A sound investment process and strong management team underpin SPDR® Bloomberg EM USD Bd ETF's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the least expensive fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's sensible investment philosophy earns it a High Process Pillar rating. The strategy’s management team earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

Analyst Rating

SPDR® Bloomberg EM USD Bd ETF earns a High Process Pillar rating. Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. The most significant contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, such as Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 58% also bolsters the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. Their noteworthy success ratio suggests that the firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that. The parent firm's strong risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars, contributes to the process as well.

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is: 

The investment seeks to provide investment results that, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Bloomberg Emerging USD Bond Core Index that tracks fixed-rate U.S. dollar-denominated debt issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign emerging market issuers.  Normally, the fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, and of its total assets in the securities comprising the index and in securities that the Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the index. It is non-diversified.  

 This strategy's 12-month yield is 5.2%, lower than its average peers' 5.9%. A lower yield tends to indicate lower credit risk.

High

Process

State Street’s team is strong compared with others in the industry, resulting in an Above Average People Pillar rating. There are four managers listed on the fund: James Kramer, Joanna Madden, Jennifer Chirrey, Kheng Ng. The team is well equipped, with an average of 13 years of portfolio management experience. Though they do not manage other products together, managers may manage them individually. The team has faced turnover as of late, with Vernon Loh leaving within the last four months. Even though it is a passive fund, high turnover can still hinder the effectiveness of the investment process. 

 Note: This People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. Morningstar analysts evaluate the People Pillar for passive products at the brand level and may also differentiate by asset class. There is at least one other passive strategy at the firm that is covered by a Morningstar analyst, so the People Pillar rating of the fund is inherited from the rating that the Morningstar analyst assigned to investment vehicles under the same brand name.

Above Average

People

State Street Global Advisors is under new leadership but continues to move along the positive trajectory established by former leaders. SSGA maintains its Above Average Parent Pillar rating.
Cyrus Taraporevala, who oversaw much of SSGA’s recent transformation, retired from the CEO position in December 2022 and passed the baton to his successor, Yie-Hsin Hung. She inherited a business that’s become more disciplined with its fund lineup. Fees have come down, while product development remains focused on fixed-income and sustainability funds, and many of SSGA’s launches have echoed that intention.
The seeds that SSGA planted over the past several years have been bearing fruit. It built out a low-cost series of portfolio building-block ETFs in the U.S. bearing the “SPDR Portfolio” branding. SSGA launched these later than its industry rivals, so they aren’t as large. But they’re competitive, with solid management and low fees, which helped them consistently take in new money over the past several years.
SSGA continued to overhaul its ETF business in Europe with most of its recent fixed-income and sustainability fund launches. Many of these funds track indexes and charge relatively low fees. With operations in the U.S. and Europe standing on a firm foundation, SSGA will put more focus on its Asia-Pacific business—the smallest regional segment of its business.

Parent

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