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SPDR S&P Commercial Paper ETF
FUND SUMMARIES SPDR® S&P® Commercial Paper ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR S&P Commercial Paper ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the 1-3 month sector of the United States commercial paper market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR S&P Commercial Paper ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] none
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR S&P Commercial Paper ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the S&P Commercial Paper Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of the United States 1-3 month commercial paper market. The Index is broad based and constituents include commercial paper from all eligible issuers with program sizes greater than $2 billion and ranging from 1-3 months in maturity. Asset-backed issuers are not eligible. To be included in the Index, commercial paper must: (1) be priced by Interactive Data Corporation; (2) have a remaining maturity of between 31 and 91 days; and (3) have a current rating from at least one of Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service or Fitch, Inc. The Index is weighted on a tiered basis based on the maximum program size of the issuing entity; in other words, the larger an issuer’s program size, the greater weight its commercial paper receives in the Index. Specifically, commercial paper of issuers with a maximum program size ranging from $5 billion to $15 billion will have twice the weight in the Index as that of issuers with a maximum program size ranging from $2 billion up to $5 billion. Commercial paper of issuers with a maximum program size of $15 billion and greater will have three times the weight in the Index as that of issuers with a maximum program size of $2 billion up to $5 billion. The Index rebalances monthly and is reconstituted semi-annually. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index and the modified adjusted duration of securities in the Index was approximately [ ] years.

The Index is sponsored by Standard & Poor’s (the “Index Provider”) which is not affiliated with the Fund or the Adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition of the Index, relative weightings of the securities in the Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular investments are difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or securities that become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price. Additionally, the market for certain investments may become illiquid under adverse market or economic conditions independent of any specific adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. In such cases, the Fund, due to limitations on investments in illiquid securities and/or the difficulty in purchasing and selling such investments, may be unable to achieve its desired level of exposure to a certain market or sector and the Fund may not achieve a high degree of correlation with its Index.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2012 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2012 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2012. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2013 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2013 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2013. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2014 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2014 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2014. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2015 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2015 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2015. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2016 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2016 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2016. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2017 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
MANAGEMENT FEES 
DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE (12b-1) FEES[1] none
OTHER EXPENSES[2] 
TOTAL ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2017 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2017. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2018 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2018 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2018. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2019 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2019 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2019. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2020 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2020 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2020. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the performance of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing in 2021 and to provide income that is exempt from regular federal income taxes.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management” or the “Sub-Adviser”), the investment sub-adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. Additionally, the Fund intends to invest, under normal circumstances, 80% of its assets in investments the income of which is exempt from Federal income tax. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”), the investment adviser to the Fund).

The Barclays Capital 2021 Municipal Bond Index is a subset of the Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index (the “Municipal Bond Index”) and consists of bonds within the Municipal Bond Index with a maturity date of 2021. The Municipal Bond Index is a rules-based, market-value-weighted index engineered for the long-term tax-exempt bond market. To be included in the Municipal Bond Index, bonds must be rated investment-grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the following ratings agencies: Moody’s, S&P, Fitch. If only two of the three agencies rate the security, the lower rating is used to determine index eligibility. If only one of the three agencies rates a security, the rating must be investment-grade. They must have an outstanding par value of at least $7 million and be issued as part of a transaction of at least $75 million. The bonds must be fixed rate, have a dated-date after December 31, 1990, and must be at least one year from their maturity date. Remarketed issues, taxable municipal bonds, bonds with floating rates, and derivatives, are excluded from the benchmark. In addition, to be included in the Index, bonds must be rated Aa3/AA- or higher and non callable. Where the ratings assigned by the agencies are not consistent, the Index will use the methodology of Barclays Capital, which uses the middle rating, if three ratings are available and the lower of two ratings if only two ratings are available. Excluded from the Index are (i) bonds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax, (ii) bonds issued for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities or continuing care retirement communities; (iii) bonds issued for single-family or multi-family housing, and (iv) bonds that are issued for “exempt facilities” for industrial development or for pollution control facilities of investor-owned utilities.

For maturity years beginning after December 31, 2015, bonds will not be subject to redemption prior to January 1, 2016. Bonds maturing prior January 1, 2016, will not be subject to redemption prior to the start of the maturity year of the bond. For indices created after December 31, 2010, the first redemption date permitted will be no less than five years from the end of the calendar year in which the fund is. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately [ ] issues included in the Index.

After reaching the maturity date of the bonds in its Index, the Fund intends to either: (i) merge its assets into a separate SPDR ETF that invests in tax-free municipal bonds; (ii) continue operations with a similar objective and strategy and a new maturity date; or (iii) wind up, terminate, and distribute its net assets to then-current shareholders (each, a “Subsequent Strategy”). During the interim period between the Fund’s maturity date and the implementation of its Subsequent Strategy, the Fund will continue to invest in tax-free municipal bonds.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

Passive Strategy/Index Risk. The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

Index Tracking Risk. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

Tax Risk: There is no guarantee that the Fund’s income will be exempt from federal or state income taxes. Events occurring after the date of issuance of a municipal bond or after the Fund’s acquisition of a municipal bond may result in a determination that interest on that bond is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes retroactively to its date of issuance. Such a determination may cause a portion of prior distributions by the Fund to its shareholders to be taxable to those shareholders in the year of receipt. Federal or state changes in income or alternative minimum tax rates or in the tax treatment of municipal bonds may make municipal bonds less attractive as investments and cause them to decline in value.

Political Risk. A significant restructuring of federal income tax rates or even serious discussion on the topic in Congress could cause municipal bond prices to fall. The demand for municipal securities is strongly influenced by the value of tax-exempt income to investors. Lower income tax rates could reduce the advantage of owning municipals.

Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

Fluctuation of Yield and Liquidation Amount Risk. The Fund, unlike a direct investment in a municipal bond that has a level coupon payment and a fixed payment at maturity, will make distributions of income that vary over time. These distributions may be at a greater (or lesser) rate than the coupon payments received on the Fund’s portfolio, which will result in the Fund returning a lesser (or greater) amount on liquidation than would otherwise be the case. In addition. the rate of Fund distribution payments may adversely affect the tax characterization of your returns from an investment in the Fund relative to a direct investment in municipal bonds. If the amount you receive as liquidation proceeds upon the Fund’s termination is higher or lower than your cost basis, you may experience a gain or loss for tax purposes.

Declining Yield Risk. During the period prior to the planned termination date, the Fund’s yield will generally move toward prevailing tax-exempt money market rates, and may be lower than the yields of bonds previously held by the Fund or bonds currently in the market.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR S&P Agency Bond ETF
SPDR® S&P Agency Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR S&P Agency Bond ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. Agency bond market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR S&P Agency Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR S&P Agency Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the S&P U.S. Agency Bond Index (the "Index"), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. ("SSgA FM" or the "Adviser"), the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. The Fund is not a money market fund and does not seek to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of publicly issued debt of U.S. Government agencies, quasi-federal corporations, and corporate debt guaranteed by U.S. Government agencies, such as the FDIC. To be included in Index, a security must meet the following requirements: (i) at least one year to final maturity; (ii) have a minimum amount outstanding of at least $250 million (to remain in the Index, a security must maintain a minimum amount outstanding of at least $125 million); (iii) be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least one of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.); (iv) be fixed rate and non-convertible; (v) not been called; (vi) be denominated in U.S. dollars; (vii) be priced by Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations ("SPSE") (if pricing from SPSE is no longer available for a security included in the Index, the last available price will be used); and (viii) be publicly issued. The Index is market-value weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last business day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

   U.S. Government Agency Securities Risk: Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government as to the timely payment of principal and interest. Securities issued by U.S. government agencies or government-sponsored entities may not be guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury. If a government-sponsored entity is unable to meet its obligations, the performance of the Fund will be adversely impacted.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Bond ETF
SPDR® Barclays Capital Corporate Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Bond ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the corporate sector of the U.S. investment bond market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND'S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Corporate Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes. The Index includes only corporate sectors. The corporate sectors are Industrial, Utility, and Financial Institutions. The Index components are a subset, based on sector, of the issues in the Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Index (the “Credit Index”). The Credit Index includes U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registered, publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures, including global issues that are SEC-registered, and secured notes. To be included in the Credit Index, a security must meet the following requirements: (i) have at least one year to final maturity, regardless of call features; (ii) have at least $250 million par amount outstanding; (iii) be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.); (iv) be fixed rate; (v) be denominated in U.S. dollars and non-convertible; and (vi) be publicly issued. The following instruments are excluded from the Credit Index (and therefore also excluded from the Index): private placements, floating rate securities, Eurobonds and structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features. The Index is market capitalization weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last calendar day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Industrial Bond ETF
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Industrial Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Industrial Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the corporate industrial sector of the U.S. investment bond market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund's shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Industrial Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses[1] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Industrial Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Corporate Industrial Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of the industrial sector of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes. The Index components are a subset, based on sector, of the issues in the Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Index (the “Credit Index”). The Index only includes securities included in the industrial sector of the Credit Index. The Credit Index includes U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registered, publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures, including global issues that are SEC-registered, and secured notes. To be included in the Credit Index, a security must meet the following requirements: (i) have at least one year to final maturity, regardless of call features; (ii) have at least $250 million par amount outstanding; (iii) be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.); (iv) be fixed rate; (v) be denominated in U.S. dollars and non-convertible; and (vi) be publicly issued. The following instruments are excluded from the Credit Index (and therefore also excluded from the Index): private placements, floating rate securities, Eurobonds and structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features. The Index is market capitalization weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last calendar day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Industrial Sector Risk: Stock prices for industrial companies are affected by supply and demand both for their specific product or service and for industrial sector products in general. Government regulation, world events, exchange rates and economic conditions will likewise affect the performance of these companies. Aerospace and defense companies, a component of the industrial sector, can be significantly affected by government spending policies because companies involved in this industry rely to a significant extent on government demand for their products and services. Thus, the financial condition of, and investor interest in, aerospace and defense companies are heavily influenced by governmental defense spending policies which are typically under pressure from efforts to control the government budgets. Transportation stocks, a component of the industrial sector, are cyclical and have occasional sharp price movements which may result from changes in the economy, fuel prices, labor agreements and insurance costs.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Financial Bond ETF
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Financial Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Financial Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the corporate financial sector of the U.S. investment bond market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Financial Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Financial Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Corporate Financial Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of the financial sector of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes. The Index components are a subset, based on sector, of the issues in the Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Index (the “Credit Index”). The Index only includes securities included in the financial sector of the Credit Index. The Credit Index includes U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registered, publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures, including global issues that are SEC-registered, and secured notes. To be included in the Credit Index, a security must meet the following requirements: (i) have at least one year to final maturity, regardless of call features; (ii) have at least $250 million par amount outstanding; (iii) be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.); (iv) be fixed rate; (v) be denominated in U.S. dollars and non-convertible; and (vi) be publicly issued. The following instruments are excluded from the Credit Index (and therefore also excluded from the Index): private placements, floating rate securities, Eurobonds and structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features. The Index is market capitalization weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last calendar day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Financial Sector Risk: Financial services companies are subject to extensive governmental regulation which may limit both the amounts and types of loans and other financial commitments they can make, and the interest rates and fees they can charge. Profitability is largely dependent on the availability and cost of capital funds, and can fluctuate significantly when interest rates change or due to increased competition. In addition, the recent deterioration of the credit markets generally has caused an adverse impact in a broad range of markets, including U.S. and international credit and interbank money markets generally, thereby affecting a wide range of financial institutions and markets. Recent events in the financial sector have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and cause certain financial services companies to incur large losses. Numerous financial services companies have experienced substantial declines in the valuations of their assets, taken action to raise capital (such as the issuance of debt or equity securities), or even ceased operations. These actions have caused the securities of many financial services companies to experience a dramatic decline in value. Credit losses resulting from financial difficulties of borrowers and financial losses associated with investment activities can negatively impact the sector. Insurance companies may be subject to severe price competition.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Utilities Bond ETF
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Utilities Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Utilities Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the corporate utilities sector of the U.S. investment bond market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Utilities Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital Corporate Utilities Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Corporate Utilities Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of the utilities sector of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes. The Index components are a subset, based on sector, of the issues in the Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Index (the “Credit Index”). The Index only includes securities included in the utilities sector of the Credit Index. The Credit Index includes U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registered, publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures, including global issues that are SEC-registered, and secured notes. To be included in the Credit Index, a security must meet the following requirements: (i) have at least one year to final maturity, regardless of call features; (ii) have at least $250 million par amount outstanding; (iii) be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.); (iv) be fixed rate; (v) be denominated in U.S. dollars and non-convertible; and (vi) be publicly issued. The following instruments are excluded from the Credit Index (and therefore also excluded from the Index): private placements, floating rate securities, Eurobonds and structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features. The Index is market capitalization weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last calendar day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

    Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Utilities Sector Risk: The rates that traditional regulated utility companies may charge their customers generally are subject to review and limitation by governmental regulatory commissions. Although rate changes of a utility usually fluctuate in approximate correlation with financing costs due to political and regulatory factors, rate changes ordinarily occur only following a delay after the changes in financing costs. This factor will tend to favorably affect a regulated utility company’s earnings and dividends in times of decreasing costs, but conversely, will tend to adversely affect earnings and dividends when costs are rising. The value of regulated utility debt securities (and, to a lesser extent, equity securities) tends to have an inverse relationship to the movement of interest rates. Certain utility companies have experienced full or partial deregulation in recent years. These utility companies are frequently more similar to industrial companies in that they are subject to greater competition and have been permitted by regulators to diversify outside of their original geographic regions and their traditional lines of business. These opportunities may permit certain utility companies to earn more than their traditional regulated rates of return. Some companies, however, may be forced to defend their core business and may be less profitable.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital Zero Coupon Bond ETF
SPDR Barclays Capital Zero Coupon Bond ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital Zero Coupon Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities (“STRIPS”) registered with the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of Public Debt.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital Zero Coupon Bond ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital Zero Coupon Bond ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury STRIPS Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to tracks the return of STRIPS registered with the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of Public Debt. STRIPS are a type of zero coupon bonds that are direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury. The interest payments (“coupons”) of STRIPS have been separated or “stripped” from the underlying principal by their holder. The principal or corpus is then sold at a deep discount because the buyer receives only the right to receive a future fixed payment on the security and does not receive any rights to periodic interest (cash) payments. When held to maturity, their entire income, which consists of accretion of discount, comes from the difference between the issue price and their value at maturity. The Index includes interest and principal payments stripped from existing U.S. Treasury notes and bonds. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Zero Coupon Bond Risk: Because zero coupon bonds do not pay interest, the market value of zero coupon bonds may exhibit greater price volatility than ordinary debt securities. The market value of zero coupon bonds fall more dramatically than bonds paying interest on a current basis when interest rates rise, and rise more dramatically when interest rates fall.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.
SPDR Barclays Capital CMBS ETF
SPDR Barclays Capital CMBS ETF
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The SPDR Barclays Capital CMBS ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the ERISA-eligible sector of the U.S. dollar denominated investment-grade commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) market.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund . This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
SPDR Barclays Capital CMBS ETF
Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
Management Fees 
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees[1] none
Other Expenses[2] 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense 
[1]The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service (12b-1) Plan pursuant to which payments of up to 0.25% of average daily net assets may be made, however, the Board has determined that no such payments will be made through at least October 31, 2012.
[2]"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
SPDR Barclays Capital CMBS ETF Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Fund
  
Portfolio Turnover:
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.
THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

In seeking to track the performance of the Barclays Capital CMBS ERISA-Eligible Index (the “Index”), the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM” or the “Adviser”) , the investment adviser to the Fund, generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this 80% investment policy. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities that are not included in the Index, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the Adviser).

The Index is designed to measure the performance of the ERISA-eligible sector of the U.S. dollar denominated investment-grade commercial mortgage backed securities market. The Index is part of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index. To be included in the Index, the following criteria must be met: (i) the original aggregate transaction must have a minimum deal size of $500 million and a minimum tranche size of $25 million, and the aggregate outstanding transaction size must be at least $300 million to remain in the Index; (ii) collateral for each transaction must be new origination and originated specifically for securitization; (iii) certificates must have an expected life of one year; (iv) certificates must be either fixed rate weighted average coupon (WAC) or capped WAC securities; and (v) the security must be ERISA-eligible. ERISA-eligible securities refer to those asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities that are covered by the various prohibited transaction exemptions granted by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), known as the “Underwriter Exemptions.” Additionally, securities must be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB- or higher) by at least two of the rating agencies (Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s, Inc. and Fitch Inc.). Excluded from the Index are floating rate certificates and securities issued under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Index is market capitalization weighted and the securities in the Index are updated on the last business day of each month. As of [ ], there were approximately [ ] securities in the Index.

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund.

   Passive Strategy/Index Risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund may hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.

   Index Tracking Risk: While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Fund’s return may not match or achieve a high degree of correlation with the return of the Index due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, the Adviser anticipates that it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.

   Debt Securities Investing Risk: The value of the debt securities may increase or decrease as a result of the following: market fluctuations, increases in interest rates, inability of issuers to repay principal and interest or illiquidity in debt securities markets; the risk of low rates of return due to reinvestment of securities during periods of falling interest rates or repayment by issuers with higher coupon or interest rates; and/or the risk of low income due to falling interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a reduction in income from debt securities income.

   Prepayment Risk: The Fund may invest in mortgage-related securities, which may be paid off early if the borrower on the underlying mortgage prepays the mortgage or refinances the mortgage prior to the maturity date. If interest rates are falling, the Fund may have to reinvest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund’s income.

   Extension Risk: The Fund may invest in mortgage-related securities and therefore, to the extent that interest rates rise, certain mortgage backed securities may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. This may result in a decline to the Fund’s income.

   Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk: Mortgage-backed securities, other than GNMA mortgage-backed securities, are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, and there can be no assurance that the U.S. government would provide financial support to its agencies or instrumentalities where it is not obligated to do so. Mortgage-backed securities tend to increase in value less than other debt securities when interest rates decline, but are subject to similar risk of decline in market value during periods of rising interest rates. Because of prepayment and extension risk, mortgage-backed securities react differently to changes in interest rates than other bonds. Small movements in interest rates (both increases and decreases) may quickly and significantly affect the value of certain mortgage-backed securities.

   Non-Diversification Risk: The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a few issuers or a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be disproportionately impacted by the performance of relatively few securities.

FUND PERFORMANCE
The Fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus and therefore the Fund does not have a full calendar year of performance information.