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Stewardship Report 2024
Forecasts Improve for the Agg
Momentum Sails On, For Now
UK Budget: 7 Takeaways for UK Pension Schemes
SSGA Canadian Long-Term Asset Class Forecasts
Germany's Fiscal Shift: Market Implications and Global Ripples
2025 Midyear Global Market Outlook
Surging Tailwinds Support US Small-cap and Mid-cap Stocks
The Tidal Wave of Global Debt: Causes and Consequences
Volatility Guardrails for Uncertain Times
Geopolitical Outlook 2025
Emerging Market Debt: Market Commentary Q2 2024
Tipping Point: Is The RBA On Track For A Rate Hike?
Rethinking the Role of Bonds in Multi-Asset Portfolios
Investing in Sustainable Growth: Q2 2024
What Does the Downward Interest Rate Trajectory Imply for Infrastructure Investors?
Monthly Cash Review: July 2025 (USD)
Breaking Down 2024 Market Performance
Emerging Market Debt: Market Commentary Q3 2024
Implementation: Going from Theory to Action
A Letter From Our CIO: Systematic Equity Update
Odds of Fed December Cut Increase
Building a Portfolio: A Closer Look at Our Process
Reduce Allocation to European Equities
The Wait Is Over
Long-Term Asset Class Forecasts: Q4 2024
The Price of Protectionism: Understanding the Economic Trade-offs of Tariffs
Oil Isn’t Participating in Near-Term Inflation Expectations
The Importance of Global Trade
Investing in the Future Approaches to Climate Change in Portfolios
Global Equities: Balancing Risks and Opportunities
Trump 2.0: Implications for Taiwan, South Korea, and China’s Tech Sectors
China-led Emerging Markets Rally Still Has Room to Run, But Faces Headwinds
Regaining Retirement Confidence in a Post-Pandemic Environment
Japan’s Inflation and Yield Shift Signal Global Policy Divergence
From Resilience to Recession: Allocating to US Equities Amid Tariff and Inflation Risks
The Misconception of Value Investing in the Eurozone
What Tariffs Mean for the Economy and Markets
Pessimistic US Consumers May Have A Point, After All
Real Talk on Real Rates: A Data-Driven Look at the New Rate Paradigm
Global CIO Reaction to US Presidential Election
Insurance, Climate-Related Risks and the Rising Cost of Living
US Public Debt at Record High
2023 Global Retirement Reality Report: US Snapshot
Sector ETF Momentum Map
Adapt and Thrive: Evolution and Innovation in Emerging Markets
An Introduction to Systematic Active Fixed Income
Trump’s Triumph Delivers Equity Sector Winners and Losers
Appetite for Risk Wanes
Quantum Computing: Evolution or Revolution?
Global High Yield Update – Q3 2024
Global Market Portfolio 2024
2022 Global Retirement Reality Report: US Snapshot
Steady Global Growth Masks Considerable Risks
Indexed Fixed Income at State Street Global Advisors: Snapshot 2024
Emerging Market Debt Outlook: All Roads Lead to the US
2024 ETF Impact Survey
Don’t Sell the US Dollar Yet
SPDR® ETFs Throughout the COVID-19 Crisis
Renewed Energy in 2020
Beyond Oil: Saudi Arabia Bonds Emerge as a Compelling Investment
Active Quantitative Equity Quarterly
Investor Behaviour
Investing in real assets with ETFs
Monthly Cash Review - GBP
Trump’s Policy Threatens Inflation Balance
The Impact of Crisis-Driven Dividend Cuts
Macroeconomic Outlook 2025
Skilling Up During Disruption
Commodities Now an Overweight
ECB Has Room to Cut More
2020 Vision: Focus on Finding Opportunities
The Evolving Opportunity in Emerging Market Equities
High Yield Still in Focus
Sector & Equity Compass Q2 2025: Scenario Trading
Little Relief in Current Data
Equities and the Path Forward
A Letter From Our CIO: Indexed Fixed Income Update
Real Assets Review
High uncertainty doesn’t mean indefinite Fed inaction
One Question Series: Should I Consider Systematic Active Fixed Income?
September CPI Stronger Than Expected
Can the Bank of Japan Continue to Swim Against the Tide?
The Weekly ETF Brief
Emerging Market Debt: Enhancing a Global Bond Portfolio
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: February 2025
Inflation Relief Boosts Rate Cut Expectations
Finding the Right Path
Third Quarter 2019 Forecast
Market Forecasts: Q2 2025
Systematic High Quality Corporate Fixed Income: August 2024
Divergence in Economic Indicators
Emerging Market Debt Off to a Strong Start
5 Emerging Market Wildcards for 2025
Navigating Sustainable Investing Regulation as a Driver of Opportunity and Risk
ECB Cuts Rate and Signals More Easing
US Macro Data Coming in Hot and Cold
Global High Yield Update – Q1 2025
More Storms Brewing: Are Tariffs on Europe Next?
What’s New in Multi-Asset Investing? A Q&A with Alexander Rudin, Ph.D.
Forward-Looking Climate Metrics in Corporate Bond Portfolios
US Elections: Global Spillover Effects
Expectations Improve for US Equities
Q2 Investment Outlook
Inflation or Growth – Which One Is It?
Q4 2024 Credit Research Outlook
Small Caps: More Than Just a Factor Premium
Markets Brush Off US Debt Downgrade
Tariff Risk Looms Large
The Markets
Canada GDP Growth Exceeds Expectations
Yielding Power: What Militarizing Europe Means for its Bond Markets
Real Assets Insights: Q1 2025
US Tariffs Break the USD Bull Case
Data Keeps Alive Chance of March Fed Cut
Waiting for Value: Time to Reassess ‘Cheap’ Equities?
Striking a More Defensive Posture
2023 Global Retirement Reality Report: Ireland Snapshot
SSGAL Section 172 Statement
Global High Yield Update – Q2 2024
2022 Global Retirement Reality Report: UK Snapshot
Espresso
Inflation Signals December Rate Cut
Stewardship Activity Report: Q4 2024
An Active Fundamental Approach to the US Market
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: Q4 2024
GCC Fixed Income: An Alternative Diversifier to Core Allocations
2025 Global Retirement Reality Report: UK Snapshot
3 Global High Yield Myths That Just Don’t Hold Up
A New Leadership Era: Institutional Meets Individual
Elections
A Balanced Approach in US Equities is Starting to Pay Dividends
Big Beautiful Bill brings tax clarity
Case Studies on Climate-Thematic Equity Investment Solutions
Capturing Leveraged Loan Beta: How Index Strategies Can Be an Effective Vehicle for Loan Market Exposure
An Unusual Mortgage Refinancing Cycle Ahead
Factor Performance and Flows
Capital Adequacy Disclosures
Three Surprises for 2025: Overcoming One-way Investor Sentiment
The Case for Systematic Investing in Credit
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: November 2024
Casting a Wide Net: Why True Passive Strategies Are Rare Catches
Temporary Rise in US Inflation Ahead
Factoring in Cash Flow: the Rise of Quality Aristocrats
Could ‘70s Era Stagflation Make a Comeback?
Beyond Banks: Financial Stocks and Trump
What to Know about an EM Ex China Allocation
Navigating the European Defence Investment Landscape
Finishing Strong and Preparing for the Year Ahead
Volatility Positioning: How to Hold on for the Ride
Defensive factor strategies taming the US equities bear
Housing Market Faces Tepid Spring
Cracks Appear in Bullish US Dollar Story
Long-Term Asset Class Forecasts: Q1 2025
Sustainable Investing: 5 Key Questions Asset Owners Ask
The New Retirement Straits
Policy Action Overshadows February Jobs Report
Inflation Expectations Rocket to Multi-Decade Highs
US Small- and Mid-cap Equities: The De-escalation Trade
Building a Tactical Asset Allocation Overlay With Derivatives
Portfolio Construction Beyond 60/40
Software: Still Eating the World Just Taking a Pause to Digest
Japanese Super-long Bond Weakness: Why We’re Not Sounding the Alarm Bells Just Yet
How to Decarbonize Multi-Strategy Equity Portfolios: Practical Considerations
US Economy Powers Ahead
Is the Gold Market Pricing-In US Recession Risks?
The Consequences of the Global Liquidity Crisis for Emerging Markets Investors
Q2 2025 Bond Compass
DeepSeek’s Shifting Dynamics
Fixed Income Outlook 2025
Featured Insights
Finding the Right Path: Implementation Guide
Looking for a Signal in the Noise
Is Exorbitant Government Spending the Key to Stock Market Prosperity?
Decoding the Market Reaction to Trump’s Win
Q2 2025 Cash Outlook
History Backs Market Recovery
Smart Beta Compass
Climate Transition Corporate Bond Beta Investing Approach
US Sovereign Wealth Fund A Behemoth in the Making?
2025 Global Retirement Reality Report: Canada Snapshot
Policy tightness threatens soft landing
Dollar Surge Continues
Broadening Out From Trump 2.0
Plenty of Drama, But Same Story
Are Foreign Investors Really “Dumping” US Treasury Bonds?
Fiscal (In)Stability
January CPI Hotter Than Expected
India in 2025: A tale of contrasting risk perception?
EMD Hard Currency
Emerging Market Debt
Emerging Market Equities: Climbing the Wall of Worry
US Housing Activity Shifts
Webcast Fed Liquidity Programs and ETFs
Convertibles Steer Through 2025 Turbulence Smoothly
No Letup in Capital Expenditures
What’s Driving Local Currency Emerging Market Debt’s Stellar Year-to-date Returns?
Investment Research Offsite 2024 Recap
ESG Insights
‘Value-Up’ Governance Arrives in China
UK Autumn Budget Signals Fiscal Expansion
2024 US Retirement Reality Report: US Snapshot
Putting the Power of AI to Work in Investing
The Retirement Prism: Seeing Now and Later
Rising Political Risks Drive Currency Markets
Exploring the Full Spectrum of Fixed Income Strategies
UK Money Market Reform
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: Q1 2025
Introduction to Barclays QPS
Q3 2025 Credit Research Outlook
2025 Global Retirement Reality Report: US Snapshot
Equity Outlook: At the Turn of the Tide
The Case For Enhanced Active Strategies
We Maintain No-Recession Call Despite GDP Data
BoJ Rate Now at 17-Year High
Sentiment Improves for Fixed Income
A Core Fixed Income Solution: Outperforming the Agg, But with Minimal TEV
Tariffs Put Global Economy at Risk of Recession
The Case for Defensive Equity Strategies
July rate cut unlikely
Gaps and Overlaps in SMID-Cap Exposure
Our Annual Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report is Here
Prospects for a Turnaround in European Equity Fortunes
US Jobs Data Not Bad Enough
2023 Global Retirement Reality Report: UK Snapshot
US Disinflation Has Further to Run
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: October 2024
Six Grey Swans That Could Move Markets in 2025
Is the US Facing a Grand Era of De-Regulation?
Market Forecasts: Q3 2024
Long-Term Asset Class Forecasts: Q3 2024
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: January 2025
Canada Inflation Continues to Ease
High Yield in Focus
The Rise in Systematic Credit Investing
Opportunities and Risks Related to Emerging Technologies
A Strategic Foundation: Twenty Years of Real Assets
US Elections Finish Line in Sight: Revisiting Our Outlook
Systematic High Quality Corporate Fixed Income: Factors Steady the Ship in Turbulent Seas
US Election 2024: The Final Countdown
The Outlook for Emerging Market Debt Improves
Tech turns defensive as labor weakens
Real Assets Post Strong Performance
Saudi Arabia: A Shelter from the Debt Storm?
Q1 2025 Cash Outlook
The Fixed Income Side of Factor Investing: What Investors Need to Know
Tariffs, Transshipping, and the Trouble with Vietnam
Ripples From China
US Growth and Elections Drive Currency Markets
Two-Sided Risks to US Soft Landing
What is the Best Approach to Factor Investing?
Reevaluating the India Equity Opportunity
Q4 2024 Cash Outlook
Q2 Investment Outlook
The Evergreen Case for a Strategic Allocation to High Yield
An Advanced Perspective on Securities Lending
Yen Set for Gains in Volatile Markets
State Street Global Advisors Rebrands as State Street Investment Management
Next Fed Cut Could Be in July, Not June
US Employment Report Triggers Rate Cuts Rethink
Equity Market Outlook 2025
Can Japanese Equities Recover to New Highs?
GCC Region in Bloom
Achieving New Frontiers The Role of Bonds in Sustainable Investing
An Investment Vision for European Defence
Trump’s Trade War: What’s the Endgame?
Stage Being Set for Bank of Japan Rate Hike
Recalibration Day
Convertibles Tough Out Trump Mega Volatility
Latest Data Suggests Need for Urgency
Odds of RBA Rate Hike Increase
Q2 2025 Credit Research Outlook
Is Trump a Green Light for Convertibles and US High Yield?
Guide to Using the Sector Momentum Map
Small Caps Remain Sensitive to Yields
Fixed Income Stewardship Program Updates
Building a Better Benchmark for Leveraged Loan Indexing
Market Forecasts: Q1 2025
Odds of Larger ECB Cuts Increase
Indexed Fixed Income: Delivering Precise and Reliable Outcomes
An Enhanced Approach to Broad Emerging Markets Equity Exposure
Global Convertible Bonds: A Balanced Profile for a Soft Landing
Tariffs Test S&P 500 Margins
MPFL Section 172 Statement
Overweight in European Equities
Will These Grey Swans Take Flight in 2025?
Separating Fact from Fear in Japanese Investing
Market Regime Indicator: Q2 2024
Fixed Income 2025: Roadmap
The Fed forays into ETFs
Introduction to SPDR Portfolio Consulting
A Better Macro Policy Framework for Europe
US Mid Caps: The Goldilocks Equity Sector in a Trump World
An Update on Dividend Aristocrats
Growth Fuels Currency Moves
Fed Policy Mistake? 3 Reasons the Economy Will Keep Humming
One Question Series: How Can Fixed Income Help Manage Uncertainty?
Black Sheep of US Macro Proves Economy Slowing
Why Chinese Government Bonds Warrant Attention… and Caution
Portfolio Protection: A Renaissance for Government Bonds
Asset Tokenization in Capital Markets
Global Growth Dips Amid Uncertainty
Signs of Restored Stock-Bond Balance
Active Defensive Equities: Capturing Growth and Managing Risk in the Disruptive AI Era
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: August 2024
Disinflation Exception? The Special Case Of Insurance Costs
The Case for High Yield
Global Retirement Reality Report
2025 Credit Research Outlook
Optimizing a Global Credit Portfolio
Tariffs Market Economy
Implementing Your De-Risking Strategy: Plan-by-Plan Considerations
Is Sentiment Turning?
Monthly Cash Review – EUR
Why European Equities Are Outperforming Amid Low Growth and Security Concerns
Making Sense of the Current US Treasury Market
Path Clear for Rate Cut in September
2025 Global Retirement Reality Report: Ireland Snapshot
Trade Repositions While Globalization Wanes
SAFI Update and Review: Strategy Generates +100-125 bps of Alpha in Its First Year
Decoding Market Regimes Machine Learning Insights into US Asset Performance Over The Last 30 Years
Exploring Transformative Technologies
Charitable Asset Management
Elections Extend US Dollar Strength
Systematic Active Fixed Income: A Modern Approach to Fixed Income Investing
Expectation Improves for Equities
Australian Retirement Survey During a Time of Change
Long-Term Asset Class Forecasts: Q2 2025
Fixed Income 2025: Return of the Sovereigns
German Election: “Alternative zur Stagnation?”
Allocation to Europe Equities Increased
Why Aren’t Yields Following Oil’s Lead?
Bond Sell-Off: Implications for the US and UK Markets
Mixed Signals, Murky Outlook
What does the divergence in US soft and hard data mean?
Japan’s Path Ahead Amid Political Uncertainty
Emerging Market Debt Commentary: April 2025
Labor Market Resilience Offsets Geopolitical Tensions
US Growth Leads the Way in Economic Dominance
US Election Wrap-up: The Comeback President and What Happens Next
Market Forecasts: Q4 2024
The Global Trend of Positive Stock/Bond Correlation
Why Investors Should Continue to Climb the Wall of Worry
Defined Benefit Dynamism: Navigating Towards Better Outcomes
Why the GCC Is Emerging as a Global Private Markets Hotspot
Overview: Systematic Active Fixed Income Signals
The Challenging Sustainable Investing Landscape One Size Does Not Fit All
Evolution of Trading in Emerging Markets
Growing Tariff Anxiety Overshadows Payrolls Data
Can Australia Survive A Trade War?
DeepSeek’s Game-Changing Implications for the AI Play
UK Headline Inflation Accelerates
China’s Latest Stimulus: Boosting Price, not Earnings
The Case for US Innovation and Growth
Temperature Scores: A Guide to Climate Alignment Metrics
Financial Stocks: Banking on Trump
Long-Term US Dollar Risks Persist
UK Election Outlook
China’s 2020 National People’s Congress: The Big Policy Pivot
Reversal of Fortune: Tech Equities Lag the Rest
EM Equities at a Crossroads: Which Signs to Follow?
The Role of Active, Index and Systematic Investing in Fixed Income Portfolios
The Future of AI and How to Ethically Leverage its Power
Convex — and Ahead of the Curve: SPDR Global Convertible Bond ETF Turns 10
Blending Active and Index Building Blocks for Better Fixed Income Outcomes
Global High Yield Year in Review
France’s Fiscal Fragility Strains the Eurozone
Little to See, Much to Worry About
Bond Yields Rise as US Election Draws Near
What Does the Return of Oil Volatility Mean for Commodities?
Shifting Sands: The GCC’s Equity Market Transformation
Election Overshadows Fed's Rate Cut
Shocks and Reversals
2022 Global Retirement Reality Report: Ireland Snapshot
Uncommon Sense
2025 Global Retirement Reality Report: Australia Snapshot
Political and Economic Unknowns Drive Equity Sector Shifts
Liquid Real Assets in DC Pension Plans