To get details on the dividends for the SPY, go to the SPDR website and click on ETF Tax Information â 2008, which brings up a pdf file. The dividends for the SPY are shown on page 2 of the pdf. You'll see that in 2008, SPY paid $2.72 a share in dividends, $2.33 a share of which was qualified. The SPY owns some real-estate investment trusts, which pay some unqualified dividends.
Disasters affect peopleâs health or lives and the infrastructure that supports our society. Disasters can be classified according to their: 1  Speed of onset (sudden or slow). 2  Scale (minor, moderate or major). 3  Cause (natural or man-made).
Verisk Maplecroft based the rankings on numerous types of natural disasters ranging from tropical cyclones to flooding, severe weather, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes. Another part of the NHRA atlas is the Socio-economic Resilience Index, which factors in how a country is able to respond to natural disasters.