James Benedict Mitchell

Mr. James B.
Mitchell is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Russell Investments Ltd.
He is responsible for the portfolio management of fixed income funds.
He manages portfolios covering Global Credit, Global High Yield, Emerging Market Debt (Hard and Local Currency), European Fixed Income and Absolute Return.
He assumed his current role in 2007.
He joined the firm as a manager research analyst in 1999 and was promoted to senior research analyst in 2000.
In this role, Mr. Mitchell evaluated fixed income strategies and made recommendations on manager selection to Russell’s portfolio managers and consulting clients.
His coverage included Global fixed income, European fixed income and currency.
He started managing portfolios in 2004.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Mitchell was a senior strategist with Nomura International in London.
As a global strategist, he provided economic, fixed income and currency market analysis to Nomura’s trading, sales and capital markets groups.
He was also an editor of Nomura’s key economic and fixed income publications.
He 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.
He 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 received B.Sc.
in Economics from the University College London.