SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital Short Term Municipal Bond is an open-end investment management company. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital Managed Money Municipal Short Term Index (the Index). The Index tracks publicly traded municipal bonds that cover the United States dollar-denominated, short-term tax exempt bond market, including state and local general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, insured bonds and pre-refunded bonds. As of June 30 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment porfolio totaled $2,614,858,243 and $2,579,258,555, respectively. The SHM YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SHM 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 SHM 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 SHM 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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