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        Robert W Spencer

        Senior Portfolio Strategist

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        28 Yrs

        Rob is a Managing Director and Head of Client Portfolio Management with State Street Global Advisors' Investment Solutions Group (ISG). Client Portfolio Managers are members of the investment team charged with helping clients understand the team’s various investment capabilities and how they can leverage them.
        He actively participates in client engagement, investment management, product management, thought leadership, and business strategy. Prior to joining ISG, Rob was a Client Portfolio Manager in the Active Quantitative Equities Group working with global, non-us, and emerging market equity portfolios. Before joining SSGA in 2005, he was a consultant/relationship manager with State Street Analytics, a division of State Street Corporation. In this position, Rob was responsible for delivering performance measurement and investment analytic solutions to several of State Street's large institutional clients. Rob joined State Street Corporation in 1996.
        Rob received a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Economics from Elizabethtown College. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and is a member of both the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Boston.

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