State Street Global Advisors Advances Commitment to Alpha Generation for Global Investors; New Hires Underscore SSgA's Commitme
July 18 2006 - 8:31AM
Business Wire
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the largest institutional
money manager in the world, announced today a major expansion of
its alternative strategies capabilities. This new initiative
encompasses a significant broadening of SSgA's traditional
long-short strategies to include a new line-up of cutting edge
absolute return strategies, an infusion of new investment
professionals, and a joint development relationship with an
innovative quantitative investment management boutique. SSgA has
managed absolute return strategies since the early 1990s. Today the
firm makes available to clients a wide variety of absolute return
strategies, including currency, long/short, market neutral, fixed
income arbitrage and equity hedge/directional strategies, totaling
approximately $4 billion in assets (as of March 31, 2006). With
this effort, SSgA is bringing greater focus to the management of
its alternative strategies. The current staff of investment
professionals is led by Chris Woods, and was recently expanded to
include new high profile hires of Jonathan Chanis, Henri Fouda, and
Todor Georgiev formerly of Caxton Associates, Mellon Capital
Management and KBC Alternative Asset Management, respectively. The
three bring with them experience managing emerging market,
commodity, global macro and capital structure arbitrage strategies.
Woods and his team report to Sean Flannery, CIO North America and
to Jane Tisdale, senior managing director of Absolute Return
Strategies. The team is also supported by SSgA's Advanced Research
Center, a group of more than twenty five analysts with advanced
degrees in mathematics and applied finance disciplines.
Additionally, a license has been entered into for dynamic
allocation software developed by AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, a
Cambridge, Mass.-based quantitative investment management company
led by Andrew W. Lo, Ph.D., managing member and chief scientific
officer. Dr. Lo is the director of the MIT Laboratory of Financial
Engineering, and the Harris & Harris Group Professor at the MIT
Sloan School of Management. "The combination of our risk management
expertise and AlphaSimplex's tools for dynamic asset allocation
distinguishes us in this competitive industry," said Woods.
"Designed specifically to address the heterogeneous risk exposures
implicit in different absolute return strategies, the software
transcends traditional asset allocation analytics which don't
typically take into account some of the unique risk factors faced
by these strategies." "This initiative signals a high level of
commitment to alternative investment strategies and allows us
greater flexibility to build standard and customized alpha
investment solutions for our clients," said Flannery. "It also
provides flexibility to offer absolute return strategies to a wide
range of clients on a worldwide basis. Lastly, by establishing a
focused business, we can more easily adapt to changing market
conditions in our single-minded pursuit of alpha." SSgA's increased
commitment to absolute return strategies comes at a time of rising
institutional demand and we are uniquely positioned to capture a
share of this growing marketplace. We intend to provide
institutions with access to alpha through investment with a firm
that has a long fiduciary heritage. SSgA's well-tested operational
environment, and deep knowledge of risk management, differentiates
the firm along with its global reach and experience managing across
the entire spectrum of asset classes. This breadth allows the
operational flexibility to access multiple strategies in the
pursuit of alpha, while at the same time aiming to offer clients a
high level of transparency, accountability and fiduciary comfort.
SSgA will accomplish this flexibility through the establishment of
a limited purpose trust company, State Street Global Advisors
Capital Management Trust Company, LLC. About State Street Global
Advisors State Street Global Advisors, the investment management
group of State Street Corporation, delivers investment strategies
and integrated solutions to clients worldwide across every asset
class, investment approach and style. With $1.5 trillion in
investment programs and portfolios at June 30, 2006, State Street
Global Advisors has investment centers in Boston, Hong Kong,
London, Milan, Montreal, Munich, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo,
and Zurich, and offices in 25 cities worldwide. For more
information, visit State Street Global Advisors at www.ssga.com.
About SSgA Capital Management State Street Global Advisors Capital
Management Trust Company, LLC, is a New Hampshire-chartered,
limited-purpose, nondepository trust company, and a wholly-owned
subsidiary of State Street Corporation, a financial holding company
supervised by the Federal Reserve Board. About State Street
Corporation State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's
leading specialist in providing institutional investors with
investment servicing, investment management and investment research
and trading services. With $10.9 trillion in assets under custody
and $1.5 trillion in assets under management at June 30, 2006,
State Street operates in 26 countries and more than 100 geographic
markets worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's web
site at www.statestreet.com.
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