RIFAX
U.S. Strategic Equity Fund
RUSSELL INVESTMENT FUNDS
Expense ratio1
0.90%
Net assets2
$596.62M
Holdings2
432
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
14.43%

Investment objective & strategy

As of April 30, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The Fund seeks to provide long term capital growth.

Strategy. The Fund has a non-fundamental policy to invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the value of its net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities economically tied to the U.S. The Fund invests principally in common stocks of medium and large capitalization U.S. companies. The Fund defines large and medium capitalization companies as those companies represented by the Russell 1000 Index or with market capitalization within the capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Index. The Fund may employ long-short equity strategies pursuant to which it sells securities short. Equity securities in which the Fund invests include common stocks, preferred stocks, partnership interests and equity-equivalent securities or instruments whose values are based on common stocks, such as … The Fund has a non-fundamental policy to invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the value of its net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities economically tied to the U.S. The Fund invests principally in common stocks of medium and large capitalization U.S. companies. The Fund defines large and medium capitalization companies as those companies represented by the Russell 1000 Index or with market capitalization within the capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Index. The Fund may employ long-short equity strategies pursuant to which it sells securities short. Equity securities in which the Fund invests include common stocks, preferred stocks, partnership interests and equity-equivalent securities or instruments whose values are based on common stocks, such as futures contracts. In determining if a security is economically tied to the U.S., the Fund generally looks to the country of risk of the issuer as determined by a third party such as Bloomberg L.P. Russell Investment Management, LLC ( RIM ) provides or oversees the provision of all investment advisory and portfolio management services for the Fund. The Fund is advised by RIM and multiple money managers unaffiliated with RIM pursuant to a multi-style (e.g., growth, value, market-oriented, defensive and/or dynamic) and multi-manager approach. RIM may change the Fund's asset allocation at any time, including not allocating Fund assets to one or more money manager strategies. The Fund employs discretionary and non-discretionary money managers. The Funds discretionary money managers select the individual portfolio instruments for the assets assigned to them. The Funds non-discretionary money managers provide a model portfolio to RIM representing their investment recommendations, based upon which RIM purchases and sells securities for the Fund. RIM manages Fund assets not allocated to money manager strategies and utilizes quantitative and/or rules-based processes and qualitative analysis to assess Fund characteristics and invest in securities and instruments which provide the desired exposures. RIM may use strategies based on indexes. RIM also manages the portion of Fund assets for which the Fund's non-discretionary money managers provide model portfolios and the Fund's cash balances. The Fund usually, but not always, pursues a strategy to be fully invested by exposing all or a portion of its cash to the performance of appropriate markets by purchasing equity securities and/or derivatives, which typically include index futures contracts. The Fund may invest in derivative instruments and may use derivatives to take both long and short positions. The Fund may invest in securities of non-U.S. issuers by purchasing American Depositary Receipts ( ADRs ) or Global Depositary Receipts ( GDRs ). The Fund may also invest a portion of its assets in securities of companies, known as real estate investment trusts ( REITs ), that own and/or manage properties. The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to earn income. Please refer to the Investment Objective and Investment Strategies section in the Fund's Prospectus for further information.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
NVIDIA CORP $40.54M 6.79%
APPLE INC $33.72M 5.65%
MICROSOFT CORP $24.47M 4.10%
ALPHABET INC CL A $19.74M 3.31%
AMAZON.COM INC $18.83M 3.16%
U.S. Cash Management Fund $18.68M 3.13%
BROADCOM INC $14.41M 2.42%
META PLATFORMS INC CL A $12.28M 2.06%
ALPHABET INC CL C $11.03M 1.85%
MASTERCARD INC CL A $8.32M 1.39%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
75
Exited
52
Increased
139
Decreased
174
Unchanged
132

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of December 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. Sub-adviser
Russell Investment Management, LLC Adviser
Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc. Sub-adviser
Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC Sub-adviser
WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC Sub-adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of April 30, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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