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Environmental, Social, and Governance

ESG Investing: New Opportunities to Drive Value

In a world of change and uncertainty, investors need to consider any factor that has a material impact on long-term value creation. Decades of investing experience positions us to help investors use a variety of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing tools to meet their needs.


Defining Your ESG Goals


We advise that investors define and develop specific ESG investment objectives and goals, based on their vision, mission, and investment goals. Common objectives can include alpha generation, risk mitigation, responding to new ESG regulations, aligning investments to their preferences, or meeting individual client investment goals. Investment principles can be developed based on these objectives, which will form the ESG investment strategy.


ESG Investment Strategies


Investors can pursue their specific ESG objectives through a range of investment strategies.


Climate Investing


Analytics & Insights


Our investment team draws upon our vast capabilities, partnerships, and data sets to assess companies on financially material, decision-useful information. From climate to governance structures and business involvement activities, our commitment to rigorous analysis helps investors gain insights.


Stewardship & Value


Our pragmatic and widely respected asset stewardship program is focused on driving long-term value creation. Our team of experts accomplish this through:





Our Investment Philosophy


As part of State Street Corporation, whose mission is to create better outcomes for the world’s investors and the people they serve, we invest responsibly to enable economic prosperity and social progress. As a fiduciary, we have an obligation to put our clients’ long-term interests first.

To be effective in fulfilling this obligation, we need to consider all factors that have a material impact on long-term value creation. This includes material ESG factors, which we believe can affect the performance of investments to varying degrees across companies, sectors, regions, asset classes, and through time.


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