State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management
business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), announced recent
updates to the composition of the SSGA Gender Diversity Index
(Index).
The Index, which was first launched in March 2016, tracks US
exchange-listed large capitalization companies with the highest
levels of gender diversity within their sectors on their boards of
directors and in their senior leadership.
The top ten companies added to the Index as a result of the
annual rebalance, effective after the close of trading on July 15,
2016, according to Index weighting, include Pfizer Inc., PepsiCo,
3M, Mastercard, Starbucks, DuPont, Biogen, Salesforce, Target, and
The Kroger Co.
“We applaud the new additions for their efforts in confronting
the gender diversity challenge by hiring and retaining women in
senior leadership,” said Ronald O’Hanley, president and chief
executive officer of State Street Global Advisors. “As an
organization, we are deeply committed to helping to close the
gender gap in the workplace, but cannot achieve this goal on our
own. We need to work together to strengthen gender diversity and
inclusion practices across corporate America.”
The SSGA Gender Diversity Index is rebalanced on an annual basis
to ensure that the selection of the constituents continues to
reflect the underlying Index objective: tracking the performance of
US large-capitalization companies that are leaders within their
sectors in advancing women through gender diversity on their boards
of directors and in senior leadership positions. Pursuant to the
rules-based Index methodology, SSGA conducted a comprehensive
review of the companies listed in the Index and added 88 new
corporations that have made their mark in achieving the highest
levels of senior leadership gender diversity within their
sectors.
“Companies in the Index have demonstrated a track record of
employing women in their senior management ranks,” said Jennifer
Bender, director of research for the global equity beta solutions
group. “By focusing on US companies that have the highest
percentages of women in senior leadership positions relative to
their sector peers, we designed this Index as an effort to reflect
companies that are committed to gender diversity.”
According to a 2015 MSCI1 study that explored global trends in
gender diversity on corporate boards between December 2009 and
August 2015, companies with at least three female board members, or
companies with a higher percentage of women on the board than its
country’s average, performed better as measured by return on equity
(10.1% per year versus 7.4% for all other companies).2 Despite
these findings, American women account for an average of just 16
percent of the members of executive teams.3
In March 2016, SSGA introduced the SPDR® SSGA Gender Diversity
Index ETF (the “Fund”) (Ticker: SHE), which is designed to track
the performance of the SSGA Gender Diversity Index. The Fund is
distributed by State Street Global Markets, LLC.
About State Street Global Advisors
For nearly four decades, State Street Global Advisors has been
committed to helping our clients, and those who rely on them,
achieve financial security. We partner with many of the world’s
largest, most sophisticated investors and financial intermediaries
to help them reach their goals through a rigorous, research-driven
investment process spanning both indexing and active disciplines.
With trillions* in assets under management, our scale and global
reach offer clients access to markets, geographies and asset
classes, and allow us to deliver thoughtful insights and innovative
solutions.
State Street Global Advisors is the investment management arm of
State Street Corporation.
*Assets under management were $2.3 trillion as of June 30,
2016. AUM reflects approx. $40 billion (as of 6/30/2016) with
respect to which State Street Global Markets, LLC (SSGM) serves as
marketing agent; SSGM and State Street Global Advisors are
affiliated.
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1 The methodology used in MSCI’s study is different than that of
the Index, and as such, the results of the study should not be
viewed as indicative of the future performance of the Index.
2 Return on equity is not representative of the performance of
any investment or the potential return of Index.
3 Lee, Linda-Eling , et al. Women on Boards: Global Trends in
Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards, MSCI, November 2015. Accessed
on February 17th, 2016 at:
https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/04b6f646-d638-4878-9c61-4eb91748a82b
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