Whois & Analysis for spdrs.com

SPDR funds (pronounced "spider") are a family of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) traded in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and managed by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

Informally, they are also known as Spyders or Spiders.

SPDR is a trademark of Standard and Poor's Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of McGraw Hill Financial.

Investment management is the professional asset management of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and other assets (e.g., real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors.

Investors may be institutions (insurance companies, pension funds, corporations, charities, educational establishments etc) or private investors (both directly via investment contracts and more commonly via collective investment schemes e.g. mutual funds or exchange-traded funds).

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks.

An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day.

Most ETFs track an index, such as a stock index or bond index.

ETFs may be attractive as investments because of their low costs, tax efficiency, and stock-like features.

By 2013, ETFs were the most popular type of exchange-traded product.

In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, finished goods and services.

The utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to a relationship is called the production function.

There are three basic resources or factors of production: land, labor and capital.

The factors are also frequently labeled "producer goods or services" to distinguish them from the goods or services purchased by consumers, which are frequently labeled "consumer goods".

All three of these are required in combination at a time to produce a commodity.