State Street’s 2021 Proxy Voting Agenda
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) released its eagerly awaited 2021 proxy voting agenda earlier this week and, unsurprisingly, climate change risk and the lack of racial and ethnic diversity are among the investor’s top priorities. In the annual letter from the President and CEO Cyrus Taraporevala (CEO’s Letter), companies are urged to increase their transparency around racial and ethnic diversity. “The preponderance of evidence demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that racial and ethnic inequity is a…