Global Real Estate Securities Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-25
C000004271 — Global Real Estate Securities Fund. Global (incl. US) Real Estate · $417.54M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000004271 Fund Overview
Global Real Estate Securities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Russell Investment CO, categorised as Global (incl. US) Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Russell Investment CO
- Category: Global (incl. US) Real Estate
- Assets under management: $417.54M
- SEC CIK: 0000351601
- SEC series ID: S000001579
- Share class ID: C000004271
C000004271 Investment Objective and Strategy
Global Real Estate Securities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Russell Investment CO.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to provide current income and long term capital growth.
Principal investment 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 real estate securities. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by concentrating its investments in equity securities of real estate companies economically tied to a number of countries around the world, including the U.S., in a globally diversified manner. The Fund invests principally in securities of companies, known as real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other REIT-like entities that own interests in real estate or real estate-related loans. The Fund may also invest in equity securities of other types of real estate-related companies. A portion of the Funds securities are denominated in foreign currencies and are typically held outside the U.S.
The Fund may invest a portion of its assets in equity securities of companies that are located in emerging markets. The Fund considers emerging market countries to include every country in the world except Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Russell Investment Management, LLC (RIM) provides or oversees the provision of all investment advisory and portfolio management services for the Fund. The Funds assets are managed by RIM and multiple money managers unaffiliated with RIM pursuant to a multi-manager approach. 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 Funds 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 certain real estate securities or, in certain circumstances, broad global equity markets by purchasing equity securities and/or derivatives, which typically include index futures contracts and swaps. The Fund may invest in derivative instruments and may use derivatives to take both long and short positions. The Fund may enter into spot or forward currency contracts to facilitate settlement of securities transactions. The Fund may invest in large, medium or small capitalization companies. Please refer to the Investment Objective and Investment Strategies section in the Fund's Prospectus for further information.
C000004271 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Global Real Estate Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Welltower Inc | 7.88% |
| Prologis Inc | 5.24% |
| Equinix Inc | 4.54% |
| Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.63% |
| Russell Investments Trust Company Commingled Employee Benefit Funds Trust-U.S. Cash Management Fund | 3.16% |
| Public Storage | 2.76% |
| Simon Property Group Inc | 2.76% |
| Goodman Group | 2.32% |
| Realty Income Corp | 2.04% |
| Ventas Inc | 2.04% |
C000004271 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Global Real Estate Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.2% |
C000004271 Costs and Fees
C000004271 costs about $135 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.35%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.39%
- Portfolio turnover: 67%
- Brokerage commissions: 5.42 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000004271 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, Global Real Estate Securities Fund had net inflows of $1.89M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$2.25M |
| 2026-03 | −$3.39M |
| 2026-02 | −$3.40M |
| 2026-01 | $252.16K |
| 2025-12 | $5.72M |
| 2025-11 | $770.34K |
C000004271 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Global Real Estate Securities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000004271 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Global Real Estate Securities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-22
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-09
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-10
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.