State Street will begin trading its new “SPDR Nuveen S&P High Yield Municipal Bond ETF” (NYSE:HYMB) Thursday April, 14 2011. The SPDR Nuveen S&P High Yield Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. high yield municipal bond market and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
THE FUND’S INVESTMENT STRATEGY
In seeking to track the performance of the S&P Municipal High Yield Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.
Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser has determined have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, futures, options, swap contracts and other derivatives, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the adviser to the Fund).
The Index is designed to measure the performance of high yield municipal bonds issued by U.S. states and territories or local governments or agencies, such that interest on the securities is exempt from U.S. federal income tax, but may be subject to the alternative minimum tax and to state and local income taxes. High yield securities are generally rated below investment grade and are commonly referred to as “junk bonds.” The Index is a sub-set of the Standard & Poor’s/Investortools Municipal Bond Index and the Standard & Poor’s/Investortools High Yield Bond Index and includes publicly issued U.S. dollar denominated, fixed rate, municipal bonds that have a remaining maturity of at least one year. The index will consist of categories of bonds in the following proportions: (i) 75% of the Index constituents are components of the Standard & Poor’s/Investortools High Yield Bond Index, which are non-rated or are rated below investment grade (ii) 15% of the Index constituents are components of the Standard & Poor’s/Investortools Bond Index that are rated Baa3, Baa2, or Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service, or BBB-, BBB, or BBB+ by Standard and Poor’s or Fitch; and (iii) 10% of the Index constituents are components of the Standard & Poor’s/Investortools Bond Index that are rated A3, A2, or A1 by Moody’s Investor Services, or A-, A, or A+ by Standard & Poor’s or Fitch. Bonds that have been escrowed will not be included in the Index. Prerefunded Bonds will not be included in the Index. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the index will use the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available.
The Standard & Poor’s/Investortools Municipal Bond Index is composed of bonds held by managed municipal bond fund customers of Standard & Poor’s Securities Pricing, Inc. that are priced daily. Index calculations are provided by Investortools, Inc. Only bonds with total outstanding amounts of $2,000,000 or more qualify for inclusion. The Standard and Poor’s/Investortools Municipal Bond High Yield Index is comprised of all bonds in the Standard and Poor’s/Investortools Municipal Bond Index that are non-rated or whose ratings are BB+ S&P and /or BA-1 Moody’s or lower. This index does not contain bonds that are prerefunded or are escrowed to maturity.
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