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About Russell OpenWorld^®

It is becoming more challenging to find the next best idea. Investors increasingly wish to reflect macro themes into their portfolios and are demanding more specialist and differentiated products. The enormous growth in providers and the predominance of multi-asset firms make identification and access to superior specialists more difficult. This new single manager platform helps investors overcome these challenges.

Key features

Innovative, highly specialist, single manager product: Gain access to emerging asset classes and investment approaches, for example climate change, specific emerging markets - such as India or Middle East - and infrastructure.

High conviction boutique managers which can be difficult to access: We specifically target early stage, high-alpha boutiques, where the focus on returns is without distraction and investor motivation is extremely high. We are often one of the first investors in a manager or a specific strategy, a practice which can offer our clients a significant premium.

Performance fees: Managers will mostly be hired on a performance fee with modest fixed costs, providing a full alignment with the clients' interests.

Why this platform?

Manager research and selection has been at the core of Russell's investment approach since 1969. Russell OpenWorld ^® continues our successful business model of bringing high quality, third-party fund managers to a broad client base through Russell's unique global resources and experience in manager research. This platform brings you:

Early identification and access to superior managers: Detecting boutique managers and innovative strategies early is vital. The real high conviction specialist boutiques tend to be small, highly focused firms with little international presence or distribution. Russell's global manager research effort has been targeting these managers and the individuals at these organisations for some time. This contact enables us to secure the often limited capacity within these specialists.

Governance and control: Each fund will benefit from Russell's robust investment and operational due diligence process when accessing the manager, and ongoing monitoring and replacement when necessary in order to preserve the value proposition of the fund.

Idea generation: Product development will be highly dynamic and new ideas coming from the insights of our Capital Markets and Manager Research teams will be reflected on the platform efficiently and quickly.

Convenience: This portal enables you to diversify your assets across many more specialist managers than you would be able to if you had to find, contract and manage them yourselves.

• Read more in the OpenWorld ^® brochure  (PDF 1.1MB)