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
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
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
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