Kathleen Morgan,
CFA, is a Vice President of SSGA and the Adviser and a Senior Portfolio Manager
in the Global Equity Beta
Solutions Group. In this capacity, Ms. Morgan is responsible for the management
of various equity index funds that are
benchmarked to both domestic and international strategies. Prior to joining SSGA
in 2017, she worked in Equity Product
Management at Wellington Management, conducting independent risk oversight and
developing investment product
marketing strategy. Prior experience also includes index equity portfolio
management at BlackRock. Ms.
Morgan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Wellesley College and a
Master of Business
Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She
has also earned the Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA) designation.
Amy Scofield is a
Principal of SSGA and the Adviser and a Portfolio Manager in the Global Equity
Beta Solutions Group. She is
responsible for the management of various equity index funds, with domestic and
international strategies. Ms.
Scofield rejoined SSGA in November of 2010, after spending two years at Atlantic
Trust Company, a private wealth
management firm. In her role at Atlantic Trust Company, she specialized in asset
allocation and performance analysis
for high net worth clients. Prior to Atlantic Trust Company, Ms. Scofield was a
compliance officer at SSGA, where she
was responsible for ensuring equity portfolios met specified guidelines. She
also worked as an operations associate
in SSGA's International Structured Products Group. Ms. Scofield holds a Bachelor
of Arts in Economics from
Boston College.
Additional
information about the portfolio managers' compensation, other accounts managed
by the portfolio managers, and the
portfolio managers' ownership of the Fund is available in the SAI.
Administrator,
Sub-Administrator, Custodian and Transfer Agent. The Adviser serves
as Administrator for the Fund. State Street, part
of State Street Corporation, is the Sub-Administrator for the Fund and the
Custodian for the Fund's assets, and serves
as Transfer Agent to the Fund.
Lending
Agent.
State Street is the securities lending agent for the Trust. For its services,
the lending agent would typically receive a
portion of the net investment income, if any, earned on the collateral for the
securities loaned.
Distributor. State Street Global
Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (“SSGA FD” or the “Distributor”), serves as the
Fund's distributor pursuant
to the Distribution Agreement between SSGA FD and the Trust. The Distributor
will not distribute Fund Shares in less
than Creation Units, and it does not maintain a secondary market in Fund Shares.
The Distributor may enter into
selected dealer agreements with other broker-dealers or other qualified
financial institutions for the sale of Creation Units of
Fund Shares.
Additional
Information. The Board oversees
generally the operations of the Fund and the Trust. The Trust enters into
contractual
arrangements with various parties, including among others the Fund's investment
adviser, custodian, transfer agent, and
accountants, who provide services to the Fund. Shareholders are not parties to
any such contractual
arrangements or intended beneficiaries of those contractual arrangements, and
those contractual arrangements are not
intended to create in any shareholder any right to enforce them directly against
the service providers or to seek
any remedy under them directly against the service providers.
This Prospectus
provides information concerning the Trust and the Fund that you should consider
in determining whether to purchase
Fund Shares. Neither this Prospectus nor the related SAI is intended, or should
be read, to be or give rise to an
agreement or contract between the Trust or the Fund and any investor, or to give
rise to any rights in any shareholder or other
person other than any rights under federal or state law that may not be
waived.
Index/Trademark
Licenses/Disclaimers
The Index Provider
is not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser, the Fund's Administrator,
Sub-Administrator, Custodian, Transfer Agent, SSGA
FD or any of their respective affiliates. The Adviser (“Licensee”) has entered into
license agreements with the
Index Provider pursuant to which the Adviser pays a fee to use the index. The
Adviser is sub-licensing rights to the Index
to the Fund at no charge.
THE SPDR MSCI USA
GENDER DIVERSITY ETF IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, SOLD OR PROMOTED BY
MSCI
INC. (“MSCI”), ANY OF ITS
AFFILIATES, ANY OF ITS INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY INVOLVED IN,
OR RELATED TO, COMPILING, COMPUTING OR CREATING ANY MSCI INDEX (COLLECTIVELY, THE
“MSCI
PARTIES”).THE MSCI INDICES
ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX
NAMES ARE SERVICE MARK(S) OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES AND HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR USE FOR
CERTAIN PURPOSES BY THE LICENSEE. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES MAKES ANY