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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.

    Our Approach

    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

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    Thought Leadership: To inform and provide guidance to our investee companies on the development of ESG practices

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    Engagement: To encourage investee companies to develop transparent, accountable, high-performing boards and businesses

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    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.

    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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    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.

    Proxy Voting Choice

    We recently announced that we will offer more investors the power to direct how shares held in the funds they own are voted.

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    Our Target: Net Zero

    We are a member of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative whose goal of net-zero carbon emissions is consistent with our commitment to drive long-term 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 former 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, former 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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    More on Asset Stewardship

    For questions or any further information on our stewardship program, please email the Governance Team at State Street Global Advisors.

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