PowerShares DWA Developed Markets Technical Leaders Portfolio is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before the Fund's fees and expenses) of an index called the Dorsey Wright Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index. The Index includes equity securities of issuers from countries deemed to have developed economics, selected by the Index provider, and is designed to identify companies that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's total assets were $522,364,217 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $513,713,829. The PIZ YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the PIZ 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 PIZ 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 PIZ 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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