About Russell

Every effort is about financial security.

At Russell, our purpose is improving financial security for people.

We take that purpose seriously everyday. So we provide strategic advice and implementation to institutional investors. We create state-of-the-art performance benchmarks, in the form of our Russell Indexes. And we help individuals more confidently prepare for retirement through a range of objectively researched, institutional-quality mutual funds.

Financial security. It makes sense to us. We're pretty sure it’s what you care about as well.

Global alliances

We deliver our investment programs by joining forces with some of the leading financial services organizations throughout the world.

If you're not already consulting a financial professional, let us refer you to one in your area who is familiar with Russell.

Our consulting and investment clients include:²

Alcoa
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
Barclays Bank
BHP Billiton
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust
Boeing
Caterpillar
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
General Motors
Public School & Educational Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri
Toyota Motor Pension Fund

Russell by the numbers *

  • Founded in 1936
  • $140 billion in assets under management †
  • Creator of the Russell Global Indexes, including the Russell 2000® Index
  • More than 2,900 institutional clients and millions of individual shareholders in 46 countries
  • Rated #1 in Money Manager Research ¹
  • 5,200 investment products scrutinized annually
  • Fewer than 3% of researched money managers make it into our funds
  • More than 400 investment funds
  • Some 560 independent distribution partners in 29 countries
  • Approximately 1,750 associates in more than 20 offices worldwide

Industry leaders depend on us.

Many of the world's leading organizations depend on our expertise to help build long-term financial security for their business and their employees. We design investment plans of all sizes to suit each of our client's particular needs.

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Our timeline of innovation

Russell's timeline of innovation

† As of 06/30/10

* As of 12/31/09

¹ Russell Investments holds the largest market share of the global manager-of-managers market which includes "collective investment funds or institutional separate accounts with assets managed as segregated accounts by multiple underlying managers." The Cerulli Report™, Quantitative Update: Global Multimanager Product, 2008.

² U.S. and non-U.S. clients on this representative list were selected from Russell Investments' complete client roster from those who have given permission to publish their names (as of 4/09). U.S. publicly-held companies listed are Russell clients that appear on the 2008 Fortune 100 list. The non-public company client and endowment/foundation client are each those with the highest total assets. Non-U.S. clients listed represent those with the highest total assets in each of the following regions: Austral-Asia, Japan and Europe. Performance-based data was not used in selecting listed clients.

The identification of the clients listed does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of Russell's products or services by such client.

While the manager selection process utilized for Russell Funds, is similar to the guidance and institutional fund management discipline that Russell provides to the clients listed, those clients have not invested in Russell Funds.