SSGA

SSGA to get tough with boards lagging on ESG

Feb 05, 2020

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is running out of patience with boards that are not taking account of important ESG issues. In a...Read more

ESG

Many investors link ESG to fiduciary responsibility, SSGA finds

Nov 26, 2019

Mike Schnitzel

Many investors link ESG to fiduciary responsibility, SSGA finds

Almost half (46 percent) of investors surveyed by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) believe considering ESG is part of their...Read more

ESG

SSGA finds resistance amid progress on board diversity

Sep 13, 2019

Ben Maiden

SSGA finds resistance amid progress on board diversity

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is seeing progress in its multi-year campaign to boost female representation in the boardroom –...Read more

ESG

SSGA's ESG data challenge

Jul 04, 2019

Alison Weiner

Rakhi Kumar

Quality data about companies’ ESG practices is critical for effective investment analysis. The lack of standardization and...Read more

ESG

Fearless Girl campaign prompts more than 400 firms to add female director

Mar 08, 2019

Ben Ashwell

Fearless Girl campaign prompts more than 400 firms to add female director

Earlier this week, the world’s second Fearless Girl statue was installed in London, just feet away from St Paul’s Cathedral. As is the...Read more

Buy side

Biggest fund managers continue to support ‘excessive’ CEO pay deals

Feb 26, 2019

Garnet Roach

Biggest fund managers continue to support ‘excessive’ CEO pay deals

Some of the world’s largest fund managers have been accused of nodding through excessive pay packages, according to research from As...Read more

ESG

SSGA expands diversity engagement in GCC countries

Jan 24, 2019

Judith Ugwumadu

SSGA expands diversity engagement in GCC countries

State Street Global Advisors’ (SSGA) Fearless Girl campaign – which has inspired companies and shareholders in the last 22 months...Read more

Shareholder targeting & ID

US equities to benefit from last vestiges of fiscal stimulus in 2019, says SSGA

Dec 14, 2018

Andrew Holt

US equities to benefit from last vestiges of fiscal stimulus in 2019, says SSGA

Asset manager State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) believes US equities will benefit from the last vestiges of fiscal stimulus and...Read more

ESG

State Street Global Advisors to focus on Canadian and Japanese board diversity

Nov 15, 2017