As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 29, 2012
Securities Act File No. 333-57793
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-08839
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT | ||||||
UNDER | ||||||
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | x | |||||
Post-Effective Amendment No. 87 | x | |||||
And | ||||||
REGISTRATION STATEMENT | ||||||
UNDER | ||||||
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | x | |||||
Amendment No. 89 |
SPDR® SERIES TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
One Lincoln Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Registrants Telephone Number: (866) 787-2257
Ryan M. Louvar, Esq.
State Street Bank and Trust Company
One Lincoln Street/CPH0326
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
W. John McGuire, Esq.
Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP
1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004
It is proposed that this filing will become effective:
x | immediately upon filing pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (b) |
¨ | on pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (b) |
¨ | 60 days after filing pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (a)(1) |
¨ | on pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (a)(1) |
¨ | 75 days after filing pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (a)(2) |
¨ | on pursuant to Rule 485, paragraph (a)(2) |
¨ | this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this registration statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has caused this amendment to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 29th day of June, 2012.
SPDR® SERIES TRUST | ||
By: | /s/ James E. Ross* | |
James E. Ross | ||
President |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this amendment to the registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:
SIGNATURES | TITLE | DATE | ||
/s/ Bonny E. Boatman* |
Trustee | June 29, 2012 | ||
Bonny E. Boatman | ||||
/s/ Dwight D. Churchill* |
Trustee | June 29, 2012 | ||
Dwight D. Churchill | ||||
/s/ David M. Kelly* |
Trustee | June 29, 2012 | ||
David M. Kelly | ||||
/s/ Frank Nesvet* |
Trustee | June 29, 2012 | ||
Frank Nesvet | ||||
/s/ Carl G. Verboncoeur* |
Trustee | June 29, 2012 | ||
Carl G. Verboncoeur | ||||
/s/ James E. Ross* |
Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer | June 29, 2012 | ||
James E. Ross | ||||
/s/ Chad C. Hallett |
Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer | June 29, 2012 | ||
Chad C. Hallett |
*By: | /s/ Scott E. Habeeb | |
Scott E. Habeeb | ||
As Attorney-in-Fact Pursuant to Power of Attorney |
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Registrant Name | dei_EntityRegistrantName | SPDR SERIES TRUST | ||||||
Prospectus Date | rr_ProspectusDate | Jun. 18, 2012 | ||||||
SPDR BofA Merrill Lynch Crossover Corporate Bond ETF
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Risk/Return: | rr_RiskReturnAbstract | |||||||
Risk/Return [Heading] | rr_RiskReturnHeading | SPDR® BofA Merrill Lynch Crossover Corporate Bond ETF | ||||||
Objective [Heading] | rr_ObjectiveHeading | INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE |
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Objective, Primary [Text Block] | rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock | The SPDR BofA Merrill Lynch Crossover 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 U.S. crossover corporate bond market. |
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Expense [Heading] | rr_ExpenseHeading | FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND | ||||||
Expense Narrative [Text Block] | rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock | This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). This table and the example below do not reflect brokerage commissions you may pay on purchases and sales of the Fund’s Shares. | ||||||
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] | rr_OperatingExpensesCaption | ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment): | ||||||
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] | rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading | PORTFOLIO TURNOVER: | ||||||
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] | rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock | 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. | ||||||
Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text] | rr_OtherExpensesNewFundBasedOnEstimates | “Other Expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. | ||||||
Expense Example [Heading] | rr_ExpenseExampleHeading | EXAMPLE: | ||||||
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] | rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock | 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: | ||||||
Strategy [Heading] | rr_StrategyHeading | THE FUND’S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY | ||||||
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] | rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock | In seeking to track the performance of the BofA Merrill Lynch US Diversified Crossover Corporate 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 the Adviser determines have economic characteristics 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 debt 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 US dollar denominated BBB and BB corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market. “Crossover” corporate debt generally means corporate debt rated at levels where the lower end of investment grade debt and the higher end of high yield debt meet. Qualifying securities must be rated BBB1 through BB3, inclusive (based on an average of Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), Fitch, Inc. (“Fitch”), or Standard & Poor’s, Inc. (“S&P”). Qualifying corporate issuers must have a primary risk exposure to an FX G10 or Western European country, or a territory of the US or a Western European country. Individual securities of qualifying issuers must have a fixed coupon schedule and a minimum amount outstanding of $250 million. Original issue zero coupon bonds, 144A securities, both with and without registration rights, and pay-in-kind securities, including toggle notes, qualify for inclusion. Callable perpetual securities qualify provided they are at least one year from the first call date. Fixed-to-floating rate securities also qualify provided they are callable within the fixed rate period and are at least one year from the last call prior to the date the bond transitions from a fixed to a floating rate security. Eurodollar securities (USD securities not issued in the US domestic market), Tier 1 subordinated debt, taxable and tax-exempt US municipal, warrant-bearing, DRD-eligible and defaulted securities are excluded from the Index. Qualifying constituents are segmented into two groups: those rated between BBB1 and BBB3, inclusive, and those rated between BB1 and BB3, inclusive. Within the two groups, constituents are capitalization-weighted. Each group is then assigned a 50% weight in the overall index; with a 2% cap on each issuer. Accrued interest is calculated assuming next-day settlement. Cash flows from bond payments that are received during the month are retained in the index until the end of the month and then are removed as part of the rebalancing. Cash does not earn any reinvestment income while it is held in the Index. The Index is rebalanced on the last calendar day of the month, based on information available up to and including the third business day before the last business day of the month. Issues that meet the qualifying criteria are included in the Index for the following month. Issues that no longer meet the criteria during the course of the month remain in the Index until the next month-end rebalancing at which point they are removed from the Index. As of May 31, 2012, there were approximately 3,029 securities in the Index and the modified adjusted duration of securities in the Index was approximately 5.68 years. The Index is sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (the “Index Provider”) which is not affiliated with the Fund or the Adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition of the Index and relative weightings of the securities in the Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Index. |
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Risk [Heading] | rr_RiskHeading | PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND | ||||||
Risk Narrative [Text Block] | rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock | 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. HIGH YIELD SECURITIES RISK: Securities rated below investment grade, commonly referred to as “junk bonds,” include bonds that are rated Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below by Moody’s, Fitch, or S&P, respectively, or unrated securities considered to be of equivalent quality by the Adviser, and may involve greater risks than securities in higher rating categories. Such bonds are regarded as speculative in nature, involve greater risk of default by the issuing entity and may be subject to greater market fluctuations than higher-rated fixed income securities. They are usually issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by those companies with questionable credit strength. The retail secondary market for these “junk bonds” may be less liquid than that of higher-rated securities and adverse conditions could make it difficult at times to sell certain securities or could result in lower prices than those used in calculating the Fund’s net asset value. When the Fund invests in junk bonds, it may also be subject to greater credit risk because it may invest in debt securities issued in connection with corporate restructuring by highly leveraged issuers or in debt securities not current in the payment of interest or principal or in default. FOREIGN SECURITIES RISK: Returns on investments in foreign securities could be more volatile than, or trail the returns on, investments in U.S. securities. Investments in securities issued by entities based outside the U.S. pose distinct risks since political and economic events unique to a country or region will affect those markets and their issuers. Further, such entities and/or their securities may also be affected by currency controls; different accounting, auditing, financial reporting, and legal standards and practices; expropriation; changes in tax policy; greater market volatility; differing securities market structures; higher transaction costs; and various administrative difficulties. These risks may be heightened in connection with investments in developing or emerging countries. 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. |
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Risk Lose Money [Text] | rr_RiskLoseMoney | As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund, and you could lose money on an investment in the Fund. | ||||||
Risk Nondiversified Status [Text] | rr_RiskNondiversifiedStatus | 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. | ||||||
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] | rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading | FUND PERFORMANCE | ||||||
Performance Narrative [Text Block] | rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock | The Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment operations and therefore does not have any performance history. Once the Fund has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the variability of the Fund’s returns based on net assets and comparing the Fund’s performance to the Index. | ||||||
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] | rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns | Once the Fund has completed a full calendar year of operations, a bar chart and table will be included that will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the variability of the Fund’s returns based on net assets and comparing the Fund’s performance to the Index. | ||||||
Performance One Year or Less [Text] | rr_PerformanceOneYearOrLess | The Fund has not yet completed a full calendar year of investment operations and therefore does not have any performance history. | ||||||
SPDR BofA Merrill Lynch Crossover Corporate Bond ETF | SPDR BofA Merrill Lynch Crossover Corporate Bond ETF
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Risk/Return: | rr_RiskReturnAbstract | |||||||
MANAGEMENT FEES | rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets | 0.40% | ||||||
DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE (12b-1) FEES | rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets | none | [1] | |||||
OTHER EXPENSES | rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets | none | [2] | |||||
TOTAL ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES | rr_ExpensesOverAssets | 0.40% | ||||||
LESS CONTRACTUAL FEE WAIVER | rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets | (0.10%) | [3] | |||||
NET ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES | rr_NetExpensesOverAssets | 0.30% | [3] | |||||
YEAR 1 | rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 | 31 | ||||||
YEAR 3 | rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 | 97 | ||||||
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