2013 Sponsors

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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.

Bloomberg is the leading global provider of data, news and analytics. Bloomberg provides real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals, and individuals around the world.

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.

Since its beginning in 1975, Vanguard has grown to become one of the world's largest investment management companies. We manage more than $2 trillion in assets under management* in approximately 170 U.S.-based mutual funds and offer additional funds in foreign markets. We are known as a company that delivers exceptional value at a very reasonable cost, offering: a client-owned structure that puts our shareholders' interests first; a prudent approach to long-term investing; exceptional investments across all asset classes; broad expertise in plan design, compliance and fiduciary matters; high-quality administrative services; and award-winning participant education and advice. institutional.vanguard.com. *As of September 30, 2012

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 $70 billion as of December 31, 2012, PowerShares ETFs trade on both U.S. stock exchanges. For more information, please visit us at invescopowershares.com or follow us on Twitter @PowerShares

BlueStar Global Investors LLC ("BlueStar") is a financial services firm that develops unique Israel-focused and Mideast/Mediterranean-related investment strategies and products. BlueStar's mission is to provide North American institutional and retail investors with efficient and diversified access to the Israeli and regional capital markets through intelligently designed and cost-effective investment vehicles for major asset classes. Our flagship product is the BlueStar Israel Global Index™ ("BIGI"), a broader, more-complete benchmark for Israeli equities traded worldwide. (www.BlueStarIndexes.com)

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.

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.

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.

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 700,000 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.

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).

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.