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    Environmental, Social and Governance

    Asset Stewardship

    Guided by a mission to invest responsibly to enable economic prosperity and social progress, our asset stewardship program is focused on using our voice and our vote to make a measurable difference around the world. Central to this work is our conviction in the importance of ESG, built on the following principles:

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    Our stewardship role in global capital markets extends beyond proxy voting and engagement with issuer companies.

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    Our approach to stewardship is designed to have an impact through thought leadership, engagement, proxy voting and client disclosure.

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    Companies embracing Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) best practice have strong, effective independent boards and incorporate sustainability into their long-term strategy across these two issues.

    Annual Asset Stewardship Report

    March 2021

    2020 Report

    2020 Report

    Our 2020 report showcases the engagement and voting activity we undertook in our mission to build sustainable capital markets and maximize value for our clients.

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    Highlights

    Meetings: 19,000+
    Companies Engaged: 1,500
    Targeted Climate Engagements: 140+
    Climate Risk and Reporting

    Climate Risk and Reporting

    Climate risk is an increasingly important focus for investors everywhere. In 2020 we elevated our focus on climate further, engaging extensively and launching a number of new initiatives.

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    Integrating R-Factor into Voting Decision

    Integrating R-Factor into Voting Decision

    R-factor, our proprietary scoring system, created in 2019, measures the performance as it relates to financially material and industry specific ESG risk factors.

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    Gender Diversity – Fearless Girl

    Gender Diversity – Fearless Girl

    Companies are continuing to respond to our call and adding women to the highest level of their boards – and today, there is global focus on the value of diversity in the boardrooms.

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    Our Guidance

    View all of our voting guidelines and expectations.

    Current Stewardship Priorities

    Our stewardship program utilizes a risk-based approach to identify material ESG thematic topics deemed to have the most material impacts on the long-term value of our portfolio companies.

    Climate Change

    Climate change presents a key systemic threat, representing both a strategic and business challenge for all companies. The prioritization of climate change as a core theme of our stewardship activities since 2014 is driven by our fiduciary obligation to maximize the long-term returns of our clients’ investments.

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    Diversity & Inclusion

    At State Street Global Advisors, we believe that companies have a responsibility to effectively manage and disclose risks and opportunities related to racial and ethnic diversity. We have expanded our firm’s longstanding focus on gender diversity to include race and ethnicity, and this essential dimension of ESG risk management will be a priority for our Asset Stewardship team.

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    R-Factor™

    With R-Factor informing our decision-making, we will continue to use our proxy voting power to ensure companies are identifying material ESG issues and incorporating the implications into their long-term strategy.

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    Media Highlights

    Our Expectations for Public Companies on Diversity Strategy

    Letter to Board Chairs from CIO, Rick Lacaille, receives coverage in Pensions & Investments article.

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    Index Funds Must Be Activists to Serve Investors

    Cyrus Taraporevala pens op-ed in Financial Times reiterating our commitment to long-term value creation on behalf of clients.

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    The Other Climate Risk Investors Need to Talk About

    This Financial Time’s op-ed by our CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, speaks to the climate risk of “brown-spinning” and private equity.

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    Leadership Team

    Benjamin Colton

    Global Co-Head of Asset Stewardship

    Benjamin and his colleagues are responsible for developing and implementing our global proxy voting policies and guidelines across all investment strategies and managing our proxy voting activities and issuer engagements on ESG issues. Prior to Ben’s current role, he was the Asset Stewardship’s team Head of Asia Pacific based in Tokyo, Japan.

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    Robert Walker

    Global Co-Head of Asset Stewardship

    Robert and his colleagues are responsible for developing and implementing our global proxy voting policies and guidelines across all investment strategies and managing our proxy voting activities and issuer engagements on ESG issues. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Robert was Director for Social and Governance Research at HSBC Bank plc.

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    Contact Us

    For questions or any further information on our stewardship program, please email the Governance Team at State Street Global Advisors.

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