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).
The most widely recognized types of disasters are those listed here. Disasters related to extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts) occur regularly. Events related to extremes of the the earths geology (earthquakes, volc anic eruptions) occur less frequently, but result in major consequences when they happen.