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About SPDR S&P500 US$
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Inception date
Jan 22, 1993
Structure
Unit Investment Trust
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
State Street Global Advisors Trust Co.
Distributor
ALPS Distributors, Inc.
SPY is the best-recognized and oldest US listed ETF and typically tops rankings for largest AUM and greatest trading volume. The fund tracks the massively popular US index, the S&P 500. Few realize that S&P's index committee chooses 500 securities to represent the US large-cap space - not necessarily the 500 largest by market cap, which can lead to some omissions of single names. Still, the index offers outstanding exposure to the US large-cap space. It's important to note, SPY is a unit investment trust, an older but entirely viable structure. As a UIT, SPY must fully replicate its index (it probably would anyway) and forgo the small risk and reward of securities lending. It also can`t reinvest portfolio dividends between distributions, the resulting cash drag will slightly hurt performance in up markets and help in downtrends. SPY is a favored vanilla trading vehicle.
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Electronic Technology
Technology Services
Finance
Stocks99.63%
Electronic Technology20.40%
Technology Services19.85%
Finance15.80%
Health Technology8.46%
Retail Trade8.23%
Consumer Non-Durables4.22%
Producer Manufacturing3.16%
Consumer Services3.00%
Utilities2.93%
Energy Minerals2.56%
Consumer Durables2.08%
Health Services1.69%
Process Industries1.55%
Transportation1.53%
Communications1.08%
Distribution Services0.99%
Commercial Services0.86%
Industrial Services0.71%
Non-Energy Minerals0.49%
Miscellaneous0.05%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.37%
Cash0.37%
Stock breakdown by region
North America97.42%
Europe2.58%
Latin America0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history