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State Street gender fund fails to live up to its name, says Morningstar

SPDR Gender Diversity ETF supported just 20% of gender diversity resolutions

State Street's "Fearless Girl" facing the New York Stock Exchange in New York City
State Street's "Fearless Girl" facing the New York Stock Exchange in New York City Photo: Getty Images

State Street Global Advisors won praise in March 2017, when it unveiled a bronze sculpture on Wall Street called Fearless Girl, whose defiant pose was meant to represent the fight for gender equity in the American workplace.

But according to a study released Monday by investment research firm Morningstar, State Street’s gender diversity fund has voted for only 20% of shareholder resolutions put before it addressing gender and diversity, a record that “seems at odds with the investment objective stated in the fund’s prospectus,” according to Madison Sargis, associate director of quantitative research at Morningstar.

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