State Street IM, Ninety One launch global and EM active ETFs

State Street Investment Management and Ninety One have agreed to a strategic partnership to launch co-branded, actively managed UCITS exchange-traded funds focused on global equities and emerging markets. The funds will be offered to investors across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.

The initial products will target actively managed global equity and emerging-market UCITS ETF strategies. The ETF structure will allow intraday trading and use a regulatory framework familiar to European cross-border investors.

Under the agreement, State Street IM will provide its global distribution network, ETF platform and product-structuring capabilities. Ninety One will contribute active investment strategies drawn from its emerging-markets experience, including high-conviction global equity and specialist fixed-income approaches. The partners said the new strategies will complement State Street’s existing ETF lineup.

Both firms pointed to continued investor interest in ETFs as a distribution vehicle and to demand for broader exposure beyond U.S. equities. They identified geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty as factors increasing demand for diversified international and emerging-market allocations.

State Street referenced internal data showing assets under management in EMEA-domiciled active ETFs rose 11.6 percent year to date in 2026, with notable inflows into global equity and emerging-market equity funds.

Yie-Hsin Hung, chief executive officer of State Street Investment Management, described the partnership’s aim as creating investor solutions by combining the firms’ capabilities. “Our goal is to drive innovation within the industry,” Hung said in a statement.

Hendrik du Toit, founder and chief executive at Ninety One, noted that active management can help in volatile markets and that the partnership will provide access to Ninety One’s high-conviction strategies for clients worldwide.

The firms did not disclose specific launch dates, a full list of initial funds or details on domiciles and seed capital for the ETFs. They said distribution will cover EMEA, LATAM and APAC but gave no further timetable.