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Empowering Corporate Defined Benefit Plans

Corporate DB plan sponsors must navigate a complex landscape. State Street Investment Management provides tools, insights, solutions, and investment strategies that help them optimize portfolios, manage liability exposure, and achieve long-term stability.

Our expertise

Driving success for Corporate DB plans with trusted solutions and reliable guidance

Solving for Corporate DB challenges

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Liability driven investing Customized investment strategies to help meet the plan’s unique liability profile. 

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Liquidity management Enhance overall liquidity, dynamically manage risk and return outcomes, strengthen governance practices, and enhance plan cost efficiency. 

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Strategic asset allocation Insights on optimal asset allocation strategies at various levels of funded status for unique liability risk profiles. 

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Diversification and downside risk mitigation Multi-asset solutions to help enhance diversification of growth assets, reduce the impact of adverse economic cycles, and seek excess returns against plan liabilities. 

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Pension risk transfer Helping well-funded plans with independent fiduciary solutions reduce liabilities through pension risk transfer.  

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Inflation and late-cycle preparation Identify asset classes and strategies with the potential for diversification benefits in inflationary and late-cycle market conditions. 

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Outsourced chief investment officer Comprehensive, flexible investment advisory, plan services, open architecture, and fiduciary-driven solutions. 

Research spotlights

Investment capabilities and styles

State Street Investment Management offers a comprehensive range of investment capabilities and styles tailored to corporate plans, including:

  • Innovative pension solutions delivered with a commitment to fiduciary excellence
  • Expertise in the full range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and alternatives
  • Active, index, and systematic strategies
  • Rigorous risk management

Active management

  • Expertise: Seasoned investment professionals who seek to seize market opportunities and mitigate risk.
  • Customization: Investment solutions designed to meet the specific needs of corporate plans.

Index investing

  • Efficiency: Low-cost, transparent, efficient market exposures across multiple asset classes.
  • Benchmark tracking: Consistent, reliable alignment with key index performance.

Systematic strategies

  • Data-driven results: Advanced algorithms and quantitative models that drive investment decisions across asset classes.
  • Consistency: Disciplined processes to manage risks and enhance returns.

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Learn more about how State Street Investment Management can help corporate plans pursue their investment objectives.