Russell Investments introduces the Customised Portfolio Services

Russell Investments' Customised Portfolio Services extends the in-house resources of superannuation and investment funds to help reduce investment management costs, enhance returns, access discrete factor exposures more precisely and reduce portfolio risks.

Examples of how we have helped clients:

* Saved client 22bps in trading fees since inception¹
* £8.4m generated by strategy in 2014
* 15 currencies managed through FX overlay

Russell Investments has been successfully managing multi-asset portfolios since 1980 and the Customised Portfolio Services draws on Russell Investments' full range of multi-asset capabilities. Today, clients have trusted us to manage $321.5 billion² of their assets globally. Over this time, we have built up expertise, scale and capabilities in each of five core areas needed to successfully design, construct and manage global multi-asset portfolios - these are capital market insights, asset allocation, manager research, factor exposures and portfolio implementation.

¹For the period May 2014 to December 2015
²As at 31 March 2016, in AUD