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The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is an exchange-traded fund which trades on the NYSE Arca under the symbol SPY (NYSE Arca: SPY). The ETF is designed to track the S&P 500 index by holding a portfolio comprising all 500 companies on the index. [1] It is a part of the SPDR family of ETFs and is managed by State Street Global Advisors. [2]
On January 5, 2009, the consulting firm of Ennis Knupp + Associates issued a press release that introduced a new six-page study on the performance of five benchmark indexes for the period from July 1986 through October 2008 - the PUT Index, the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index, the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index and 3-Month Treasury Bills.
The name is an acronym for the first member of the family, the Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts, now the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF, which is designed to track the S&P 500 stock market index. The SPDR S&P 500 Trust is the largest ETF in the world by total assets under management.
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF trust, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as SPY, is a popular exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the S&P 500 index. SPY is the first ETF listed in ...
A call option on a stock index gives you the right to buy the index, and a put option on a stock index gives you the right to sell the index. Options on stock indexes are similar to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the difference being that ETF values change throughout the day whereas the value on stock index options change at the end of each ...
In 1969, the vice chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, Edmund “Eddie” O’Connor, developed the idea for an options exchange. [4] At that time, options on stocks were traded in a New York-based, [5] over-the-counter market which required a direct link between the buyer and seller and complex terms of sale. [6] The options exchange that O ...
Here’s how options work, the benefits and risks of options and how to start trading options.
Investors have used exchange-listed options to engage in buy-write strategies since the 1970s, but prior to 2002 there was no major benchmark for buy-write strategies. To develop the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (ticker BXM), the Chicago Board Options Exchange commissioned Professor Robert Whaley of Vanderbilt University.