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State Street Global Advisors Sees Strong and Growing Market Adoption of Proxy Voting Choice in Q1 2025
BOSTON, June 18, 2025--State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), has seen significant investor adoption of its proxy voting choice offering that empowers investors to direct how shares held in the funds they own are voted. Two years into the program, global investors can now choose from up to 11 non-SSGA voting policies that are available for more than 80% of the index equity assets eligible for the program, comprising approximately $1.9
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