SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US is an open-end management investment company. The SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of an index based upon broad based world (ex-U.S.) equity markets. In seeking this objective, the Fund uses a sampling strategy. As of Sept 30 2015, the Fund's total assets were $715,311,358 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $748,231,561. The CWI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CWI YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether CWI YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the CWI YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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