Color matching between Ai and Ae

I've been trying to recreate some simple elements from an Illustrator document in After Effects, but I can't get the colors to match. I've read up on setting color profiles and to the best of my knowledge I set them correctly (but I'm probably missing something).
I set the illustrator document to Adobe RGB (Edit > assign profile) and i set after effects to the same (file > project settings).
But i still can't get the colors to match. Just so you know I'm setting the colors using the RGB values from illustrator.
What am I missing?

Don't assign any profiles at all, just work in normal RGB mode. The rest may simply relate to a hopelessly mis-tweaked monitor or a wrong monitor profile and the apps dealing different with that part.
Mylenium

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