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For institutional investors, the ability to successfully navigate today's global marketplace is more difficult than ever. As investment barriers continue to fall in markets all over the world, new vehicles emerge, and compliance and regulatory requirements grow in complexity, managing your investment strategy has become increasingly complicated.

Your objective is achieving growth, while at the same time managing risk and improving operational efficiencies. As a financial services partner, State Street can help. Our investment management business, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), offers a comprehensive selection of asset management strategies customised to address each client's unique investment objectives.

Global investment expertise, state-of-the-art investment technology, and flexible, low-cost implementation allow us to tailor portfolios to satisfy virtually any investment objective and benchmark preference.

Our complete array of asset management solutions includes:

• Passive equity strategies


• Global fixed income strategies
  
• Currency management


• Transition management


• Alternative investment strategies

Equity and fixed income strategies are available in passive, enhanced and active management styles, and can be targeted to any benchmark our clients choose. Most important, our investment vehicles provide investors with exposure to all major global markets.

At SSgA, we approach asset management as both a science and an art. We use powerful analytics and rigorous portfolio management with the aim of consistently meeting performance objectives while at the same time controlling risk for our clients - including pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, corporate investors, financial institutions, religious institutions and family offices.

Our integrated investment solutions are offered through a wide range of vehicles. State Street Global Investment GmbH, the KAG, manages spezialfonds and segregated accounts (discretionary management). State Street Global Advisors GmbH, the advisor, subadvises other KAGs. Various mutual funds (UCITS) are registered for public distribution in Germany.

Dedicated investment teams, in-depth indexing experience, unparalleled trading efficiencies and an ongoing commitment to technology development — including client/server technology — have made SSgA a recognised market leader and the world's seventh largest investment manager.

For more information on our asset management services, please visit www.ssga.de or contact Wolfgang Hoetzendorfer, via phone at +49 89 5587 8400 or via email at Wolfgang_Hoetzendorfer@ssga.com.