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  Asset Stewardship
  We utilize our Asset Stewardship program to engage with investee companies to seek long-term value and mitigate risk to our clients’ portfolios.
  We use our stewardship tools to engage with investee companies on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues to seek long-term value. Through engagements, proxy voting, and thought leadership, we take an outcome-oriented approach to managing ESG risks and opportunities to our investments.
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  Pillars of Our Program
  Thought Leadership: To inform and provide guidance to our investee companies on the development of ESG practices
  Engagement: To encourage investee companies to develop transparent, accountable, high-performing boards and businesses
  Proxy Voting: To incorporate our investment objectives and to align with our long-term investment horizon
  Current Stewardship Priorities
  Our stewardship program is anchored in three distinct pillars of ESG and their intersections. We regularly identify thematic focus areas that guide our proxy voting and engagement efforts. Within these focus areas, we elevate outcome-oriented stewardship priorities each year based on factors including client demand, stakeholder interest, market trends, and financial materiality, among others.
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  Latest Guidance on Diversity Disclosures and Practices PDF
  Our Climate Stewardship Eﬀorts
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  Recent Human Capital Management Insights
  The Board's Oversight of Director Time Commitments
  Our Guidance
  View all of our voting guidelines and expectations.
  Annual Asset Stewardship Report
  Our 2021 report showcases the engagement and voting activity we undertook in our mission to build sustainable capital markets and maximize value for our clients.
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  Media Highlights
  The Other Climate Risk Investors Need to Talk About
  This Financial Times op-ed by our CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, speaks to the climate risk of “brown-spinning” and private equity.
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  Racial Diversity Stagnated on Corporate Boards
  Benjamin Colton, Global Head of Asset Stewardship, Voting and Engagement, was featured in an Associated Press article on board diversity.
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  State Street Demands Specifics for ‘Bloody Hard’ Carbon Transitions
  Cyrus Taraporevla, President and CEO, is featured in a Financial Times exclusive on our transition plans in 2022.
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  Leadership
  Benjamin Colton
  Global Head of Asset Stewardship
  Benjamin and his colleagues are responsible for developing and implementing our global proxy voting policies and guidelines across all investment strategies and managing our proxy voting activities and issuer engagements on ESG issues. Prior to Ben’s current role, he was the Asset Stewardship’s team Head of Asia Pacific based in Tokyo, Japan.
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  Contact Us
  For questions or any further information on our stewardship program, please email the Governance Team at State Street Global Advisors.
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  This information is for informational purposes only, not to be construed as investment advice or a recommendation or offer to buy or sell any security. Investors should always obtain and read an up-to-date investment services description or prospectus before deciding whether to appoint an investment manager or to invest in a fund. Any views expressed herein are those of the author(s), are based on available information, and are subject to change without notice. Individual portfolio management teams may hold different views and may make different investment decisions for different clients. There are no guarantees regarding the achievement of investment objectives, target returns, portfolio construction, allocations or measurements such as alpha, tracking error, stock weightings and other information ratios. The views and strategies described may not be suitable for all investors. SSGA does not provide tax or legal advice. Prospective investors should consult with a tax or legal advisor before making any investment decision. Investing entails risks and there can be no assurance that SSGA will achieve profits or avoid incurring losses.
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