices. These factors can vary by company, industry, and region and their importance can vary through time.
Belief
2
A deep understanding
A deep understanding of how ESG factors impact security prices is value-adding to a skillful investment process.
Belief
3
Embedding ESG
Embedding ESG considerations into a firms culture and processes improves the likelihood of prolonged and successful investing.
Belief
4
Active ownership
Active ownership of securities is an effective tool for improving investment outcomes.
Putting beliefs into place
We incorporate responsible investing in our investment manager evaluation process, our portfolio management, our advisory services, and through implementing proprietary solutions to meet client needs.
Portfolio management
Managers and products are evaluated, ranked and surveyed one by one. As such, our portfolio managers select managers and products with full knowledge of their ESG metrics and how it is implemented.
ESG research and metrics
We research and report active manager ranks and metrics and have developed proprietary metrics for our direct investing capabilities.
Culture and processes
Sustainable practices are incorporated into our own business just as we ask our managers to do.
Active ownership
We believe voting is a part of a share’s value-creation process. We are active owners of all our holdings and focus on specific ESG actions within our engagement activities.
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