State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street, is an industry leading asset manager. Ranked seventh among the world's investment management firms, SSgA offers a broad array of investment management services.

Our approach is anchored in the belief that successful investment management is both a science and an art. We harness technology innovation and intellectual capital to provide investors with optimal investment performance, and to monitor risk. Client performance objectives are met through the application of powerful analytics, qualitative research and collective intelligence.

To design and implement sophisticated investment strategies for institutions and individuals, SSgA draws on its expertise across all asset classes, including:

• Global equity
• Global fixed income
• Real estate
• Currency
• Absolute return
• Private equity
• Alternative classes

We apply our knowledge across all investment strategies, including enhanced, quantitative and fundamental.

SSgA's immersion and experience in global financial markets has helped us cultivate innovative alliances and develop industry-leading products and services:

• In partnership with the American Stock Exchange (ASE), we launched the first-ever exchange traded fund (ETF) in 1993. This inaugural ETF, the Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts fund (SPDR), is the world's largest exchange-traded product and one of the most heavily traded securities on the ASE today.
  
  
• With an in-depth understanding and sensitivity to the tax concerns of affluent investors, we were the first to establish a tax-efficient market capture strategy designed especially to support the unique and complicated estate planning needs of these individuals. Today, SSgA manages more than USD 18 billion for affluent investors, providing customised investment strategies and services that help these clients enhance their after-tax wealth.
  
  
• From hedging and long/short strategies to risk mitigation, our Securities Finance operation provides liquidity strategies to facilitate and execute any investment strategy.

SSgA maximises global and local investment strategies through an interconnected network of 33 offices and nine Global Investment Centres. Dedicated specialists serving these locations provide unique insight and perspective into local regulatory requirements and business practices — supported by the added value of our affiliations with in-market investment firms — which we leverage across our entire investment organisation.

SSgA is committed to meeting the goals of sophisticated investors through the innovative application of investment strategies and integrated, bundled solutions. We offer investors the benefits of specialised local knowledge and perspective backed by the strength, stability and breadth of services that SSgA delivers.