Our Story

As an essential partner to institutional investors, our purpose is to help create better outcomes for the world’s investors and the people they serve. Our clients — asset managers and owners, insurance companies, official institutions and central banks — rely on us to deliver solutions that support their goals across the investment life cycle. 

Through our investment servicing business, we provide core custody, accounting and fund administration, and performance analytics for traditional and alternative assets as well as multi-asset class investments. Our global markets capabilities span electronic trading, securities lending, and collateral and liquidity management, along with specialized investment research and market insights. 

As the first-ever front-to-back platform offered by a single provider, State Street AlphaSM connects investment tools, insights and partners for greater speed and efficiency across the front, middle and back office. With State Street DigitalSM, we’re building on our strong digital services platforms and solutions to help clients transition and thrive in the new digital economy.

Our investment management business, State Street Global Advisors, is the world’s fourth-largest asset manager and a pioneer in ETF and index investing. Global Advisors provides investment solutions across the risk-return spectrum, covering all major asset classes, investment styles, and vehicles.

We strive to achieve excellence for all of our stakeholders — our clients, shareholders, employees and the communities where we live and work. That commitment has earned us recognition in key industry surveys and awards.