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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is the largest institutional fund management company in the world with $1.9 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2008. We were founded in 1978 as the asset management division of State Street Bank and Trust Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of State Street Corporation and one of the world’s largest global custodians. Our leadership in financial services permits us to focus on delivering competitive investment strategies and integrated solutions to our clients worldwide, across virtually every asset class, capitalization range, region, and style.
We are committed to our clients and to ensuring that a partnership is created and preserved. This focus translates to a solutions-based approach in providing clients with the best research, technology and investment options – providing a wide breadth of products that can be customized based on the diverse goals of our client base. Our clients include corporations, public funds, endowments and foundations and third party distributors.
Size and Presence
SSgA has significant trading and portfolio management capabilities that only size and a global presence can provide. For example, our position as both the world’s largest manager of institutional assets and one of the world’s largest custodians gives us enormous liquidity, which we pass on to our clients in the form of low-cost trading solutions. In addition, we have significant expertise managing quantitative equity strategies. We have a significant number portfolio managers located both in Boston and in investment centers around the world. These portfolio management teams are supported by a vast infrastructure that includes information technology, trading, operations, and our Advanced Research Center (ARC). The ARC is dedicated research team staffed with close to 40 highly trained quantitative researchers who are continually looking for new ways to generate alpha and construct portfolios.
Heritage as an Innovator
SSgA’s development from our index roots to today’s pioneering work in alpha generation is marked by our dedication to solid research and testing. Academic work was a strong influence on our design of the industry’s first passive strategies in the late 1970s. Since then, we have been similarly rigorous in reviewing new ways of thinking about active management based on insights from disciplines inside and outside the financial arena.
Innovation has resulted in a full continuum of investment offerings including: pure passive; traditional long-only enhanced and active; active and enhanced with limited shorting; and pure alpha. Our product range is designed to accommodate the virtually endless numbers of factors that differentiate investors such as risk and return preferences, legal and regulatory influences, social objectives and cultural biases. We continue to strive toward providing tailored solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients.
For more information, visit www.ssga.com
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