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Tax Management
Your words matter! Especially when it comes to TAXES.
Russell Investments has crossed an important milestone with our Tax-Managed Model Strategies. We now have a 15+ year track record to talk about. One thing is very apparent: taxes are hard and the differences between approaches vary wildly.
Alternative Investments
Why invest in real estate?
Anyone who has purchased a home is a real estate investor — but there’s a big difference between taking on a mortgage and investing in office buildings, malls or industrial parks. In this blog, I explain the basics of real estate investing, the potential benefits, and the ways that individuals can add real estate exposure to their portfolio.
Alternative Investments
Spring training for alternatives investors
A primary goal of spring training is getting the players back to basics by focusing on the fundamentals of the game. By doing so, the players ensure they are ready to go when the season begins. In honor of spring training, I’d like to take investors back to the basics and fundamentals of alternative investments (or alts).
Tax Management
2018 Capital Gain Distributions: Won’t get fooled again
Capital gain distributions are something that investors often don’t pay attention to until late in the fourth quarter. But several events are coming together to make the tracking and monitoring of capital gain distributions a year-round exercise.
Alternative Investments
3 Reasons to Consider Infrastructure Investment
Russell Investments Client Portfolio Manager Darren Spencer makes the case for investing in infrastructure.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Behavioral Financial Markets
The analytical tools derived from behavioral finance’s more realistic representation of financial markets and human behavior will likely replace the wealth-limiting MPT tools in use today.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: New Frontiers of Risk
One modern portfolio theory (MPT) pillar that is unquestionably broken is the use of volatility, specifically standard deviation, as a measure of risk.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: The Rise and Fall of MPT
After the dust settles, virtually nothing of modern portfolio theory (MPT) will remain, asserts C. Thomas Howard and Jason Voss, CFA.
Active/Passive Management
Debunking Active Management Myths: Part 2
Most investors appear to be interpreting the struggles of large cap U.S. equity funds as a failure of active management in general. Russell Investments begs to differ.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Rejecting a Broken 1970's Model
If enough mandates are added, a potential positive alpha is transformed into an actual negative alpha. So what can be done to launch an active equity renaissance?