SPDR S&P Emerging Asia Pacific ETF

The fund seeks to replicate the total return performance of the benchmark index, before fees and expenses, by investing in companies outside the United States.

The investment process starts with a list of companies in the benchmark index and the research team utilizes quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.

Next, the research team invests significantly in the securities comprising the Index and in depositary receipts (including American Depositary Receipts or Global Depositary Receipts) based on securities comprising the Index.

The Index is designed to define and measure the investable universe of publicly traded companies domiciled in emerging Asian Pacific markets.

The research team employs a sampling strategy, which means that the fund will hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index.

Or, the fund seeks to replicate the composition of the benchmark index, holding each security in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.

Then the manager constructs a portfolio of stocks from a list of companies favored by the research team and allocates capital based on its conviction level.

Also, the fund’s assets may be concentrated in an industry or group of industries, but only to the extent that the Index concentrates in a particular industry or group of industries.

In addition, the fund may invest in equity securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds.