“ASC) 810-10-50-2, “A Change in the Difference Between Parent and Subsidiary Fiscal Year-Ends,”SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources is an open-end investment management company. The SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of an index that tracks publicly traded companies in natural resources and/or commodities businesses. In seeking this objective, the Fund uses a sampling strategy. As of Sep 30 2015, the Fund has total assets of $569,821,530 and its investment portfolio is valued at $619,688,999. The GNR YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the GNR 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 GNR 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 GNR 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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