We utilize our Asset Stewardship program to engage with investee companies to seek long-term value and mitigate risk to our clients’ portfolios.
We use our stewardship tools to engage with investee companies on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues to seek long-term value. Through engagements, proxy voting, and thought leadership, we take an outcome-oriented approach to managing ESG risks and opportunities to our investments.
Thought Leadership: To inform and provide guidance to our investee companies on the development of ESG practices
Engagement: To encourage investee companies to develop transparent, accountable, high-performing boards and businesses
Proxy Voting: To incorporate our investment objectives and to align with our long-term investment horizon
Our team’s efforts are anchored in stewardship priorities — broad topics that we focus on over multiple years to create long-term value for our clients. We regularly review our stewardship priorities to ensure that our interactions with companies remain effective and meaningful.
Learn more about our climate stewardship efforts.
View all of our voting guidelines and expectations.
Our 2022 report showcases the engagement and voting activity we undertook in our mission to build sustainable capital markets and maximize value for our clients.
State Street Global Advisors has expanded its proxy voting choice program. Now, even more investors have the power to choose how shares held in the eligible funds and segregated accounts they own are voted.
The Other Climate Risk Investors Need to Talk About
This Financial Times op-ed by our former CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, speaks to the climate risk of “brown-spinning” and private equity.
Racial Diversity Stagnated on Corporate Boards
Benjamin Colton, Global Head of Asset Stewardship, Voting and Engagement, was featured in an Associated Press article on board diversity.
State Street Demands Specifics for ‘Bloody Hard’ Carbon Transitions
Cyrus Taraporevla, former President and CEO, is featured in a Financial Times exclusive on our transition plans in 2022.
For questions or any further information on our stewardship program, please email the Governance Team at State Street Global Advisors.