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Strategies & Capabilities

Empowering Corporate Defined Benefit Plans

Corporate DB plan sponsors must navigate a complex landscape. State Street Global Advisors 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. 

3

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

4

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. 

5

Pension Risk Transfer Helping well-funded plans with Independent Fiduciary solutions reduce liabilities through pension risk transfer.  

6

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 Global Advisors 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.
     

Contact Your Relationship Manager to learn more about how State Street Global Advisors can help corporate plans pursue their investment objectives.