Posts for Ticker ‘IPF’

State Street ETF Launch: International Financial Sector (STT, IPF)

State_street_ssga_logo_2State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has announced that its State Street Global Advisors unit is launching 10 new SPDR exchange-traded funds, which are supposed to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange today.

SPDR(R) S&P(R) International Financial Sector ETF (AMEX: IPF)      

  • This index includes more than 1,000 non-US financial services companies with market caps of over $100 million.

These ETF’s are benchmarked to a series of the S&P(R) World ex-U.S. Broad Market Indices, which are market cap weighted with only non-US holdings.  The expense ratio on each of these ten ETF’s is listed as 0.50%.

Jon C. Ogg
July 22, 2008