Today, State Street Investment Management (State Street IM) and Ninety One, have announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership, paving the way for a suite of active co-branded ETFs.
Through this partnership, the firms will collaborate to introduce a suite of new active ETF products, providing investors across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, with access to asset classes across developed and emerging markets. The initial launches will be focused on actively-managed global equities and emerging markets UCITS ETFs.
Demand for ETFs continues to grow globally, including within the EMEA region, as investors seek to diversify their portfolios amid ongoing geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, while benefitting from the flexibility, transparency, speed and cost-effectiveness of the ETF wrapper.
“Our goal is to drive innovation within the industry, deploying our extensive expertise and capabilities to identify and create solutions for investors,” explains Yie-Hsin Hung, chief executive officer of State Street Investment Management. “This exciting evolution in State Street’s longstanding partnership with Ninety One has led to the creation of several deeply compelling investment opportunities across emerging and developed markets through a new suite of actively-managed ETF products. Through this partnership, both firms will work in tandem to ensure that investors can benefit from the deeply compelling investment opportunities at play across both emerging and developed markets around the world.”
As one of the world’s largest investment managers and with a focus on innovation, State Street IM will utilise its global distribution capabilities, ETF platform and product structuring expertise to bring these strategies to market at scale.
Ninety One, a global investment manager with an emerging markets heritage will, pursuant to the partnership, make available its high-conviction active investment capabilities across global equities, specialist fixed income and emerging markets. Ninety One’s strategies will be complementary to State Street IM’s existing ETF product suite.
Investors are increasingly seeking to diversify further beyond US equities, which have long dominated global portfolios, driving renewed interest in international and emerging market opportunities. Recent data from State Street highlights that flows have remained strong into EMEA-domiciled active ETF products, with 11.6% growth in AUM within this cohort of funds to date in 2026 and particularly strong growth in Global Equity and EM equity funds.
Hendrik du Toit, founder and chief executive at Ninety One, commented: “In an uncertain world, the ability to invest globally with high conviction matters more than ever. This partnership brings together Ninety One’s active investment capabilities with State Street IM’s global reach and ETF expertise, creating a powerful platform to deliver solutions for clients worldwide. We have long believed that uncertainty creates opportunity for active investors, and this partnership will provide access to an exciting high-quality active offering."