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Sector Investing Precise Exposures and Valued Insights from the Market Leader

Return dispersion among sectors can create opportunities for investors to pursue alpha, manage risk, or capture cyclical or thematic trends. As the world’s first and largest sector ETF provider,¹ State Street SPDR ETFs provide targeted, efficient strategies that investors can use to express their views with precision across the business cycle.

A Leader in Sector Investing

Since launching the world’s first suite of sector ETFs in 1998, we have been committed to using our expertise in indexing, portfolio construction and liquidity management to provide efficient tools for executing sector investing strategies. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers, giving us the resources and ability to deliver scalable sector ETF solutions for investors of all sizes.

first and largest sector ETF provider in the world ¹

$229B

in sector strategies globally ²

20+

years of experience managing sector ETFs

Delivering Liquidity Across Sectors

Our scale in sector ETFs has resulted in deep liquidity, tight trading spreads and a robust, efficient market that provides flexibility for investors.

Trading Volume

The average trading volume for our sector ETFs is 10x greater than the next-largest competitor.³

Short Interest and Options Activity

Our sector ETFs have had significant short interest and options activity. This is beneficial for investors regardless of how they use sector ETFs, as it contributes to the depth and liquidity of the market.

Total Cost of Ownership

The liquidity profile of our sector ETFs can help to reduce trading costs, which lowers the total cost of ownership—a key consideration in sector rotation strategies.

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Learn how investors are using sector ETFs to target opportunities created by return dispersion, manage risk through diversification, position for business cycles or express thematic market views.

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Reliability Across the Business Cycle

Whether investors are looking to use a top-down, bottom-up or technical approach to portfolio construction, our sector, industry and New Economy ETFs are designed to deliver the exposures investors need to efficiently target risk and return drivers across all phases of the business cycle.

Thoughtfully Constructed

Our sector and industry ETFs are built using the widely recognized Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and seek to track Standard & Poor’s indices.

The New Economy ETFs leverage artificial intelligence capabilities to unearth innovative companies across different sectors.

Rigorously Maintained

We continuously monitor our ETFs to ensure that they deliver the exposures investors expect. The portfolio management teams work diligently to minimize tracking error across all sector investing strategies.

Continuously Evolved

We adapt our suite of sector and industry investing strategies to reflect changes to GICS. For example, in 2018, we worked quickly to launch a communication services sector ETF given the addition of this sector to GICS.

Our Latest Thinking

We deliver differentiated ideas for how to act on opportunities created by sector return dispersion, as well as sectors’ varying correlations to the broader market and to each other.

Sector Dashboard

Our quarterly dashboard provides data and insights on recent positioning trends as well as information on each sector’s momentum, valuation and implied volatility to help clients navigate the quarter to come.

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Our Solutions

Whether investors are looking to strengthen their core through strategic allocations or tactically capitalize on market opportunities, we offer a range of ETFs designed to be efficient building blocks for expressing their views.

Sector ETFs

Based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), these ETFs cover high-level sectors, such as health care, materials and utilities.

Industry ETFs

Slightly more targeted than broad sector exposures, the industry ETFs cover more granular segments of the economy such as health care equipment, homebuilders, and oil & gas exploration & production.

Kensho® New Economy ETFs

These thematic ETFs are designed to target emerging technologies and innovation reshaping the global economy, such as clean power, intelligent infrastructure and smart transportation.

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