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PowerShares to List Four Financial Sector ETFs Based on KBW Indexes on NYSE Arca December 2, 2010

November 30, 2010--Media Advisory
What:PowerShares four new financial sector ETF portfolios
Who:Executive interviews
Benjamin Fulton, Managing Director of Global ETFs, Invesco PowerShares
John Howard, Co-head of research at KBW

Where:Telephone Interviews

When:December 1-3, 2010

Topics:
1. PowerShares KBW Financial Sector ETFs
PowerShares KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT Portfolio (KBWY)
PowerShares KBW High Dividend Yield Financial Portfolio (KBWD)
PowerShares KBW International Financial Portfolio (KBWX)
PowerShares KBW Property & Casualty Insurance Portfolio (KBWP)

2. What’s next for ETFs in 2011?

For media interviews please contact Bill Conboy or Dustin Weeden at 303-415-2290, bill@bccapitalpartners.com or dustin@bccapitalpartners.com. For additional information please visit, www.invescopowershares.com/kbw.

Source: Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC,


First Trust files with the SEC

November 29, 2010--First Trust has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for First Trust AlphaDEX ETFs.

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Source: SEC.gov


Morgan Stanley Exchange-Traded Funds International Equity: EM Allocation Update

November 29, 2010--Introduction
Morgan Stanley & Co.’s Global Emerging Market (EM) Strategy team, led by Jonathan Garner, maintains an EMbased country allocation model. The model seeks to outperform the MSCI EM Index over a six- to 12-month time horizon. This model might be attractive to investors seeking exposure to EM equities tilted toward favorite countries. Investors who are more aggressive may utilize the model’s overweight and underweight recommendations to go long or short a particular country.

For more details on the methodology Garner uses to construct his model, please see his May 18, 2007 and June 25, 2009 notes.

Varieties of investment vehicles are available to implement the EM country allocation model. However, we believe ETFs offer significant advantages due to their trading flexibility, diversification, relatively low cost, tax efficiency and transparency.

Garner maintains a cautious tactical view for EM equities. Strong EM outperformance, relative to developed markets, combined with technical signals and fund flows starting to indicate an overbought market lead to Garner’s more cautious near-term outlook for EM. Consistent with his view and recent changes to the inflation outlook, which carry risks to equity performance, by Morgan Stanley & Co.’s Asia economics team, Garner updated several relative model weights, which effectively reduced the model’s aggregate risk position from 725 bps to 385 bps. We note that Garner’s recent changes result in a 10% increase to the core MSCI EM ETF component of our optimized ETF model.

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Source: ETF Research-Morgan Stanley


Morgan Stanley Exchange-Traded Funds: US ETF Weekly Update

November 29, 2010--Highlights
Weekly Flows: $4.1 Billion Net Inflows
ETFsTraded $214 Billion Last Week
No ETF Launches
Eaton Vance Purchases ETF Developer
US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Flows by Market Segment
ETFs bounced back last week, posting net inflows of $4.1 billion
US Small-& Micro-Cap ETFs took in the most new money, generating net inflows of $2.5 blnlast week
ETF assets stand at $941 bln; up 21% YTD

13-week flows were mostly positive among asset classes

$50.3 bln net inflows into ETFs over past 13 weeks (57% into EM& US Large-Cap Equity)

We estimate ETFs have posted net inflows 34 out of 47 weeks YTD

US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Largest Flows by Individual ETF
Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) posted net inflows of $1.3 blnlast week, the most of any ETF

Mid-and Small-Cap ETFs occupied 6 of the top 10 spots for largest net inflows last week

For the second straight week, SPY posted outflows; but over 13-wk period has taken in most new money

US-Listed ETFs: ETF Dollar Volume

Market share of monthly ETF volume as % of listed volume has doubled over 5 yrs

Amid shortened trading week, ETFsposted lightest trading week since September

US Large-Cap ETFsaccount for majority of weekly trading volume (43% market share)

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Source: ETF Research-Morgan Stanley


Citi Wins Mandate to Provide Securities Lending Services for Global X Funds Exchange Traded Funds

November 29, 2010--)--Citi today announced that it has won a mandate to provide third-party securities lending services for Global X Funds’ family of exchange traded funds.

Citi provided the right combination of leading expertise, risk management capabilities and flexibility to tailor its securities lending program to the specific characteristics and requirements of Global X Funds,” says Bruno Del Ama, CEO, Global X Funds. “The global reach of Citi’s transaction services business is a great complement to our global asset management business.”

Added Neeraj Sahai, Global Head, Securities and Fund Services, Citi: “We greatly look forward to strengthening our relationship with Global X Funds by leveraging our capabilities both across Securities and Fund Services and across the entire Citi enterprise.”

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Source: Citi


Claymore Securities Launches ETF Suite Tracking The Wilshire 5000SM, Wilshire 4500 And Wilshire US REIT Indexes

November 29, 2010--Claymore Securities, Inc. today announced the launch of an ETF suite designed to track three of Wilshire Associates’ broad market indexes: the Wilshire 5000 Total Market ETF (NYSE Arca: WFVK), the Wilshire 4500 Completion ETF (NYSE Arca: WXSP), and the Wilshire US REIT ETF (NYSE Arca: WREI). The Wilshire Indexes, developed by Wilshire Associates Incorporated, (“Wilshire ®”), a global independent investment and consulting services firm, have been in existence for more than 35 years and are used extensively by institutional and active money managers as performance benchmarks.

“This is an exciting addition to our growing portfolio of ETF products, extending our line-up into broad-based domestic equities.” commented William Belden, Managing Director, Claymore Securities, Inc. “Leveraging the expertise of Wilshire and their widely followed indexes, investors now have an opportunity to access the U.S. equity and REIT markets with the inherent benefits of ETF investing—efficiency, transparency and flexibility.”

“We are delighted to be working with Claymore to launch these products,” said Dennis A. Tito, founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wilshire Associates who is credited with developing the Wilshire 5000 in 1974 “Utilizing Wilshire’s investment technology and performance measurement heritage, we created the Wilshire 5000 index as a tool for our institutional investment professionals and their clients to measure, understand and explain the market. Each index developed since that time was created to measure a specific section of the securities market in a way that was meaningful for investors,” he noted.

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Source: Claymore Securities


Emerging Markets Week in Review -11/22/2010 - 11/26/2010

November 29, 2010--The Dow Jones Emerging Markets Sector Titans Composite Index slid 2.35% last week on concerns that a bailout of Ireland will fail to cure Europe's debt crisis and North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire.

Technology and Consumer, the two best performing sectors this year, declined the least, falling 0.40% and 1.09% respectively. Financials and Industrials were down the most after declining by 3.99% and 3.90% respectively.

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Source: Emerging Global Advisors


BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Introduces Global Financial Stress Index

November 29, 2010--BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research has introduced the Global Financial Stress Index (GFSI), a comprehensive, cross-market gauge of risk, hedging demand and investment flows. The index is designed to help investors identify market risks earlier and more accurately than commonly used risk indicators, such as the VIX index.

The GFSI composite index aggregates over twenty measures of stress across five asset classes and various geographies, measuring three separate kinds of financial market stress: risk, as indicated by cross-asset measures of volatility, solvency and liquidity; hedging demand, implied by the skew of equity and currency options; and investor appetite for risk, as measured by trading volumes as well as flows in and out of equities, high-yield bonds and money markets.

Back-testing of the GFSI since 2000 illustrates that sharp rises in the index over short periods of time would have had a high degree of accuracy in forecasting sell-offs in assets, particularly global equities, commodities and U.S. high-yield bonds.

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Source: Bank of America Merrill Lynch


CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update

November 29, 2010--The CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports have benn updated for the week of November 23, 2010 are now available.

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Source: CFTC.gov


ProShares files with the SEC

November 29, 2010--ProShares has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
ProShares RAFI® Long/Short Fund.

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Source: SEC.gov


SEC Filings


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Europe ETF News


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June 12, 2025 ifo Institute Raises Growth Forecast for Germany
June 10, 2025 ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter
June 06, 2025 Active ETF fever grips selectors-is the end in sight for mutual funds?

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Asia ETF News


June 25, 2025 QFIIs Gain Access to Onshore ETF Options As A-share Market Opening Deepens
June 18, 2025 Mirae Asset Global Investments Launches MIRAE ASSET TIGER CHINA GLOBAL LEADERS TOP3 PLUS ETF, Tracking Solactive-KEDI China Global Leaders TOP3Plus Index
June 13, 2025 Post-Adjustment ChiNext Index Attracts Global Assets with Low Valuation and High Growth Potential
June 13, 2025 Unlocking Consumption to Sustain Growth in China -World Bank Economic Update
June 13, 2025 US trading firm Virtu weighs foray into China market-making business

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Global ETP News


June 14, 2025 Global Economic Prospects-Global Economy Faces Trade-Related Headwinds
June 12, 2025 Disclosing Public Debt Boosts Investor Confidence, Cuts Borrowing Costs 
June 10, 2025 Global Economy Set for Weakest Run Since 2008 Outside of Recessions
June 03, 2025 Trade Reckoning

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Middle East ETP News


June 19, 2025 GCC: Growth on the Rise, but Smart Spending Will Shape a Thriving Future
June 16, 2025 Saudi Exchange leads market losses across the GCC

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Africa ETF News


June 24, 2025 East Africa's regional 20 share index
June 16, 2025 African Credit Rating Agency to Launch September 2025
May 27, 2025 African Economic Outlook 2025-Africa's short-term outlook resilient despite global economic and political headwinds

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ESG and Of Interest News


June 18, 2025 Global Energy Transition Gains Ground, but Security and Capital Challenges Persist
June 17, 2025 Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
June 10, 2025 Global Carbon Pricing Mobilizes Over $100 Billion for Public Budgets
June 07, 2025 Accelerating Blue Finance: Instruments, Case Studies, and Pathways to Scale
June 03, 2025 The Longevity Dividend

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White Papers


May 30, 2025 IMF Working Paper-Interest Rate Sensitivity Scenarios to Guide Monetary Policy

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