SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund (WXOZ) Report & Performance

SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund is an ETFs – Exchange Traded Funds investment product that is benchmarked against ETF and sits inside the (ETF) Global Equities - Broad Large Cap Index. Think of a benchmark as a standard where investment performance can be measured. Typically, market indices like the ASX200 and market-segment stock indexes are used for this purpose. The SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund has Assets Under Management of $ 266.68M with a management fee of 0.3%, a performance fee of 0 and a buy/sell spread fee of 0.15%.

The recent investment performance of the investment product shows that the SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund has returned 0.29% in the last month. The previous three years have returned 9.53% annualised and 12.09% each year since inception, which is when the SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund first started.

There are many ways that the risk of an investment product can be measured, and each measurement provides a different insight into the risk present. They can be used on their own or together to perform a risk assessment before investing, but when comparing investments, it is common to compare like for like risk measurements to determine which investment holds the most risk. Since SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund first started, the Sharpe ratio is NA with an annualised volatility of 12.09%. The maximum drawdown of the investment product in the last 12 months is -3.12% and -18.91% since inception. The maximum drawdown is defined as the high-to-low decline of an investment during a particular time period.

Relative performance is what an asset achieves over a period of time compared to similar investments or its peers. Relative return is a measure of the asset's performance compared to the return to the other investment. The SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund has a 12-month excess return when compared to the (ETF) Global Equities - Broad Large Cap Index of -1.3% and -0.89% since inception.

Alpha is an investing term used to measure an investment's outperformance relative to a market benchmark or peer investment. Alpha describes the excess return generated when compared to peer investment. SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund has produced Alpha over the (ETF) Global Equities - Broad Large Cap Index of NA% in the last 12 months and NA% since inception.

For a full list of investment products in the (ETF) Global Equities - Broad Large Cap Index category, you can click here for the Peer Investment Report.

SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund has a correlation coefficient of 0.99 and a beta of 0.97 when compared to the (ETF) Global Equities - Broad Large Cap Index. Correlation measures how similarly two investments move in relation to one another. This establishes a 'correlation coefficient', which has a value between -1.0 and +1.0. A 100% correlation between two investments means that the correlation coefficient is +1. Beta in investments measures how much the price moves relative to the broader market over a period of time. If the investment moves more than the broader market, it has a beta above 1.0. If it moves less than the broader market, then the beta is less than 1.0. Investments with a high beta tend to carry more risk but have the potential to deliver higher returns.

For a full quantitative report on SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund and its peer investments, you can click here for the Peer Investment Report.

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If you or your self managed super fund would like to invest in the SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund please contact State Street Global Advisors, Australia Services Ltd 420 George Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia via phone 61-2-9240-7600 or via email statestreetetfsau@ssga.com.

If you would like to get in contact with the SPDR S&P World Ex Australia Fund manager, please call 61-2-9240-7600.

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