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Your portfolio is exposed to risk. What do you do? Where do you turn for strategies to mitigate risk and position for growth?
Manage exposures & mitigate risk
With market volatility, increased interest rates and inflation, your portfolios are exposed to more risks than ever before.
We work with clients to tackle these issues every day - helping organizations achieve their investment objectives and providing tools to buffer portfolios from market challenges. Here, our specialists share their insights on current challenges as well as ideas on the approaches that could support portfolios for whatever lies ahead.
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Transition management
Navigating Market Timing in 2026
Plan your 2026 portfolio moves with confidence. Explore key trading dates when volatility and liquidity conditions may influence execution quality.

- View the 2026 Institutional Trading Calendar
- Transition Management Explained
- Case study: A $3.5B Fixed Income ETF Transition is Executed Amid Market Volatility
- Case study: Complex multiple-fund merger
- Case study: Internal resource constraints when client merges funds
- De-risking? Get your transition management plan in place first
- T+1 settlement: Is your FX trading impacted with the equity settlement shift to T+1?
- Real-time risk exposure report
- Fixed income transitions: A specialist approach
- Best practice for fixed income restructures
Interim asset management
Interim management: What's the cost in waiting?
When making fundamental changes to an investment portfolio, it's not only the cost of the change that needs to be factored, but also the cost in waiting for those changes to be implemented.

Overlay services
Learn three key reasons behind the rising interest in overlay services—and how they can support your investment goals.
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- The intersection of customization and capabilities
- Case study: Reducing cost of custom-beta portfolio and addressing cash drag
- Case study: METRiQ-Portfolio Diagnostic
- What the New Tax Bill Means for Endowments and Foundations
- 5 Ways an Overlay Can Smooth Out a Rocky Market
- Case study: Supporting an endowment's self-directed work
- Case study: Cash equitization
- Futures, ETFs, or physicals: How to choose the right implementation instrument
- Demystifying derivatives
- Portable alpha: Divorcing and remarrying alpha and beta
- LDI: Our approach to the design, construction, and management of liability-hedging portfolios for U.S. DB plans
- The power of an Overlay program: 13 short case studies
Currency management
Strategic currency hedging considerations for U.S. investors
Learn about the effective currency hedging strategies to help you make informed decisions regarding your investment strategies and asset allocations.
Trading & execution
Discover Russell Investments’ approach to optimizing trade execution—leveraging deep liquidity, advanced algorithms, and innovative strategies to reduce costs and enhance performance.
- The holiday trading effect: Timing, liquidity and investor impact
- Why more asset managers are outsourcing or co-sourcing trading
- CPS and Trading 2024 Year-in-Review
- The big shifts: Street-level insights from the trading desk
- T+1 settlement: Is your FX trading impacted with the equity settlement shift to T+1?
- Fixed income trading evolution
- How do clients rate their outsourced trading providers?
Completion portfolios
Equity Factor Report - 2025 Q4: Value outperformance continues
Explore the full Q4 Equity Factor Report for detailed insights, including this quarter’s Spotlight on Russell Factor Portfolios built on stylized Growth and Value universes.

- Case study: ESG Beta Completion Portfolio
- Equity factor report - 2025 Q3: Value outperformance
- Equity Factor Report - 2025 Q2: Reversal Reversed
- Equity Factor Report - 2025 Q1: The reversal
- Client case study – Completion portfolios: How can a completion portfolio help enhance outcomes at the total-portfolio level?
Enhanced Portfolio Implementation
Case study – Model implementation: What is it and how can it help?
Discover how a large healthcare system with multiple investment pools achieved significant cost savings and enhanced portfolio control through Russell Investments' model implementation, featuring custom screens, reduced trades, improved portfolio control and analytics.
- Case study: Enhanced portfolio implementation helps lower costs and simplify oversight for $2B equity portfolios
- Case study: Enhanced portfolio implementation - Seeking to improve and enhance operational efficiency and help in maximizing alpha preservation
- Case study: METRiQ-Portfolio Diagnostic
- Is a total portfolio approach right for your organization?
CUSTOMIZED PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS
Gain greater portfolio control, limit costs, reduce risk, and enhance returns
Investment teams face significant pressure – a squeeze on fee budgets, scrutiny of governance approaches, and challenging market conditions – all driving increased demand for agile processes and a need to reach further globally to access new sources of return.
Combine your internal resources with our global implementation services capabilities. Designed to support in-house investment teams, we have a suite of services that can be customized in combination or delivered as discreet solutions to help you tackle your investment challenges.
Take a look into our capabilities and see how we can help you.
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