Russell taps Fiera to sub-advise

Fiera Capital Corporation has been selected by Russell Investments Canada Limited and U.K. based Russell Investments Company II PLC to sub-advise, respectively, the recently launched Russell Focused Global Equity Pool and the existing Russell Global Defensive Equity Fund.

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Fiera Capital is the first Quebec-based asset manager on a Canadian Russell platform as well as the first Canadian firm tapped to manage one of Russell’s global equity investment strategies on its Canadian platform.

This partnership follows Fiera’s growing institutional footprint in the U.S, in addition to the acquisitions of two prominent wealth management firms, based in Los Angeles and New York City respectively, on October 31, 2013.

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