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In this year’s Survey, questions were developed around the following perspectives: assessing the demand for alternative investments, defining barriers to investing in alternatives, understanding key influencers and gaining insight into key implementation issues. VIEW SUMMARY

To anyone outside the life insurance and pensions industry, the title of this piece might seem bizarre: unprecedented levels of debt have been issued by the UK government in recent times. Yet the level of debt issuance, particularly longer-dated and inflation linked debt, has not kept pace with the VIEW SUMMARY

The Russell Investments’ 2012 Global Survey on Alternative Investing was developed to assess the primary factors that influence institutional investors as they evaluate and make decisions about alternative investments, within the context of their objectives for their institutions. VIEW SUMMARY

The Russell OpenWorld® fund range includes a series of thematic funds that focus on areas expected to experience sustained growth due to increased demand for basic products and services like food, commodities, energy and transportation. One such area is listed infrastructure. VIEW SUMMARY

Russell Investments present an overview of their commission recapture programme, outlining how it can provide pension funds with significant commission savings and act as a robust governance tool. VIEW SUMMARY

Asset owners are familiar with the complexities of making changes to their assets, such as when switching investment managers or rebalancing activities resulting from an asset/liability study. VIEW SUMMARY

A new frontier of market development brings exciting opportunities reminiscent of those offered by emerging markets during much of the 1980s and 1990s. These fledgling emerging markets have a relatively low correlation with global peers, offer high growth potential and, currently, attractively low VIEW SUMMARY

Founded in 1989 by Martin Mack and Herwig Weise in Hamburg, M&W have a focused absolute return approach. Equal and co-owners of the firm, Mack and Weise are supported by 3 other investment professionals who together manage just over €300 million. These assets are all global and multi-asset in nature VIEW SUMMARY

We successfully launched the OpenWorld Global Opportunistic Listed Property, on 29th July 2009. For this fund, Russell has hired a very experienced and specialised listed property team within CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. VIEW SUMMARY

Infrastructure assets are long-term, capital intensive investments that serve the community through the provision of essential community services. Good infrastructure provides key economic services efficiently, improves the competitiveness of and generates high productivity for the economy. VIEW SUMMARY