Filed Pursuant to Rule 485(b) 
Registration No.  33-18030
          811-05371


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM N-1A


REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
   X         
Pre-Effective Amendment No.  ____
  ___
Post-Effective Amendment No.   53
   X       
 
and
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
   X    
Amendment No.    56
   X            
 
   
  RUSSELL INVESTMENT FUNDS
                                 (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
1301 Second Avenue, 18th Floor, Seattle, Washington                                     98101
                         (Address of Principal Executive Office)                                    (ZIP Code)
 
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including area code: 206/505-7877

 
Mary Beth Rhoden Albaneze, Esq.
Associate General Counsel 
Russell Investment Funds
1301 Second Avenue, 18th Floor
Seattle, Washington 98101
206-505-4846
 
John V. O’Hanlon, Esq.
Dechert LLP
One International Place, 40th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
617-728-7100
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed public offering: As soon as practical after the effective date of the Registration Statement.

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)

(     )
     immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
( X )
     on May 1, 2014 pursuant to paragraph (b)
(     )
     60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
(       )
     on __________________, pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
(     )
     75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
(     )
     on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485.
        If appropriate, check the following box:
( X )
     this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a
     previously filed post-effective amendment.


 
 
 

PART A, PART B and PART C

The Registrant hereby incorporates in its entirety each of Part A, Part B and Part C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 52 to Registration Nos. 33-18030 and 811-05371 into, and hereby designates each such Part as constituting in its entirety Part A, Part B and Part C, respectively, of Post-Effective Amendment No. 53 to Registration Nos. 33-18030 and 811-05371.  This Post-Effective Amendment No. 53 is being filed to extend the effective date of previously filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 52.  The Registrant’s updated Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information and Other Information will be filed pursuant to Rule 485(b) on or before May 1, 2014.


 
 
 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant, Russell Investment Funds, certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) of the Securities Act of 1933.   The Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 53 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereto duly authorized, in the City of Seattle, and State of Washington, on this 3rd   day of April, 2014.


                        RUSSELL INVESTMENT FUNDS
                      Registrant
 

                      By:                          *                                                     
                         Sandra Cavanaugh, President
 
/s/ Jessica Gates                                                                          
* By Jessica Gates
Attorney-in-fact
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April 3, 2014.
 
Signatures
Signatures
 
                               *                                                  
Sandra Cavanaugh, Trustee, President and
Chief Executive Officer
                               *                                         
Mark E. Swanson, Treasurer, in his
capacity as Chief Accounting Officer
 
                               *                                
Thaddas L. Alston, Trustee
 
                               *                                          
Kristianne Blake, Trustee 
 
                               *                                               
Cheryl Burgermeister, Trustee
 
                               *                                           
Daniel P. Connealy, Trustee 
 
                               *                            
Katherine W. Krysty, Trustee
                               *                             
Raymond P. Tennison, Jr., Trustee 
 
                             *                             
Jack R. Thompson, Trustee
 
 
  /s/ Jessica Gates              
*By Jessica Gates
 Attorney-in-fact
 
 
 
 
 
*   Executed pursuant to powers of attorney filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 52 to Registration Statement Nos. 33-18030 and 811-05371.






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