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Why invest in SPY?

SPY’s immense size and liquidity inspire innovative use cases that help investors meet their investment goals.

5 advanced ways to use SPY

Click to discover the creative ways institutional investors and traders can invest in SPY.

1

Flexibility in execution

Flexibility in execution

The depth of SPY’s secondary market enables a wide range of execution strategies and offers implicit transaction cost benefits.

2

Hedging

Hedging

When investors anticipate a market downturn, SPY can act as a hedge to potentially safeguard portfolios against downside risks. 

3

Liquidity management

Liquidity management

Because SPY is highly liquid, you can use it to manage portfolio liquidity—as a source of cash for redemption requests, a liquidity sleeve, and more.

4

Options volume

Options volume

Options can be used by institutional traders in a variety of ways. And SPY made up 41% of all ETF options volume in 2025.1

5

Securities lending

Securities lending

Large investors can use SPY as an additional source of income via securities lending—the process of loaning ETF shares to other investors.

6 traditional ways to invest in SPY

Click to learn how everyday investors can use SPY in their portfolios.

1

Diversification

Diversification

With SPY, gain exposure to more than 500 companies in a single trade via the S&P 500®—helping you efficiently build diversified portfolios.

2

Managing risk

Managing risk

Everyday investors can use SPY to manage risk in ways only institutional traders could access previously.

3

Strategic asset allocation

Strategic asset allocation

Buy and hold SPY in a portfolio to potentially capture long-term growth.

4

Liquidity

Liquidity

As the world’s most traded and most liquid ETF,2 SPY can help you get in and out of the market fast, easily, and at a relatively attractive cost.

5

Transition management

Transition management

With SPY, you can stay invested in the broad US equity market while you determine your next investment move.

6

Tactical asset allocation

Tactical asset allocation

You can use SPY as a liquid proxy for large-cap US stocks when making tactical allocation decisions.

One firm. Two S&P 500 ETFs.

We offer two S&P 500 ETFs—SPY and SPYM—to help you build portfolios with greater purpose and precision.

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