State Street SPDR Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF

Frequently Asked Questions About CERY

What does CERY invest in?

The State Street SPDR Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (CERY) aims to replicate the overall investment performance of the Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Total Return Index, prior to accounting for its own fees and expenses. This underlying Index is constructed to provide a systematic, long-only exposure to the broad commodities market. It accomplishes this by investing in synthetic futures contract positions, guided by specific rules that ensure diversification. The Index strategically favors commodities that exhibit a downward-sloping futures curve and possess high trading liquidity. CERY offers investors a potential avenue to mitigate the expenses typically involved in rolling over commodity futures contracts. Furthermore, it allows for the incorporation of commodities' valuable diversification and inflation-hedging attributes into core investment portfolios.

What is the expense ratio of CERY?

State Street SPDR Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (CERY) charges an expense ratio of 0.28%. This is the annual fee deducted from fund assets to cover management and operations.

What is CERY's distribution yield?

CERY's trailing-twelve-month yield is 3.57%, calculated from the sum of distributions over the past year divided by the current price.

How does CERY's covered-call strategy work?

CERY sells call options against the stocks (or index) it holds, collecting premium income that gets passed through to shareholders as distributions. The strategy generates above-market income in flat or rising markets but caps upside. When the underlying rallies past the strike, the gains above the strike go to the option buyer, not the fund.

How big is CERY?

State Street SPDR Bloomberg Enhanced Roll Yield Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (CERY) manages $1.28B in total assets. AUM determines bid-ask liquidity and the fund's vulnerability to closure. Funds below ~$50M are at higher risk of liquidation.

Is CERY actively managed or an index fund?

CERY's management style is described in the fund's prospectus. See the description on the Summary tab for the published strategy.