SSgA Makes Three Key Hires to Advanced Research Center
LONDON -- 05/06/2008

LONDON - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), and largest institutional fund manager in the world1, today announced three key appointments to its Advanced Research Center (ARC) in London.

Söhnke Bartram joins as principal, responsible for research on active equity strategies. Prior to joining SSgA, Söhnke was an associate professor of finance at Lancaster University Management School. He is a frequent speaker at academic and practitioner conferences and has published work in many leading financial journals.

Javier Fernandez-Alcazar also joins the ARC as a principal. His responsibilities include conducting alpha generation research and designing portfolio analytic solutions across several asset classes. Prior to joining SSgA, Javier undertook a postdoctoral position at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on developing efficient simulation algorithms for dynamical systems.

Thomas Tziortziotis also joins the ARC as a principal, and will be focusing on active global fixed income and currency models. He was most recently with BNP Paribas Asset Management (Overlay Asset Management) where he developed active currency models. Earlier in his career, Thomas worked with SSgA, initially as a portfolio analyst and also with the ARC. All three researcher specialists will report to Vladimir Zdorovtsov, head of the Advanced Research Center in London.

The Advanced Research Center is SSgA's quantitative research group, charged with supporting and developing the models that underpin active strategies in equities, fixed income, currency and asset allocation.

"The ARC helps SSgA's investment professionals improve existing investment processes and discover new alpha sources in today's competitive environment," said Kanesh Lakhani, senior managing director of SSgA in the UK. "The addition of these three research specialists to the team underscores our commitment to further building our research capabilities so that we can continue to develop and enhance SSgA's leading quantitative investment models."

1Source: Pensions & Investments Magazine, based on assets under management as of December 31, 2006.

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