James Mitchell

James Mitchell is a senior portfolio manager in global fixed income for Russell Investments. Based in London, James is responsible for the portfolio management of fixed income funds. James manages portfolios covering Global Credit, Global High Yield, Emerging Market Debt (Hard and Local Currency), European Fixed Income and Absolute Return. He assumed this role in 2007. In 2013 Russell won the Lipper Fund award for “Best Large Bond Group” over 3 years in Europe. James joined Russell as a manager research analyst in 1999 and was promoted to senior research analyst in 2000. In this role James evaluated fixed income strategies and made recommendations on manager selection to Russell’s portfolio managers and consulting clients. James’ coverage included Global fixed income, European fixed income and currency. He started managing portfolios in 2004. Prior to joining Russell, James was a senior strategist with Nomura International in London. As a global strategist, James provided economic, fixed income and currency market analysis to Nomura’s trading, sales, and capital markets groups. James was also an editor of Nomura’s key economic and fixed income publications. James began his career in finance when he joined Deutsche Bank in 1989. He was based in London and spent eight years in the research department where he was a senior fixed income and currency strategist. James generated top down and bottom-up trade ideas for traders and clients and was co-editor of Deutsche Bank’s flagship fixed income strategy publication. He has completed B.Sc., Economics in London University and he is a CFA Charterholder.