State Street Global Advisors Enhances Single-Country SPDR ETF Suite

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation, today announced that four existing single-country SPDR ETFs that provide exposure to Canada, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom will change indices, names and tickers, and carry lower expense ratios. In addition, the firm will launch the SPDR Solactive Hong Kong ETF (ZHOK), at start of trading on Wednesday, September 19, 2018.

The SPDR Solactive Hong Kong ETF will track the Solactive GBS Hong Kong Large & Mid Cap Index, a market capitalization index designed to measure the equity market performance of large and mid-cap companies in Hong Kong. As of August 30, 2018, the index comprised 58 securities. ZHOK has a net expense ratio of 0.14% and begins trading on the NYSE Arca exchange on Wednesday.