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The views expressed are the views of State Street Global Advisors’ Global Fixed Income Strategist team through March 2026, and are subject to change based on market and other conditions. This document contains certain statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance, and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected.
Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
Bonds generally present less short-term risk and volatility than stocks, but contain interest rate risk (as interest rates raise, bond prices usually fall); issuer default risk; issuer credit risk; liquidity risk; and inflation risk. These effects are usually pronounced for longer-term securities. Any fixed income security sold or redeemed prior to maturity may be subject to a substantial gain or loss.
CLO Debt Securities carry certain structural risks including potential subordination to the other tranches of debt in the same capital structure, volatility of underlying collateral values, and potential for principal loss of the underlying assets in excess of the equity valuation. CLOs issue classes or “tranches” of securities that vary in risk and yield. Losses caused by defaults on underlying assets are borne first by the holders of subordinate tranches.
Investing in foreign domiciled securities may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in currency values, withholding taxes, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations. Investments in emerging or developing markets may be more volatile and
less liquid than investing in developed markets and may involve exposure to economic structures that are generally less diverse and mature and to political systems which have less stability than those of more developed countries.
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The performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Index returns are unmanaged and do not reflect the deduction of any fees or expenses. Index returns reflect all items of income, gain and loss and the reinvestment of dividends and other income as applicable.
This document provides summary information regarding the Strategy. This document should be read in conjunction with the Strategy’s Disclosure Document, which is available from SSGA. The Strategy Disclosure Document contains important information about the Strategy, including a description of a number of risks.
The returns on a portfolio of securities which exclude companies that do not meet the portfolio’s sustainable strategy criteria may trail the returns on a portfolio of securities which include such companies. A portfolio’s sustainable strategy criteria may result in the portfolio investing in industry sectors or securities which underperform the market as a whole.
SSGA defines a “Sustainable Investing Account” as a client account (i.e., fund or separately managed account managed by SSGA) that utilizes an investment strategy that falls into one of the following three categories, which are not mutually exclusive:
1.Negative Sustainable Investing Screen, as defined below
2.Positive Sustainable Investing Screen, as defined below
3.Third-Party ESG/Sustainable Investing Index Investment Strategies, as defined below
Note: ESG/sustainability data coverage limitations or other factors may result in positive or negative screening being applied to less than 100% of a Sustainable Investing Account. The assets under management (AUM) of an account are classified as Sustainable Investment (SI) AUM, irrespective of the percentage of those assets that
have been subject to negative or positive screening. There are several ways in which an issuer can be considered to be involved in a particular product or service, and a screening methodology, along with ESG/sustainability data coverage limitations, may result in a negatively screened portfolio having some exposure to the screened criteria.
1. Negative Sustainable Investing Screen: A “Negative Sustainable Investing Screen” (also known as an exclusionary screen) is a screen incorporated into the investment strategy utilized for the management of a portfolio that results in the exclusion from the portfolio of securities of issuers that fail to satisfy certain sustainability criteria (e.g., because the issuers comprise part of a sector or industry). Negative Sustainable
Investing Screens include but are not limited to SSGA Point of View (“POV”) screens, norms-based screens, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) screens, and screens provided by other third parties (including client-directed screens). Where a client’s investment agreement and/or investment guidelines specify, or the client otherwise communicates to SSGA that the application of a negative screen is to satisfy a purpose other than sustainable investing (e.g., diversification), such screens do not qualify as a Negative Sustainable Investing Screen. Note: There are several ways in which a company can be considered to be involved in a particular product or service, and a screening methodology, along with coverage limitations, may result in a negatively
screened portfolio having some exposure to the screened criteria.
2. Positive Sustainable Investing Screen: A “Positive Sustainable Investing Screen” is a screen incorporated into the investment strategy utilized for the management of a portfolio that intentionally includes securities of issuers identified as having positive sustainability characteristics relative to the issuer’s industry or sector peers. Positive Sustainable Investing Screens target an improvement of a portfolio’s sustainability profile as compared to a benchmark or stated investment guideline, measured by a sustainability score or a sustainability metric, or invest only in issuers within an industry or sector that score higher within that industry or sector than the issuer’s peers.
3. Third-Party ESG/Sustainable Investing Index Investment Strategies: An index tracking client account qualifies as a Sustainable Investing Account if it tracks a Third-Party ESG/Sustainable Investing Index. An index is deemed to be a “Third-Party ESG/Sustainable Investing Index” if the index methodology incorporates ESG/sustainability factors or characteristics that are utilized by the third-party index provider to determine which securities and/or how much in weight are included as index constituents. A client account that utilizes a Third-Party ESG/Sustainable Investing Index as a reference benchmark for performance or reporting purposes, but does not seek to track such index as an investment strategy, does not qualify as a Sustainable Investing Account unless it meets at least one of the first two prongs of the definition of “Sustainable Investing Account” set forth above. The methodology used by SSGA to identify Sustainable Investing AUM (see page 3) may differ from the methodology used under certain classification and disclosure regulatory regimes. SSGA makes no representation that an account identified as a “Sustainable Investing Account” satisfies all Sustainable
Investing categories under the SSGA Sustainable Investing Account Identification Policy. A Sustainable Investing Account may satisfy only one of the three categories described above, and within that category it may incorporate a single sustainability factor or exposure. SSGA’s Sustainable Investing AUM may include AUM of client accounts for which a negative screen is applied at the request of the client for regulatory or other purposes, which may not be disclosed to SSGA, that SSGA believes results in the exclusion from the client’s portfolio of securities based on sustainability criteria.
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