State Street Global Markets
State Street Corporation is the world's leading provider of financial services to sophisticated global investors, with more than CAD 9.16 trillion in assets under custody and CAD 1.1 trillion in assets under management. Since establishing a presence in Toronto in 1990, State Street now employs over 700 employees in offices located in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. State Street Global Markets (SSGM), a division of State Street Corporation, offers proprietary trading and investment services to global investment managers through a comprehensive range of products across multiple asset classes. SSGM’s aggregated businesses include:

Foreign Exchange and Money Markets
State Street is one of the ten largest foreign exchange trading operations in the world, providing competitive pricing, integrated research and strategy tools, proprietary market information, and efficient trade settlement to investment managers. State Street’s FX trading desks are located in Boston, Toronto, London, Luxembourg, Munich, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney, allowing customers to transact spot, forward, swap, and option contracts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by telephone or electronically via FX Connect®.

Money Markets provides overnight and short-term investment products and services focused on efficient and high-quality value added services. Benefits to investors include elimination of fails for in-house transactions, reduced settlement charges, straight-through-processing, automated transaction and settlement services, and customer-focused customized solutions.

Global Link
Global Link is State Street’s multi-asset class electronic network for market research, portfolio analytics, trade order management, execution, reporting, and settlement. Global Link offers pre-trade, trade, and post-trade connectivity through a single network to maximize efficiency, reduce risk, and optimize returns. Global Link is used in 22 countries by the world's largest institutional investors. Collectively, Global Link users invest over half the world's professionally managed cross-border assets.

State Street Associates
Combining the experience and global assets of State Street with the intellectual capital of Windham Capital Management Boston, LLC and FDO Partners, LLC, State Street Associates, LLC (SSA) delivers preeminent research in global asset allocation and currency management. SSA's products and services are available as analytical tools on Global Link.

State Street Global Markets Canada Inc.
State Street Global Markets Canada Inc. provides institutional investors with equities and fixed income brokerage services in addition to Transition Management and Commission Recapture programmes.

• Transition Management is the process of converting securities from an existing portfolio to a new target structure. State Street’s Transition Management programme employs comprehensive controls to mitigate the risks and costs associated with both simple and complex asset transitions.

• Commission Recapture offers a single interface to facilitate the transition of commissions from multiple brokers into valuable credits. These credits can be used to offset fund expenses, ultimately benefiting fund participants.