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Since its beginning in 1975, Vanguard has grown to become one of the world's largest investment management companies, with almost $1.99 trillion in U.S. fund assets as of Dec. 31, 2012. Vanguard provides an array of investment products, including a full range of low-cost ETFs and mutual funds designed to help financial advisors grow and preserve the wealth of their clients. In addition to our many investments and client-focused services, our commitment to financial advisors includes innovative practice management solutions that can help advisors attract and retain clients, build their practices and enhance their professional development. Most investment firms are either publicly traded or privately owned. Vanguard is different: We're owned by the Vanguard funds, which are owned by our clients. We make every decision with only our clients' needs in mind. Our unique structure, along with our commitment to provide outstanding performance, provides financial advisors with many opportunities for building their businesses and enhancing their client relationships. Connect with Vanguard® at advisors.vanguard.com or 800-997-2798.

S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research. Home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average℠, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC has over 115 years of experience constructing innovative and transparent solutions that fulfill the needs of institutional and retail investors. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other provider in the world. To learn more about our company, please visit www.spdji.com.

First Trust Portfolios L.P. is a privately held investment services company that was established in 1991. First Trust's history can be traced back to 1974, when the first insured municipal bond unit investment trusts, called the First Trust® of Insured Municipal Bonds, were introduced. First Trust invests across a range of asset classes, offering them through many investment vehicles, including unit investment trusts, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, variable annuities and separate managed accounts. Many of these portfolios are selected using their proprietary fundamental and quantitative research as well as research from recognized leaders within the industry. Known for their heritage of product sponsorship and asset management expertise, First Trust is committed to helping financial professionals to better serve investors with superior products, services and results. As of November 30, 2012, First Trust had assets under management or supervision of over $62 billion.

Guggenheim Investments offers investors a broad range of ETFs—domestic and international equity, fixed-income and currency—to provide the core building blocks for portfolios, access to hard-to-reach market segments, as well as targeted investment choices. As the eighth-largest U.S. ETF provider, with approximately $12 billion in assets,* Guggenheim Investments seeks to be a go-to source for strong, actionable ideas to the marketplace. With a history of purposeful innovation, including many industry "firsts," Guggenheim Investments delivers what we believe are distinct and relevant strategies for institutional investors, private wealth advisors and the clients they serve. For more information, visit guggenheiminvestments.com.

Investing in today's world is an active, dynamic process. iShares gives investors access to the same ETFs that nine out of 10 large professional investors who use ETFs choose. iShares offers professional-quality products that can help investors navigate today's volatile markets, individual choice to help execute investment ideas with insights and support, and responsible innovation to make investing clear, fair and efficient. What's more, iShares is backed by the experience and expertise of BlackRock, an advisor to many of the world's largest companies and governments on managing risks and understanding capital markets.

iShares Connect is an unparalleled program that connects ETF investment strategists with advisors and other resources needed to grow their businesses. Beyond traditional practice management, iShares Connect understands that there is not a "one size fits all" approach to growth and success. This custom-tailored program delivers direct access—to the leadership, insights and resources available jointly through iShares® and BlackRock®—to help clients set goals, focus their efforts and drive business results.

As a premier full-service provider, NASDAQ OMX® is dedicated to designing powerful, relevant index and benchmark families that are in sync with the continually changing market environment. Utilizing the expanded coverage of our global footprint, NASDAQ OMX has more than 2,500 diverse indexes that provide coverage across asset classes, countries and sectors. We are helping to expand the trading and investment landscape with new opportunities in ETFs, ETNs, futures, options, structured products and other investment and derivative securities.
NASDAQ OMX indexes, including US All Market, Sharia and Green families, are benchmarks that can help influence and track your investment strategies.

Offering the nation's largest lineup of alternative ETFs, ProShares enables investors to go beyond the limitations of conventional investing and meet today's market challenges. Each ProShares ETF provides access to an alternative investment strategy delivered with the liquidity, transparency and cost effectiveness of an ETF. ProShares' lineup of over 140 ETFs includes Global Fixed Income, Hedge Strategies, Geared (leveraged and inverse), and Inflation and Volatility ETFs.
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* ProShares has the largest lineup of alternative ETFs in the United States according to Financial Research Corporation ("FRC"), based on analysis of all the known alternative ETF providers (as defined by FRC) by their number of funds and assets (as of 3/31/2012).

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.
We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays. We're one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.
Barclays offers premier investment banking products and services to its clients through Barclays Bank PLC. For more information, please visit barclays.com.

Charles Schwab Founded in 1989, Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation, is one of the nation's largest asset management companies. For over 19 years, CSIM has been an industry leader in delivering cost-efficient index investments. Today, CSIM is the one of the largest provider of retail index funds. In 2009, CSIM launched the Schwab ETFs^TM, a family of index ETFs that are available to trade online for free for Schwab clients, and clients of advisors who custody through Schwab Advisor Services.

ConvergEx Group is a leading technology company providing mission-critical proprietary software products and technology-enabled services to asset managers and financial intermediaries globally. Its products and services span the investment life cycle and are designed to enable customers to achieve improved results through operational and work flow efficiencies, execution and analytical tools, and highly personalized service. The firm serves more than 4,000 customers accessing over 100 global markets. Formed in 2006, the firm has more than 1,250 employees located in 23 cities throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC is Leading the Intelligent ETF Revolution® through its family of more than 140 domestic and international exchange-traded funds, which seek to outperform traditional benchmark indexes while providing advisors and investors access to an innovative array of focused investment opportunities. With franchise assets over $57 billion as of June 30, 2011, PowerShares ETFs trade on both U.S. stock exchanges. For more information, please visit us at invescopowershares.com or follow us on Twitter @PowerShares.

Knight is a global financial services firm that provides trade execution, research, asset management and capital market services across multiple asset classes.
Through globally integrated desks, Knight is able to offer deep pools of liquidity in addition to well-versed and professionally staffed desks. The ETF team's experience dates back to the inception of ETF trading, over 17 years ago. Knight has consistently ranked No. 1 in ETF shares executed in the U.S. Knight offers agency and principal facilitation across all ETFs sponsors, in all ETFs, in the Americas & Europe.
For additional information about Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG), please visit www.knight.com.

MSCI is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to around 6,200 clients worldwide, ranging from large pension plans to boutique hedge funds. Located in 20 countries around the world, and with over 2,400 employees, MSCI is dedicated to supporting the increasingly complex needs of the investment community with groundbreaking new products, high-quality data, superior distribution and dedicated client support.

State Street Global Advisors is an acknowledged leader in the arena of institutional investing with $1.9 trillion in assets under management.¹ An innovator in the exchange traded fund market and creator of the first ETF in 1993, we currently manage 114 domestic and 52 international exchange traded funds with approximately $307 billion worldwide in our SPDR® ETF family.²
Products offered through State Street Global Markets, LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. For further information, including prospectuses, visit spdrs.com or www.spdrgoldshares.com.
¹As of June 30, 2012
²As of June 30, 2012. This AUM includes the assets of the SPDR Gold Trust (approx. $66 billion as of June 30, 2012), for which State Street Global Markets, LLC, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors serves as the marketing agent.

United States Commodity Funds (USCF) is a leading provider of exchange-traded commodity products (ETPs), with assets totaling $3.1 billion as of June 31, 2012. Each ETP is designed to track the price movements of individual commodity futures including WTI Crude Oil, Brent Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Heating Oil and Gasoline. USCF also manages United States Commodity Index Fund (USCI), which tracks a diversified basket of commodities. UCSF's newest funds include United States Copper Index Fund (CPER) that tracks a portfolio of copper futures contracts, United States Agriculture Index Fund (USAG) that tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures contracts, and United States Metals Index Fund (USMI) that tracks a diverse basket of metals futures contracts. USCF strives to provide investors economical, transparent and highly liquid exposure to commodities markets.

WisdomTree® launched its first ETFs in June of 2006, and is currently the industry's seventh largest ETF provider. WisdomTree sponsors 48 distinct ETFs that span asset classes and countries around the world. Categories include: U.S. and International Equity, Currency, Fixed Income and Alternatives. WisdomTree pioneered the concept of fundamentally weighted ETFs and active ETFs and is currently an industry leader in both categories. WisdomTree is the only publicly traded asset manager exclusively focused on the ETF industry.
On July 26, 2011, WisdomTree listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker: WETF.

Shortly after the first Exchange Traded Fund ("ETF") was introduced on the American Stock Exchange in 1993, ALPS ventured to be one of the first to actively market ETFs and ETF strategies to the financial advisor community. Since that time we have continued to be a leader in bringing innovative portfolio solutions to the advisory and institutional marketplace. ALPS specializes in satellite and alternative investment strategies, focusing on Commodities, MLPs, Private Equity, Emerging Markets, and Global Asset Allocation. Our exposure to this space is achieved primarily through ETFs and open-end funds so that we can deliver access to alternatives that is registered, liquid and fully transparent.
www.alpsfunds.com

Credit Suisse, one of the world's leading financial services providers, offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial private client franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With presence in 73 countries, Deutsche Bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates. Deutsche Bank's db-X Group is among the world's leading providers of exchange-traded products, with more than 200 products totaling over $65 billion in assets under management in the United States, Europe and Asia. www.dbxetf.com or www.db.com.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong private client franchise. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients, creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. Equities is a market-leading provider of equity and equity-linked products to institutional, corporate and retail clients worldwide. The award-winning franchise delivers unparalleled access to a global network of execution services, financing and structuring expertise.

Foreside provides a suite of distribution and regulatory compliance services to clients in the investment management industry. Our solutions allow clients to focus on asset management without sacrificing distribution and compliance best practices. Our experienced professionals can advise you regarding the legal, regulatory, financial, operational, and distribution requirements of your Exchange-Traded Products. We closely follow the U.S. and international ETP market and varying strategies, including index and active management, for equity, bond and commodity fund types.

FTSE Group is a leader in the provision of global index and analytical solutions, and calculates indices across a wide range of asset classes, on both a standard and custom basis. FTSE indices are used extensively by investors worldwide for investment analysis, performance measurement, asset allocation and the creation of a wide range of ETFs, funds and structured products.

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS), a division of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., offers a market-leading, comprehensive suite of services to help clients launch and service ETFs. Our integrated offering includes global custody, fund accounting, fund administration and basket settlement services. We leverage global, firm-wide resources to provide increased capabilities needed to launch complex new and innovative fund structures while engaging our clients in a consultative process. For more information visit www.jpmorgan.com/wss.

Market Vectors exchange-traded products have been offered since 2006 and span many asset classes, including equities, fixed income (municipal and international bonds) and currency markets. The Market Vectors family is currently the fifth largest ETF family in the U.S. and the eighth largest worldwide.
Market Vectors ETFs are distributed by Van Eck Global. Founded in 1955, Van Eck Global was among the first U.S. money managers helping investors achieve greater diversification through global investing. Headquartered in New York City, Van Eck has a network of offices worldwide, including offices in Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Shanghai, China.

PIMCO is an institutional asset manager and industry thought leader providing global investment solutions across a wide range of asset classes. Founded in 1971, the firm now with over 2,000 dedicated professionals, and manages $1.8 trillion in assets including $1.47 trillion in third-party client assets as of June 30, 2012. PIMCO's wide range of clients includes over 70% of the Fortune 100 as of May 2012.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. With $23.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, and $2.1 trillion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2012, State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets.
For more information, visit State Street's website at www.statestreet.com.
This AUM includes the assets of the SPDR Gold Trust (approx. $75.3 billion as of Sept. 30, 2012), for which State Street Global Markets LLC, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors, serves as the marketing agent.

STOXX Ltd. is an established and leading index specialist of European origins. The launch of the first STOXX indices in 1998, including the EURO STOXX 50 index, marked the beginning of a unique success story, based on the company's neutrality and independence. STOXX has been at the forefront of market developments, continuously expanding its portfolio of innovative indices—and is now operating on a global level, across all asset classes.

BBH is a leading global ETF asset servicing provider with more than $140 billion in ETF assets under custody. BBH works with a diverse cadre of asset managers to launch physical and synthetic Exchange-traded Products (ETPs). BBH's expertise in global custody, transfer agency, administration and accounting services is the foundation of its ETF-specific services.

Columbia Management serves as investment manager to the ETFs, as well as other open-end and closed-end funds, in the Columbia Family of Funds. Columbia is a registered investment advisor with management experience that covers all major asset classes, including equity securities, fixed-income securities and money market instruments.

FlexShares ETFs offer new, investor-centric solutions that build on the global investment experience of one of the world's leading asset managers, Northern Trust. Engineered to advance real-world goals that clients voice, FlexShares blend multiple disciplines into focused options that advisors can use to construct, allocate and manage client portfolios. An investment is subject to risk, including the loss of principal. Foreside Fund Services, LLC, distributor. Visit www.flexshares.com for a prospectus.

Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research. The company offers an extensive line of products and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutions. Morningstar provides data on approximately 385,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, and similar vehicles. Morningstar's analysts cover 800+ ETFs worldwide, representing about 90% of the ETF universe.

NYSE Arca is NYSE Euronext's premier listing venue for exchange-traded products. Our unique market structure, state-of-the-art electronic trading platform, consulting expertise and innovations have led the industry globally for 20 years, with over 1,400 ETPs listed. NYSE Euronext also leads with proprietary indices providing key segment benchmarks.

Research Affiliates LLC, is a leader in innovative investing and asset allocation. Our competitive edge is our research and product development capability, led by Robert Arnott and Jason Hsu. Research Affiliates distributes investment products through its global partners and operates worldwide from its base in Newport Beach, California.

Russell Indexes offers a comprehensive family of equity indexes that give investors a more precise view of the markets and allow them to track performance of distinct segments consistently. Russell Indexes calculates more than 80,000 benchmarks daily, covering 98% of the investable market globally, 85 countries and more than 10,000 securities. Approximately $3.9 trillion in assets is benchmarked to the Russell Indexes.

S&P Capital IQ, a business line of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class and real-time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities around the world.

With nearly 11,000 professionals in over 33 countries, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking tailors solutions for issuers and investors by capitalizing on our worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance and global markets. For issuers, we provide a global advisory approach and capital-raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum. For investors, we offer investment opportunities and risk management solutions through our global markets platform (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives).