Welcome to the new Achieve magazine – redesigned following your feedback.

Russell has been providing Australians with expertise in investment and superannuation for more than 20 years. Over this time, we’ve guided investors through rising markets, falling markets and times of uncertainty. Our many years of experience have taught us to adopt a long-term focus on wealth creation and to prepare our portfolios to handle all manner of market conditions. With our experience on your side, your super is in good hands.

At Russell we recognise that many Australians are confused about superannuation so we are always looking for new ways to make managing your superannuation easy and convenient. Some recent initiatives include BPAY^® and the ANZ Prime Cash Management Account investment option for Russell Private Active Pension account holders.

We have started producing educational webcasts that take you through strategies to build your savings for retirement and will be producing our Annual Report online to continue doing our bit for the environment.

Read on for more details about these enhancements along with some great articles on dealing with market volatility, the benefits of a ‘Transition to Retirement’ strategy and other super news and updates.

Decades of experience have taught us that long-term investment success largely depends on having the discipline to stay on course and not reacting to short-term market movements. Volatile periods are a normal part of investing and a well-diversified investment strategy is the best approach to meeting your long-term goals for retirement.

If you would like more information on how to manage your financial security in volatile markets, we have set up an online toolkit to do just that. View the toolkit here.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Achieve.

Alan Schoenheimer
Chief Executive, Asia Pacific
Russell Investments