SPDR Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond is an open-end investment management company. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index (the Index). The Index provides a measure of the performance of the United States dollar denominated investment grade bond market, which includes investment grade government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass through securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and asset backed securities. As of June 30 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment porfolio totaled $1,073,840,938 and $1,067,931,692, respectively. The SPAB YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SPAB 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 SPAB 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 SPAB 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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