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HOW CAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT OUTSOURCING HELP YOU?

OCIO helps you optimize your investment program

Deepen your resources

Outsourcing your investments will add depth and continuity, allowing you to focus on the decisions most critical to your organisation.

Respond more rapidly in a crisis

An outsourced CIO partnership ensures your portfolio is monitored around the clock and can respond rapidly in a crisis.

Lower your investment costs

An OCIO partner can use their scale, leveraging in-house capabilities at cost and negotiating more competitive sub-manager rates.

Improve access to the best ideas

The right partner can significantly broaden the range of investable opportunities, robustly assessing and accessing a deeper pool of possibilities.

KEY ASPECTS OF OUR OUTSOURCED CIO APPROACH

Our role: helping you achieve your investment goals

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Uniquely yours

We don't take a cookie-cutter approach with your investment program. Dedicating the time to truly understand you, your challenges and your beliefs ensures our solution is ideally suited to your needs.

Industry expertise

Industry expertise

This isn't our first rodeo. Your dedicated team will include seasoned professionals who have helped organisations like yours achieve their investment goals. They'll hit the ground running with a deep understanding of the investment challenges faced by your industry.

Global access

Global access

A world of opportunities, brought to your door. Our globally-connected network of investment professionals searches for the best investments and puts them to work for you. Every specialist integrates with our global investment platform, drawing on sophisticated modeling tools and years of research and expertise.

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What sets our investment outsourcing approach apart?

OCIO is what we do. The core focus of our global institutional investment business. We have been honing our craft for more than 40 years, a level of commitment unmatched by any other organization. Every capability, we have developed was solely designed to help our clients, people like you, reach their goals.

Public & private mastery

There is a world of opportunities well beyond those listed on public markets. Unlike other firms, we bring a mastery across both public and private assets leveraging our strategic partnerships and capabilities to ensure you have full access. As well as the technology to see how it all comes together with aggregated exposures and risks.

Team synergy

Any investment program is fundamentally a team effort. More important than the team's size is the team's cohesion, the investment experience, and the experience of working together. Our investment professionals bring 18+ years in the industry and average more than a decade working together.

Total portfolio intelligence

Knowing your exposure is the critical first step in any crisis. Yet, many competitors fall at the first hurdle, struggling to aggregate positions from multiple underlying managers. In contrast, we know how you are positioned, and so will you with complete transparency across your entire investment portfolio, from strategy-level to security, and with the capability to respond in real-time.

$962B

Global assets under advice

$369.1b

Global assets under management

1980

When our OCIO journey began

#4

Global OCIO ranking by assets¹

Global AUA as of 12/31/2024

Global AUM As of 3/31/2025

AWARDS

Russell Investments has been globally recognized for excellence in the investment industry

We have a proven track record in investment implementation, with scale, client satisfaction, innovative solutions and more than 40 years of experience.

A top global manager of outsourced assets

For the 13th year in a row (2012-2024), Russell Investments was ranked as a top global manager of institutional outsourced assets under management (AUM) from its fully discretionary clients in CIO Magazine’s annual “Outsourced-Chief Investments Officer (OCIO) Survey.” Notably, in CIO’s “2024 OCIO Survey”, which included 26 firms, Russell Investments placed first among the global managers in Healthcare and in the top 10 for Defined Benefit and 401(k), 403(b) or other DC outsourced assets (as of December 31, 2023).1

1A Top Global Manager of Outsourced Assets (CIO): The 2012-2024 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Magazine OCIO survey ranking is based on global outsourced assets under management (AUM) from fully discretionary clients, using quantitative data reported as of December 31 of the previous calendar year. The survey includes a varied number of firms, differentiated by year: 2024 (26 firms), 2023 (47), 2022 (45), 2021 (47), 2020 (50), 2019 (35), 2018 (34), 2017 (53), 2016 (53), 2015 (49), 2014 (36), 2013 (29), and 2012 (24). We paid this publication a fee for licensing usage and rights of the award logo/badge.

Russell Investments' ownership is composed of a majority stake held by funds managed by TA Associates Management, L.P., with a significant minority stake held by funds managed by Reverence Capital Partners, L.P. Certain of Russell Investments' employees and Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC also hold minority, non-controlling, ownership stakes.

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