Fund Description: SPDR MSCI Japan Quality Mix ETF is an exchange-traded index fund or Index ETF which is a separate investment portfolio of the SPDR Index Shares Fund, an investment management company. INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE: The SPDR MSCI Japan Quality Mix ETF seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the MSCI Japan Quality Mix A-Series Index. INDEX DESCRIPTION: The MSCI Japan Quality Mix A-Series Index is designed to measure the equity market performance of publicly-traded companies domiciled in Japan and aims to represent the performance of a combination of three factors; value, quality and low volatility. The Index is an equal weighted combination of the following three MSCI Factor Indices in a single composite index: the MSCI Japan Value Weighted Index, the MSCI Japan Quality Index, and the MSCI Japan Minimum Volatility Index (each, a Component Index). The MSCI Japan Value Weighted Index includes publicly-traded companies domiciled in Japan, weighted to emphasize stocks with lower valuations, by giving higher index weight to stocks with higher values of fundamental variables such as sales, earnings, cash earnings and book value. The MSCI Japan Quality Index includes publicly-traded companies domiciled in Japan, weighted to emphasize stocks with historically high return on equity, stable year-over-year earnings growth, and low financial leverage. The MSCI Japan Minimum Volatility Index aims to reflect the performance characteristics of a minimum variance strategy applied to publicly-traded companies domiciled in Japan and is weighted to provide the lowest absolute risk within a given set of constraints. The MSCI Japan Risk Weighted Index includes publicly-traded companies domiciled in Japan, and reweights the constituents so that stocks with lower volatility, measured as variance of three year historical returns, are given higher index weight. Each Component Index is attributed equal weight (1/3) at each rebalancing. All constituents of each Component Index are included in the Index. The MSCI A-Series Index Methodology seeks to ensure the Index includes at least 25 constituents. The Index is rebalanced semi-annually, usually as of the close of the last business day of May and November, coinciding with the semi-annual index reviews of each Component Index. FUND STRATEGY: In seeking to track the performance of the Index, the Fund employs a sampling strategy, which means that the Fund is not required to purchase all of the securities represented in the Index. Instead, the Fund may purchase a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index or in American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) based on securities comprising the Index. The Fund may invest in equity securities that are not included in the Index (including common stock, preferred stock, depositary receipts and shares of other investment companies), cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds. FUND MANAGEMENT: SSgA FM serves as the investment adviser to the Fund.