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An Overview of Niche Products


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Michael Underhill

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Table of Contents

The opportunity

– What is infrastructure?

– Why is it attractive?

Value Proposition of an Actively Managed Listed Infrastructure ETF

– A portfolio of listed securities



* S & P Listed Infrastructure Assets - A Primer, March 2009

Infrastructure assets represent a broad mix of businesses that provide essential services to society.

What is infrastructure



Unique investment characteristics:

Stable cash flows, potential for inflation hedging

– Inelastic Demand, given scarcity of resource

– Long useful life of asset

Hybrid nature of both fixed income and capital gains

– Best opportunity for capital gains from investments involving

development risk, or some monopoly businesses

Variety of risk and return profiles

– Range from low-risk regulated assets to moderate-risk energy

projects

– Inflation linked assets

– Less vulnerable to economic cycles

Infrastructure: A Differentiated Asset Class



Demand for Infrastructure continues to dwarf the ready supply of capital for projects:

Population Growth

Urbanizations

Aging Infrastructure

Favorable economic/political climate

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $2.2 trillion is needed over the next five years to restore existing infrastructure to acceptable levels

Aviation D

Bridges C

Dams D

Drinking Water D-

Energy D+

Hazardous Waste D

Inland Waterways D-

Levees D-

Public Parks & Recreation C-

Rail C-

Roads D-

School D

Solid Waste C+

Transit D

Wastewater D-

America’s Infrastructure currently

holds a “D” Average

(Source: American Society of Civil Engineers, Report Card for America’s Infrastructure 2009)

The Demand for Infrastructure in The United States



Global Growth Dynamics Drive Infrastructure Investment

Age China India Mexico Western

Europe

USA

0-19 30.9% 41.3% 41.0% 22.6% 27.7%

20-39 33.5% 32.2% 32.7% 26.6% 27.6%

40-59 24.8% 18.9% 18.1% 28.7% 27.9%

60+ 10.8% 7.65 8.2% 22.1% 16.8%

Developed Markets need to be rebuilt - Brownfield & Rehabilitative Brownfield Focus

Emerging Markets need to build infrastructure - Greenfield Focus

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Database, Global Population Report 2007 Published 2007



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$Billions

Years

Highway, transit rail, aviation, facilities ($69b)

Schools and school modernization ($40b)

Energy efficiency and green buildings ($20b)

Environmental restoration and watershed mgmt ($13b)

Water and Flood Control ($12b)

Medical, health and extended care facilities ($2b)

Source: Congressional Budget Office and ENR

$57b in peak year 2010 Construction Stimulus Government Outlay

U.S. Federal Stimulus Spending: Timing of Impact



Publicly Traded Liquid Securities

Global in scope

Mid to large cap companies

Traditional infrastructure sectors

Index Selection

– Other listed infrastructure benchmarks are market weighted

indices that will comprised of 90% utilities securities.

– S & P Global Infrastructure Index is 40% utilities, 40%

transportation and 20% energy.

What is the Value Proposition? Investing in a portfolio of listed infrastructure securities



Geographic exposure Subsector exposure

Listed Infrastructure Investment Universe




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Global ETF, ETN and ETC Product Developments - New Ideas and Trends


Pietro Poletto

London Stock Exchange Group ETFs & ETCs markets

6th Annual Global ETF Award

April 29th 2010

Pietro Poletto, London Stock Exchange Group

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Content

1. Evolution and structure of the UK and Italian ETF markets

2. London Stock Exchange Group ETFs & ETCs markets – main statistics

3. European comparison

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London Stock Exchange Group composition

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– 357 ETFs

– 37 structured ETFs

– 67 ETCs

– 242 ETFs

– 217 ETCs and 1 ETN

– 122 multi-currency ETFs/ETCs

– 127 OTC reportable ETFs

London Stock Exchange Group

ETFs and ETCs market

ETFplus – the Italian Market

for ETFs & ETCs

UK Market for ETFs, ETCs & ETNs

Regulator authority:FSA

Listing authority:UKLA

Listing authority:Borsa Italiana

Regulator authority:Consob

Data as of 9th April 2010

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1. Evolution and structure of the UK and Italian ETF markets

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Evolution of the UK ETF market

Firstfundamentals-based ETF launched

September‘06

September‘06

September‘07

November‘07

December‘07

February‘08

March ‘08 March ‘09

April ‘00

First ETF listed in the UK

March ‘07

Dedicated ETC market segment launched

LSE launches multicurrency ETF trading

UK change in stamp duty, opening the market to foreign issuers

100th ETF listed

First Shari’ahcompliant ETF listed

First short ETCs listed

Firstleveraged ETCs listed

First Exchange Traded Note islaunched in the UK

November‘09

First currencyETC

April ‘10

10th anniversaryof the first ETF listed

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Evolution of the Italian ETF market

September ’02

First ETFs listedon Borsa Italianaon Stoxx 50,Eurostoxx 50

November ‘03

First ETF on FTSE MIB

November ‘04

First ETFs on bond indices

November ‘05

First ETF on emergingmarkets (Hang Seng China Enterprises)

March ’07

100th listed ETF

2 April ‘07

ETFplus is born

May – July ’07

First structured ETFs listed: ShortLeveraged

September ‘07

First ETFs on Fundamental Indices

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Evolution of the Italian ETF market

October ‘07

First ETFs on EONIA

February ‘08

First structuredETFs on FTSE MIB

July ’08

First ETFs on credit indices

December ‘08

Trading Record: 1.55 € bn traded in a single session

February ‘09

300th listedETF

October ‘09

400th listed instruments on ETFplus

February ‘10

Record: € 295.4 mln of daily average turnover

February ‘10

Record: 27,043 trades on a single session

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2. London Stock Exchange Group ETFs & ETCs markets – main statistics

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Number of ETFs/ETCs/ETNs listed on LSE

Data source: London Stock Exchange, as of 9th April 2010

30

56

123

148

217

46

107

182221

242

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ETF

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ETC

ETFS

ETF

Total

461

Number of ETFs/ETCs listed on Borsa Italiana

Data source: Borsa Italiana, as of 9th April 2010

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Issuer Breakdown - LSE

147ETFSecurities

69UBS

1Source

N.ETCs

20ETFSecurities

12Source

90iShares – BlackRock

15PowerShares – Invesco

N.ETNs

1Lyxor

1Osmosis

3Marshall Wace

4HSBC

22Lyxor - Société Générale

75Db x-trackers - Deutsche Bank

N.ETFs

Data source: London Stock Exchange, as of 9th April 2010

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Issuer Breakdown - Borsa Italiana

Data source: Borsa Italiana, as of 9th April 2010

30Xmtch – Credit Suisse

17ETFSecurities

96iShares – BlackRock

30Amundi

N.ETC

67ETFSecurities

6JP Morgan

10Market Access – RBS

15EasyETF – BNP Paribas

16PowerShares – Invesco

85Lyxor - Société Générale

89Db x-trackers - Deutsche Bank

N.ETF

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London Stock Exchange - trades and turnover

Daily Average n. of Trades

2009: 4,018

Q1 2010: 4,865 +31% Y/Y

Daily Average Turnover

2009: £228.2 mln

Q1 2010: £382.8 mln +32% Y/Y

Daily Average (£m)

No. tradesDaily Average

Turnover

Data Source: London Stock Exchange, as of end March 2010

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Borsa Italiana: trades and turnover

Daily Average n. of Trades

2009: 9,688

Q1 2010: 11,780 +59.69% Y/Y

Daily Average Turnover

2009: 214.4 mln

Q1 2010: 246 mln +32.53% Y/Y

Data source Borsa Italiana, as of end of March 2010

Daily Average (€ mln)

Turnover

No. TradesDaily Average

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AUM in Monte Titoli (€ bn)

Data source: Borsa Italiana S.p.A. and Monte Titoli

0.53 bn

1.64 bn +209% Y/Y

3.98 bn +143% Y/Y

7.63 bn +92% Y/Y

10.06 bn +32% Y/Y 10.23 bn +2% Y/Y

13.47 bn +31.63% Y/Y

ETFplus – ETFs AUM in Italy

March 2010: 15.64 bn+16.12% YTD

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3. European comparison

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394

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632

521242

LSE

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217LSE

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London Stock Exchange Group – the biggest European market for ETFs and ETCs

Data source: FESE and LSE as of April 9th 2010 (multi currency ETFs and ETCs are not considered)

ETCs listedETFs listed

284636

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London Stock Exchange Group – market share (trades)

Data source: FESE

Year 2009

* For the London Stock Exchange Group FESE considers also ETCs trades (BIt 2,460,791, LSE 735,006) **Athens Exchange, Irish Stock Exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, CEESEG - Ljubljana Stock Exchange e CEESEG -Vienna

8,961,384

93,414

459,881

878,503

992,921

1,502,988

1,837,880

3,195,797

N. trades

1.04%

5.13%

9.80%

11.08%

16.77%

20.51%

35.66%

Market share (%)

+1.18%NYSE Euronext

+0.41%SIX

+0.43%Oslo Børs

-5.29%Deutsche Borse

Total

+0.91%Others**

-3.81%OMX

+6.16%LSEG*

on market share (%)

Exchange

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London Stock Exchange Group – market share (turnover)

Year 2009

*For the London Stock Exchange Group FESE considers also ETCs turnover (BIt 54.46 , LSE 43.06) **Athens Exchange, Irish Stock Exchange, BME (Spanish Exchange), Boerse Stuttgart, CEESEG - Ljubljana Stock Exchange e CEESEG - Vienna

1.95%

3.66%

3.95%

6.94%

20.96%

26.58%

35.96%

Market share (%)

366.87

7.15

13.43

14.49

25.47

76.88

97.52

131.93

Turnover (bn €)

+1.34%SIX

-5.62%NYSE Euronext

+1.99%Oslo Børs

-0.12%Deutsche Borse

Total

-0.15%Others**

-0.49%OMX

+3.06%LSEG*

on market share (%)

Exchange

Data source: FESE

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European Exchanges: average contract size, number of tradesand turnover Year 2009

15,285Oslo Børs

14,591OMX

55,380SIX

58,593London Stock Ex.

22,130Borsa Italiana

41,831NYSE Euronext

87,782Deutsche Borse

40,939Total

€Borsa

Average trade size

The bubble size is proportional to the average contract size

Data source: FESE

Deutsche

Börse

Euronext

OMX

SWX

Oslo Børs

Borsa Italiana

LSE

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Pietro Poletto – Head of ETFs and Fixed Income markets London Stock Exchange Group

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Risk, Regulation and Challenges -

What Lies Ahead and the Effects on the Global Marketplace


Bibb Strench

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ETF Risk Management Regulation and Financial Innovation

By Bibb L. Strench

Seward & Kissel LLP

[email protected]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently added a new division curiously called the

“Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation.” Typically, regulation, especially risk regulation,

would be expected to retard financial innovation. The new division is only one sign that the SEC and

other regulatory bodies are bulking up to impose risk management regulations at financial firms that

offer exchange!traded funds (ETFs) and other investment products.

Set forth below is an introduction to risk management regulatory efforts and related issues that

participants in the ETF industry should be aware of and in some cases adapt their organizations to

address. Risk management regulation has become increasingly important to ETFs both on a micro!level

– how to manage risks of the ETF firm in an operationally and regulatory sufficient manner !! and on a

macro!level – how the ETF industry can minimize the SEC and other regulators from imposing

burdensome and unnecessary risk management regulation. For these reasons, ETF providers need to

become well verse in risk management regulation and advocate of a risk management regulatory

scheme that reasonably addresses risks inherent in ETF operations without unduly chilling innovation in

the ETF industry.

Operational and Other Risks

The roots of risk management regulation are the internal controls at business entities. From the

beginning, sponsors and stake holders of corporate and trust entities have implemented a process to

control the operation of these entities. Operational risk or enterprise risk has been defined to be the

“risk of direct or indirect loss resulting from inadequate or failed processes, people and systems or from

external events.”1

A rudimentary example of a control addressing an operational risk is the need of a control to prevent

theft. A procedure should be in place that controls an officer’s ability to write a check drawn on the

entity’s bank account that is payable to the officer. An operational risk unique to ETFs and other

investment companies is ensuring the accuracy of the daily calculation of a fund’s net asset value in an

1 Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Operational Risk, Consultative Document (January, 2001).

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effort to avoid pricing errors. A firm offering an ETF has a host of other operational risks including those

inherent in the ETFs it offers, operations necessary to manage and offer the ETF and the ordinary risks

any business confronts.

Another type of risk, systemic risk, has historically been less relevant to ETFs. “Systemic risk” is a type of

risk that affects an entire financial market or system, and not just specific participants. The most

obvious example of a financial institution that presents systemic risk is a bank because failures and other

problems associated with a single bank’s lending and other activities can adversely impact the entire

banking system and economy as a whole.

There are examples of single investment management companies causing systemic disruptions in the

financial markets. On the private side, the failure of Long!Term Capital Management funds in 1998

linked to the Russian financial crisis led to the Federal Reserve System organizing a bailout for major

creditors of the funds that included large commercial and investment banks to prevent catastrophic

losses to the financial system. On the public side, the “breaking of the buck” by the Reserve Money

Market Fund in 2008 highly disrupted commercial paper markets and led to several programs by the

United States Treasury to restore confidence both in money market funds and the money market where

corporations issue commercial paper to finance their operations. Eventually, the Reserve Fund debacle

may lead to money market funds being subject to a “safety!and!soundness” approach used by federal

and state agencies to regulate banks.

Up until recently, systematic risk issues have not been raised by regulators with respect to ETFs and

investment companies. This is because ETFs do not issue depositary claims backed by the federal

government and losses at one ETF are unlikely to spill over to other ETFs or other market participants.

However, recent actions by the SEC suggest that the SEC, other regulators and Congress may be

examining whether certain types of ETFs raise systemic risk issues.

Evolution of Regulatory Risk Management

The government, particularly the SEC, has moved into the business of regulating risk management, a

business process that once was virtually regulatory!free and internal to the business entity. Over the

years, the internal control process at entities has become more formalized. One area of an entity’s

internal control that has been most formalized from a securities regulatory standpoint is financial

reporting. In 1985, a private!sector initiative known as the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial

Reporting or the “Treadway Commission” was formed to study the financial reporting system in the U.S.

Two years later, the Treadway Commission issued a report recommending that its sponsoring

organizations work together to integrate the various internal control concepts and definitions and to

develop a common reference point.

In response, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission or “COSO”

undertook an extensive study of internal control to establish a common definition that would serve the

needs of companies, independent public accountants, legislators and regulatory agencies, and to

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provide a broad framework of criteria against which companies could evaluate the effectiveness of their

internal control systems. In 1992, COSO published its “Internal Control !! Integrated Framework.” The

COSO Framework defined internal control as "a process, effected by an entity's board of directors,

management and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the

achievement of objectives" in three categories: effectiveness and efficiency of operations; reliability of

financial reporting; and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. COSO further stated that

internal control consists of: the control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and

communication, and monitoring. It is the risk assessment component of COSO that regulators and risk

control officers have borrowed from when implementing risk control programs at investment firms such

as ETF sponsors.

While there likely are a number of origins of government involvement in risk management, the most

notable are the SEC rules that Congress in Section 404 of the Sarbanes!Oxley Act directed the SEC to

adopt. These rules require companies subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange

Act of 1934 (1934 Act) to include in their annual reports a report of management on the company's

internal control over financial reporting. In defining the “internal control” aspects of the rules

implementing Section 404, the SEC drew heavily on COSO. Under these rules, management of a public

company must evaluate and assess its company’s internal control over financial reporting:

management should evaluate whether it has implemented controls that adequately

address the risk that a material misstatement of the financial statements would not be

prevented or detected in a timely manner. The guidance describes a top!down, risk!

based approach to this principle, including the role of entity!level controls in assessing

financial reporting risks and the adequacy of controls. The guidance promotes efficiency

by allowing management to focus on those controls that are needed to adequately

address the risk of a material misstatement of its financial statements.2

At this stage, the SEC generally had limited its risk management regulation to financial reporting and not

broader risks faced by companies:

A few of the commenters urged us to adopt a considerably broader definition of internal

control that would focus not only on internal control over financial reporting, but also

on internal control objectives associated with enterprise risk management and

corporate governance. While we agree that these are important objectives, the

definition that we are adopting retains a focus on financial reporting, consistent with

our position articulated in the Proposing Release. We are not adopting a more expansive

definition of internal control for a variety of reasons. Most important, we believe that

2 Guidance on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Securities Act Rel. No. 8810 (May 23, 2007).

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Section 404 focuses on the element of internal control that relates to financial

reporting.3

In addition, ETFs and other types of investment companies were not subject to this risk regulation

because Section 404 expressly exempted investment companies from its requirements.

Around this time, the SEC also began a limited form of risk management regulation when it

adopted rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of

1940 (1940 Act) requiring investment advisers and investment companies, including ETFs, to

implement compliance programs. While the rules did not expressly mandate risk management

procedures, the SEC in the release adopting the rules stated that: “[e]ach adviser, in designing

its policies and procedures, should first identify conflicts and other compliance factors creating

risk exposure for the firm and its clients in light of the firm's particular operations, and then

design policies and procedures that address those risks. “4

Senior officials at the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspection and Examinations (OCIE) informally engaged

in further risk management regulation when they dictated in a series of speeches at fund and adviser

conferences specific risk controls that investment advisers and investment companies should have in

place. In one speech, Gene Gohlke, an Associate Director of OCIE, identified ten areas of risk that should

be addressed by an investment advisers’ and investment companies’ compliance programs, and then

concluded his remarks by stating:

But as a director, I would want to recognize that the potential benefits of investing in

derivatives may quickly dissolve into disaster. I would want to understand those risks, be

assured that the fund's service providers understood those risks, and have seen that

appropriate processes and systems were put in place to manage, monitor, and mitigate

those risks. Only then would I feel comfortable in exposing the fund and its shareholders

to derivatives.5

While many criticized his remarks as being regulation by speech, his speech did signal the ETF and

investment management industry that more risk management regulation was on the horizon.

3 Management’ Report On Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act

Period Reports, Securities Exchange Act Rel. No. 47986 (June 5, 2003).

4 Compliance Programs of Investment Companies and Investment Advisers, Investment Advisers Act Rel. No. 2204

(Dec. 17, 2003).

5 G. Gohlke, Speech by SEC Staff: "If I Were a Director of a Fund Investing in Derivatives — Key Areas of Risk on

Which I Would Focus," Mutual Fund Directors Forum, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 8, 2007).

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Recent Events Signaling an Extensive Government Role in Risk Management

Recently, there has been a flurry of risk management regulation impacting ETFs and other investment

companies.

Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation

As previously noted, the SEC in September, 2009 created the Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial

Innovation. While little is known about how this Division will function, its actions in the risk

management regulatory area will clearly impact ETFs directly and indirectly. For example, the Division’s

first Director, Henry T.C. Hu, recently gave the following testimony before Congress on swap and other

over!the!counter (OTC) instruments, which are instruments commonly used by ETFs:

Regulation of major swap participants and dealers is a vital part of the OTC regulatory

regime. We understand that there may be entities that use swaps as risk management

tools . . . The term “risk management” is ambiguous and this wording could cause a

large number of important entities to fall outside this new needed regulation.6

ETF and Other Investment Company Disclosure Rules Mandating Board Involvement in Risk Management

On December 16, 2009, the SEC adopted rules that require ETFs and other investment companies to

describe in certain disclosure documents the board of director’s role in the oversight of risk.7 Effectively,

this disclosure rule requires ETFs to have a risk management process and the Board to monitor risk

management. The SEC noted that the disclosure about the board’s approach to risk oversight should

address whether the persons who oversee risk management report directly to the board and how the

board monitors risk.8

Proposed Rule 15c3!5

On January 19, 2010, the SEC proposed Rule 15c3!5 under the 1934 Act that will require broker!dealers

to implement risk management controls and supervisory procedures reasonably designed to manage

the financial, regulatory and other risks involved with trading ETFs and other securities on exchanges

and alternative trading systems.9

6 Testimony Concerning the Over!the!Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009 by Professor Henry T.C. Hu, Director

of the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation Before the House Committee on Financial Services

(Oct. 7, 2009).

7 Proxy Disclosure Enhancements, Investment Company Act Rel. No. 29092 (Dec. 16, 2010).

8 Id.

9 Risk Management Controls for Brokers or Dealers with Market Access, Securities Exchange Act Rel. No. 61379

(Jan. 19, 2010).

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ETF Freeze

The most recent example of the SEC’s expanding risk management regulatory initiatives is the SEC staff’s

recent announcement on March 25, 2010 that it is conducting a review to evaluate the use of

derivatives by ETFs and other investment companies.10

The staff has determined to defer consideration

of requests from ETFs for exemptive relief that would allow them to make significant investments in

derivatives. The staff further stated that its decision will affect new and pending requests from certain

actively!managed and leveraged ETFs that particularly rely on swaps and other derivative instruments to

achieve their investment objectives. The staff added that “funds that rely substantially upon derivatives,

particularly those that seek to provide leveraged returns, maintain and implement adequate risk

management and other procedures in light of the nature and volume of the fund's derivatives

transactions.” Id. This latest action should be of particular concern to the ETF industry because the SEC

unilaterally has curtailed the introduction of any new ETF that makes “significant investments” in

derivatives.

Congress

In the wake of the “Great Recession” during the past several years, Congress is considering the

enactment of a series of reforms, many of which will impose a form of risk management regulation

carried out by federal agencies such as the SEC. Derivative regulation, including the regulation of swaps

discussed above, will almost certainly be part of any securities reform laws eventually enacted by

Congress.

Global

International banking and securities regulators have been active in the area of risk management

regulation for a number of years. One group, the Senior Supervisors Group, an international body that

consists of banking and securities regulators from the U.S., including the SEC, and several European

countries issued a report that evaluates the effectiveness of current risk management practices during

this period of stress.11

The report noted that firms that tended to avoid significant challenges in recent

years typically had management information systems that assess risk positions using a number of tools

that draw on differing underlying assumptions and that the better performing firms had more adaptive

(rather than static) risk measurement processes and systems that could rapidly alter underlying

assumptions in risk measures to reflect current circumstances.12

The European Union has been a head of the SEC in terms of regulating risk management at firms

offering investment products through its Undertakings in Collective Investment in Transferable

10

Press Release, SEC Staff Evaluating the Use of Derivatives by Fund, 2010!45 (Mar. 25, 2010).

11 Observations on Risk Management Practice During the Recent Market Turbulence, (March 6, 2008).

12 Id.

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Securities (UCITS) regulatory scheme. Currently, UCITS III requires management firms to have

appropriate risk measurement processes in place to enable them to monitor, measure and manage at

any time the risks of the positions and their contributions to the overall risk!profile of the collective

investment fund’s portfolio. While the recent years have shown a rapid growth in the importance of risk

management within the UCITS environment, at least one major accounting firm predicts that since

increased regulatory focus did not prevent the financial market turmoil, “the road to an efficient

embedded Risk Management framework for UCITS is still long.”13

Since 2006, the senior levels of the SEC and the Financial Services Authority, the United Kingdom’s

securities regulator, have held a formal dialogue on current matters affecting the U.S. and U.K. capital

markets and areas of future collaboration. In their most recent meeting held on February 1, 2010, they

reiterated in a press release their focus on disclosure regimes around client asset risk and their efforts

seek “to address, among other things, the intrinsic links between the types and degree of risk a

regulated entity/registrant assumes and their corporate governance and compensation policies.”14

ETF Response to Risk Management Regulatory Creep

How should an ETF business react to the inevitable growth of risk management regulations? ETF

providers should examine their approach to risk management with respect to their ETF products and

operations. An ETF provider should dedicate a person or committee of employees, including

representatives of senior management, to the task of identifying and establishing controls for

operational risks. ETF providers might even consider establishing the position of “Chief Risk Officer” or

an “Operational Risk Committee.”

ETF providers also should attempt to identify risks inherent in their ETF products and operations.

Recently, respondents to a European survey identified the following twelve operational risks at

investment management firms, most of which are applicable to U.S. ETF operations:

breach of client guidelines

errors in issuing orders to brokers

risks arising in the process of taking over a new business

fraud

failure to meet guarantees provided on a particular product

13

PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg, Assess Your Risk Management Framework Under UCITS III

http://www.pwc.com/lu/en/risk!management/ucits!risk.jhtml (2009).

14 Press Release, SEC and UK FSA Hold Fifth Meeting of the SEC!FSA Strategic Dialogue, (Feb. 1, 2010).

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information technology systems failure

failure to reconcile assets under custodianship and internal records

failure to obtain the best price for a client

failure of a counterparty

settlement problems

failure to collect all income.15

Lastly, ETF providers should understand that they are part of a larger community with common interests

and concerns, including the potential for overzealous governmental risk management regulation that

threatens product innovation. In terms of financial history, the ETF is a relatively new product and the

industry would not have existed but for a number of innovators who toiled for years and finally

convinced the SEC that it was in the public interest to exempt the ETF product from certain provisions in

the 1940 Act that would have otherwise prevented the offering of the ETF product. Innovation will be

necessary to ensure the viability and continued growth of the ETF product.

Conclusion

Clearly, the SEC’s decision to devote an entire division to risk regulation and the recent decision by one

of its other divisions to freeze ETF exemptive applications involving significant use of derivatives should

be a wake!up call to the ETF industry. Its participants must pay close attention to the risk management

regulatory agenda of the SEC, other federal agencies, Congress and world bodies and consider ways to

advocate more reasonable regulatory approaches that avoid heavy handedness. The consequences of

inaction will be a new industry that is unable to offer innovative ETFs, that has increased barriers of

entry and that is less competitive to other financial products.

15

C. Calomiris and R. Herring, “The Regulation of Operational Risk in Investment Management Companies” in ICI

Perspective” 10 (Sept. 2002).




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MATERIAL


The Continued Evolution of Indexes




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MATERIAL


Emerging Markets Forum:

Q&A Session with Industry Participants from

the Local and International Markets


Deborah Fuhr

John Li

ETF Landscape

6th Annual ETF

Global AwardsApril 29, 2010

FOR INSTITUTIONAL USE – NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

Deborah Fuhr, Managing Director

Global Head of ETF Research & Implementation Strategy

Phone: +44 20 7668 4276 Email: [email protected]

2 ETF Landscape Industry Highlights March 2010

ETFs listed globallyas at end March 2010

Data as at end March 2010.Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of ETFs in Europe as the first ETFs to launch in Europe were the iShares DJ STOXX 50 (EUN1 GY) and iShares DJ Euro STOXX 50 (EUN2 GY) on 11 April 2000 on the Deutsche Boerse, followed by the iShares FTSE 100 (ISF LN) on the London Stock Exchange extraMARK segment on 28 April 2000.

We also celebrate the 20th anniversary since the launch of the very first ETF globally. Twenty years ago on 9 March 1990 the first ETF was listed in Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX): the TIPs (Toronto 35 Index Participation Fund) tracking the TSX 35 index. It was followed by the HIPs (Hundred Index Participation Fund) tracking the TSX 100 index on 26 September 1995. Ten years ago on 7 March 2000, the TIPs and HIPsETFs were merged into the iUnits S&P/TSE Index Participation Fund (XIU CN): an ETF that was originally listed on 4 October 1999.

At the end of March 2010 the global ETF industry had 2,131 ETFs with 4,133 listings, assets of US$1,081.9 Bn, from 123 providers on 42 exchanges around the world.

Assets

• YTD assets have increased by 4.4% from US$1,036.1 Bn to US$1,081.9 Bn, which is more than the 2.7% increase in the MSCI World Index in US dollar terms.


ETFs listed globally (continued)as at end March 2010

Data as at end March 2010.Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock.

ETFs

• YTD the number of ETFs increased by 9.4% with 193 new ETFs launched.

• The number of ETFs listed in Europe surpassed the US, with 910 ETFs listed in Europe, compared to 814 in the US.

• There are currently plans to launch 833 new ETFs.

• The top 100 ETFs, out of 2,131, account for 64.6% of global ETF AUM, while 404 ETFs have less than US$10.0 Mnin assets.

Exchanges

• YTD the number of exchanges with official listings has increased from 40 to 42.

Trading volume

• YTD the average daily trading volume in US dollars increased by 19.1% to US$59.9 Bn.

ETF providers

• Globally, iShares is the largest ETF provider in terms of both number of products, 437 ETFs, and assets ofUS$504.1 Bn, reflecting 46.6% market share; State Street Global Advisors is second with 108 products and US$159.4 Bn, 14.7% market share; followed by Vanguard with 47 products and assets of US$104.1 Bn and 9.6% market share at the end of March 2010.

• The top three ETF providers, out of 123, have 71.0% market share.


ETFs listed globally (continued)as at end March 2010

1 ETPs are products that have similarities to ETFs in the way they trade and settle but they do not use an open-end investment company structure. The use of other structures including grantor trusts, partnerships, notes and commodity pools by ETPs can create different tax and regulatory implications for investors when compared to ETFs which are funds.

Data as at end March 2010. Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg.

Index providers

• MSCI ranks first in terms of ETF AUM tied to their benchmarks with assets of US$256.2 Bn and 295 ETFs,

while Standard & Poors (S&P) ranks second with US$256.1 Bn and 262 ETFs, followed by Barclays Capital in

third with US$97.1 Bn and 75 ETFs.

Mutual funds

• Globally, net sales of mutual funds (excluding ETFs) were minus US$25.8 Bn, while net sales of ETFs were

US$14.1 Bn during the first two months of 2010 according to Strategic Insight.

ETPs

• Additionally, there were 718 other Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)1 with 1,025 listings and assets of

US$153.6 Bn from 42 providers on 18 exchanges.

ETFs & ETPs

• Combined, there were 2,849 products with 5,158 listings, assets of US$1,235.5 Bn from 147 providers on

44 exchanges around the world.


ETFs listed in the United Statesas at end March 2010


At the end of March 2010 the US ETF industry had 814 ETFs, assets of US$736.3 Bn, from 29 providers on two exchanges.

Assets

• YTD assets have increased by 4.4% from US$705.5 Bn to US$736.3 Bn, which is less than the 4.9% increase in the MSCI US Index in US dollar terms.

• US domiciled ETFs/ETPs experienced net inflows totalling US$8.9 Bn YTD. Fixed Income ETFs/ETPs saw positive flows with US$10.1 Bn net new assets, followed by Global (ex-US) equities with US$1.9 Bn net inflows while North American equities experienced US$2.4 Bn net outflows.

ETFs

• YTD the number of ETFs increased by 5.4% with 52 new ETFs launched, while 10 ETFs were delisted.

• The top 100 ETFs, out of 814, account for 83.5% of US ETF AUM, while 123 ETFs have less than US$10.0 Mn in assets.

• 29 January 2010 marked the 17th anniversary of ETFs in the US.

ETF providers

• iShares is the largest ETF provider in terms of both number of products, 197 ETFs, and assets of US$376.7 Bn, reflecting 51.2% market share; State Street Global Advisors is second with 89 products and US$147.9 Bn, a 20.1% market share; followed by Vanguard with 46 products, assets of US$104.0 Bn and 14.1% market share at the end of March 2010.

• US domiciled ETFs have seen net inflows of US$10.1 Bn YTD. Vanguard has received the largest inflows with US$8.4 Bnnet new assets, followed by iShares with US$2.5 Bn net inflows, and PowerShares with US$2.0 Bn net inflows, while State Street Global Advisors experienced US$7.6 Bn net outflows YTD.



ETFs listed in the United States (continued)as at end March 2010



Trading volume

• YTD the average daily trading volume in US dollars has increased by 21.6% to US$55.7 Bn.

Mutual funds

• In the US, net sales of mutual funds (excluding ETFs) were minus US$108.2 Bn, while net sales of ETFs domiciled in the US were positive US$5.5 Bn during the first two months of 2010 according to Strategic Insight.

ETPs

• Additionally, there were 145 other Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)1 with assets of US$85.4 Bn from 17 providers on one exchange.

ETFs & ETPs

• Combined, there were 959 products with assets of US$821.7 Bn from 42 providers on two exchanges in the US.


We celebrate the 10th anniversary of ETFs in Europe as the first ETFs to launch in Europe were the iShares DJ STOXX 50 (EUN1 GY) and iShares DJ Euro STOXX 50 (EUN2 GY) on 11 April 2000 on the Deutsche Boerse, followed by the iShares FTSE 100 (ISF LN) on the London Stock Exchange extraMARK segment on 28 April 2000.

At the end of March 2010 the European ETF industry had 910 ETFs with 2,579 listings, assets of US$233.7 Bn,

from 36 providers on 18 exchanges.

Assets

• YTD assets have increased by 3.0% from US$226.9 Bn to US$233.7 Bn, compared to the 2.2% fall in the MSCI Europe Index in US dollar terms.

• Net new assets into European domiciled ETFs/ETPs totalled US$11.5 Bn YTD, with Emerging Market equities receiving US$2.3 Bn net inflows, followed by Asia Pacific equities with US$1.9 Bn and Commodities with US$1.7 Bn net new assets YTD.

ETFs


• The top 100 ETFs, out of 910, account for 68.4% of European ETF AUM, while 164 ETFs have less than US$10.0 Mnin assets.

Exchanges

• YTD the number of exchanges with official listings remained unchanged at 18.

Trading volume

• YTD the average daily trading volume in US dollars increased by 0.9% to US$2.3 Bn. Most ETF trades are not required to be reported in Europe as ETFs are not covered by the European Union directive on markets in financial instruments (MiFID).


ETFs listed in Europeas at end March 2010


ETFs listed in Europe (continued)as at end March 2010



ETF providers

• iShares is the largest ETF provider in terms of both number of products, 172 ETFs, and assets of US$85.5 Bn, reflecting 36.6% market share; Lyxor Asset Management is second with 127 products and US$46.2 Bn, 19.8% market share; followed by db x-trackers with 120 ETFs and assets of US$38.6 Bn and 16.5% market share at the end of March 2010.

• Net new assets into European domiciled ETFs totaled US$11.2 Bn YTD. Lyxor Asset Management has received the largest inflows with US$1.7 Bn net new assets, followed by db x-trackers with US$1.6 Bn net inflows, and iShares with US$1.6 Bn net inflows YTD.


Mutual funds

• In Europe net sales of mutual funds (excluding ETFs) were US$54.3 Bn while net sales of ETFs domiciled in Europe were US$6.9 Bn during the first two months of 2010 according to Lipper FMI.

ETPs

• Additionally, there were 268 other Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)1 with 535 listings and assets of US$15.6 Bnfrom six providers on five exchanges.

ETFs & ETPs

• Combined, there were 1,178 products with 3,114 listings and assets of US$249.3 Bn from 39 providers on 18 exchanges in Europe.


ETFs listed in Canada as at end March 2010

Data as at end March 2010. Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

We celebrate the 20th anniversary since the launch of the very first ETF globally. Twenty years ago on 9 March 1990 the first ETF was listed in Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX): the TIPs (Toronto 35 Index Participation Fund) tracking the TSX 35 index. It was followed by the HIPs (Hundred Index Participation Fund) tracking the TSX 100 index on 26 September 1995. Ten years ago on 7 March 2000, the TIPs and HIPs ETFs were merged into the iUnitsS&P/TSE Index Participation Fund (XIU CN): an ETF that was originally listed on 4 October 1999.

At the end of March 2010 the Canadian ETF industry had 132 ETFs, assets of US$32.8 Bn, from four providers on one exchange.

Assets

• YTD assets have risen by 14.9% from US$28.5 Bn to US$32.8 Bn, which is more than the 5.2% increase in the MSCI Canada Index in US dollar terms.

ETFs


Trading volume

• YTD the average daily trading volume in US dollars has decreased by 14.9% to US$0.8 Bn.


ETFs listed in Canada (continued)as at end March 2010


Data as at end March 2010. Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg

ETF providers

• iShares is the largest ETF provider in terms of assets with US$26.3 Bn in 36 ETFs, reflecting 80.2% market share; Claymore Securities is second with 26 products and US$3.8 Bn, an 11.6% market share; followed by BetaProManagement with 48 products, assets of US$2.2 Bn and 6.7% market share at the end of March 2010.

ETPs

• Additionally, there was one other Exchange Traded Product (ETPs)1 with nine listings and assets of US$0.5 Bn from one provider on one exchange.


Data as at end March 2010.Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg.

Global ETF and ETP asset growth

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ETF Commodity Assets $0.0 $0.1 $0.3 $0.5 $1.2 $3.4 $6.3 $10.0 $25.6 $26.9

ETF Fixed Income Assets $0.1 $0.1 $4.0 $5.8 $23.1 $21.3 $35.8 $59.9 $104.0 $167.0 $178.8

ETF Equity Assets $0.8 $1.1 $2.3 $5.3 $8.2 $17.6 $39.6 $74.3 $104.7 $137.5 $205.9 $286.3 $389.6 $526.5 $729.9 $596.4 $841.2 $873.7

ETP Assets Total $2.0 $5.1 $3.9 $4.1 $6.3 $9.3 $15.9 $28.7 $47.5 $55.2 $150.8 $153.6

# ETFs 3 3 4 21 21 31 33 92 202 280 282 336 461 714 1,172 1,594 1,947 2,131

# ETPs 2 14 17 17 18 22 64 170 347 517 618 718

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Top 25 ETF providers around the worldRanked by AUM, as at end March 2010

PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

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AUM

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% MARKET

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iShares 437 $504.1 46.6% 24 24 5.8% $15.2 3.1% -0.6%

State Street Global Advisors 108 $159.4 14.7% 34 1 0.9% -$1.5 -1.0% -0.8%

Vanguard 47 $104.1 9.6% 3 0 0.0% $12.1 13.2% 0.7%

Lyxor Asset Management 129 $47.2 4.4% 1 4 3.2% $0.8 1.8% -0.1%

db x-trackers 137 $39.1 3.6% 9 16 13.2% $1.7 4.5% 0.0%

PowerShares 126 $38.0 3.5% 47 1 0.8% $3.4 9.8% 0.2%

ProShares 91 $23.3 2.2% 90 13 16.7% $0.1 0.5% -0.1%

Nomura Asset Management 30 $15.1 1.4% 0 0 0.0% $1.7 12.9% 0.1%

Van Eck Associates Corp 24 $13.7 1.3% 15 1 4.3% $1.2 9.7% 0.1%

Credit Suisse Asset Management 40 $11.3 1.0% 0 13 48.1% $1.7 17.4% 0.1%

Bank of New York 1 $9.0 0.8% 0 0 0.0% $0.4 4.8% 0.0%

Zurich Cantonal Bank 7 $7.4 0.7% 0 3 75.0% $0.7 10.4% 0.0%

Claymore Securities 61 $6.8 0.6% 25 4 7.0% $0.7 10.6% 0.0%

Commerzbank 68 $6.8 0.6% 6 6 9.7% $0.6 9.3% 0.0%

WisdomTree Investments 42 $6.7 0.6% 68 -10 -19.2% $0.3 4.2% 0.0%

Hang Seng Investment Management 3 $6.0 0.6% 0 0 0.0% $0.8 14.3% 0.0%

EasyETF 64 $6.0 0.6% 2 0 0.0% $0.1 1.8% 0.0%

Nikko Asset Management 12 $5.8 0.5% 0 2 20.0% $0.1 1.8% 0.0%

Amundi Investment Solutions 76 $5.7 0.5% 0 13 20.6% $0.9 19.1% 0.1%

ETFlab Investment 33 $5.6 0.5% 0 2 6.5% -$1.5 -20.6% -0.2%

Daiwa Asset Management 23 $5.1 0.5% 1 0 0.0% $0.2 3.1% 0.0%

Direxion Shares 34 $5.1 0.5% 100 8 30.8% $0.0 0.7% 0.0%

UBS Global Asset Management 16 $4.4 0.4% 0 2 14.3% $0.8 23.8% 0.1%

Rydex 31 $3.8 0.3% 82 0 0.0% $0.7 23.5% 0.1%

Source Markets 43 $3.6 0.3% 19 11 34.4% $0.8 27.5% 0.1%

Mar-10 YTD CHANGE



Index providers worldwideRanked by ETF AUM

Index Provider # ETFs

Total

Listings

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MSCI 295 866 $256.2 23.7% 27 $12.4 5.1%

S&P 262 410 $256.1 23.7% 29 $6.9 2.8%

Barclays Capital 75 171 $97.1 9.0% 5 $9.6 11.0%

Russell 59 88 $69.3 6.4% -2 $3.3 5.0%

STOXX 205 613 $49.2 4.5% 1 -$1.8 -3.5%

Dow Jones 150 245 $42.5 3.9% 14 $1.6 3.9%

FTSE 138 308 $42.2 3.9% 12 -$0.5 -1.3%

Markit 80 163 $38.3 3.5% 10 $0.1 0.4%

NASDAQ OMX 47 70 $29.3 2.7% 4 $2.8 10.6%

Deutsche Boerse 34 110 $22.6 2.1% 4 -$0.9 -3.8%

Topix 53 63 $14.1 1.3% 0 $1.7 13.6%

Hang Seng 9 23 $13.3 1.2% 0 $1.5 12.9%

Nikkei 9 13 $13.2 1.2% 1 $0.7 5.8%

EuroMTS 28 66 $10.6 1.0% 6 -$0.4 -3.2%

CAC 18 26 $7.3 0.7% 0 -$0.3 -3.6%

NYSE Euronext 15 17 $6.4 0.6% 5 $0.2 3.6%

WisdomTree 35 35 $5.9 0.5% -10 $0.1 1.0%

Indxis 7 8 $3.8 0.4% 0 $1.0 36.8%

Intellidex 38 41 $2.7 0.2% -4 $0.1 2.5%

BNY Mellon 11 12 $2.3 0.2% 0 $0.0 0.5%

Morningstar 10 10 $1.8 0.2% 0 $0.2 10.4%

S-Network 15 33 $1.2 0.1% 2 $0.1 5.1%

Zacks 14 15 $0.7 0.1% 0 $0.1 12.6%

Value Line 5 5 $0.3 0.0% 0 $0.0 9.3%

Other 519 722 $95.5 8.8% 79 $7.3 8.2%

Total 2,131 4,133 $1,081.9 100.0% 183 $45.8 4.4%

YTD ChangeMar-10

MSCI, 23.7%

S&P, 23.7%

Barclays Capital, 9%

Russell, 6.4%

STOXX, 4.5%

Dow Jones, 3.9%

FTSE, 3.9%

Markit, 3.5%

NASDAQ OMX, 2.7%

Deutsche Boerse, 2.1%

Topix, 1.3%

Hang Seng, 1.2%

Nikkei, 1.2%

EuroMTS, 1%

CAC, 0.7%

NYSE Euronext, 0.6%

WisdomTree, 0.5%

Indxis, 0.4%

Intellidex, 0.2%

BNY Mellon, 0.2%

Morningstar, 0.2%

S-Network, 0.1%

Zacks, 0.1%

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2

2

GR

0.07

1

21

1

A

0.27

1

1

1

F

55.05

9

416

244

FR

0.06

1

1

1

B

95.18AUM US$Bn

9Providers

958T listings

341P listings

G

P listings = Primary listingsT listings = Total listingsProviders = Primary ETF providersAUM = Assets Under Management in primary listings only

0.08

2

3

3

TH

2.28

2

14

12

TW

4.13

10

53

53

SK

2.42

8

55

11

SG

0.38

2

6

6

NZ

0.36

2

3

3

MY

27.31

6

73

70

J

2.53

3

27

6

AU

22.22

8

62

33

HK

0.33

6

14

14

IN

5.87

13

17

17

CH

0.00AUM US$Bn

1Providers

1T listings

1P listings

IND

-

-

25

-

CL

1.68

2

7

7

BZ

7.66

2

198

14

MX

736.30

29

814

814

US

32.76

4

156

132

CN

AUM US$Bn

Providers

T listings

P listings

32 33 34 35 36 3726 27 28 29 30 31

Global ETF listingsas at end March 2010

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

BZ (Brazil), CN (Canada), CL (Chile), US (United States)

A (Austria), B (Belgium), F (Finland), FR (France), G (Germany), GR (Greece), H (Hungary), I (Ireland), IT (Italy), N (Netherlands), NO (Norway), SAR (Saudi Arabia),

SL (Slovenia), SA (South Africa), SP (Spain), S (Sweden), SW (Switzerland), T (Turkey), UAE (United Arab Emirates), UK (United Kingdom)

AU (Australia), CH (China), HK (Hong Kong), IN (India), IND (Indonesia), J (Japan), MY (Malaysia),

NZ (New Zealand), SG (Singapore), SK (South Korea), TW (Taiwan), TH (Thailand)



US ETF and ETP asset growth

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# Products

ETF Assets $0.5 $0.4 $1.1 $2.4 $6.7 $15.6 $33.9 $65.6 $84.6 $102.3 $150.7 $227.7 $299.4 $406.8 $580.7 $497.1 $705.5 $736.3

ETP Assets $2.0 $5.0 $3.8 $4.0 $6.1 $8.9 $14.4 $25.9 $40.5 $45.3 $88.1 $85.4

# ETFs 1 1 2 19 19 29 30 81 101 113 117 152 201 343 601 698 772 814

# ETPs 2 14 17 17 17 17 20 37 71 136 141 145

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ETF providers in the United StatesRanked by AUM as at end March 2010


continued…

PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % Total # Planned

YTD NNA

(US$ BN) # ETFs % ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

iShares 197 $376.7 51.2% 22 $2.5 11 5.9% $12.3 3.4% -0.5%

State Street Global Advisors 89 $147.9 20.1% 33 -$7.6 1 1.1% -$1.9 -1.3% -1.2%

Vanguard 46 $104.0 14.1% 1 $8.4 0 0.0% $12.1 13.1% 1.1%

Powershares 107 $37.0 5.0% 46 $2.0 1 0.9% $3.4 10.0% 0.3%

ProShares 91 $23.3 3.2% 90 $0.5 13 16.7% $0.1 0.5% -0.1%

Van Eck Associates Corp 24 $13.7 1.9% 15 $1.2 1 4.3% $1.2 9.7% 0.1%

Bank of New York 1 $9.0 1.2% 0 -$0.2 0 0.0% $0.4 4.8% 0.0%

WisdomTree Investments 42 $6.7 0.9% 68 $0.6 -10 -19.2% $0.3 4.2% 0.0%

Direxion Shares 34 $5.1 0.7% 100 $0.1 8 30.8% $0.0 0.7% 0.0%

Rydex 31 $3.8 0.5% 82 $0.5 0 0.0% $0.7 23.5% 0.1%

Claymore Securities 35 $3.0 0.4% 22 $0.1 3 9.4% $0.1 4.3% 0.0%

First Trust Advisors 42 $2.8 0.4% 7 $0.7 2 5.0% $0.8 40.9% 0.1%

Charles Schwab Investment Management 8 $1.0 0.1% 0 $0.6 2 33.3% $0.6 174.8% 0.1%

PIMCO 10 $0.9 0.1% 10 $0.4 1 11.1% $0.4 84.3% 0.1%

RevenueShares 6 $0.4 0.1% 8 $0.1 0 0.0% $0.1 32.7% 0.0%

Fidelity Management & Research 1 $0.2 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 19.6% 0.0%

XShares Advisors 5 $0.2 0.0% 34 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 -8.8% 0.0%

Global X Funds 8 $0.1 0.0% 15 $0.1 1 14.3% $0.1 65.5% 0.0%

IndexIQ Advisors 7 $0.1 0.0% 46 $0.0 2 40.0% $0.0 37.0% 0.0%

Jefferies Asset Management 4 $0.1 0.0% 0 $0.0 1 33.3% $0.0 18.6% 0.0%

Emerging Global Advisors 6 $0.1 0.0% 15 $0.0 2 50.0% $0.0 96.3% 0.0%

Old Mutual Global Shares 2 $0.1 0.0% 3 $0.0 1 100.0% $0.0 23.1% 0.0%

ALPS ETF Trust 2 $0.0 0.0% 6 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 77.1% 0.0%

AdvisorShares 1 $0.0 0.0% 3 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 24.3% 0.0%

Grail Advisors 7 $0.0 0.0% 1 $0.0 2 40.0% $0.0 96.7% 0.0%

YTD ChangeMar-10


ETF providers in the United States (continued)Ranked by AUM as at end March 2010


PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % Total # Planned

YTD NNA

(US$ BN) # ETFs % ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

FaithShares 5 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 5.0% 0.0%

TXF Funds 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 1.9% 0.0%

OOK Advisors 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 0.0% 0.0%

Javelin Investment Management 1 $0.0 0.0% 1 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 -82.8% 0.0%

SPA ETF International - - - 7 - - - - - -

Capital West Securities - - - 1 - - - - - -

Exchange Traded Spreads Trust - - - 4 - - - - - -

Eaton Vance - - - 5 - - - - - -

FactorShares - - - 5 - - - - - -

Firsthand Capital - - - 1 - - - - - -

Factor Advisors - - - 22 - - - - - -

Florentez Investment - - - 1 - - - - - -

FocusShares - - - 6 - - - - - -

JP Morgan Asset Management - - - 2 - - - - - -

Macro Securities Depositor - - - 2 - - - - - -

Next Investments - - - 1 - - - - - -

Pax World Funds - - - 3 - - - - - -

RiverPark Advisors - - - 2 - - - - - -

Russell Investments - - - 0 - - - - - -

ShariahShares - - - 2 - - - - - -

Spinnaker ETF Trust - - - 1 - - - - - -

T Rowe Price - - - 1 - - - - - -

Total 814 $736.3 100.0% 694 $10.1 42 5.4% $30.8 4.4%

YTD ChangeMar-10


NNA – Net New Assets. Data as at end March 2010.

Source: National Stock Exchange (NSX), Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock.

US ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure

ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Equity 54,610.8 616,940.9 14,237.2 (1,352.5) 36,476.3

North America - Equity 46,369.9 413,266.7 12,167.3 (2,363.9) 1,987.0

Broad 34,043.2 318,652.3 8,696.4 (5,107.1) (11,180.1) Active 0.1 17.5 1.4 2.8 12.8

Real Estate 1,071.1 13,350.7 417.4 221.5 4,377.4

Technology 693.1 11,337.7 368.4 382.7 2,626.7

Financials 5,201.2 17,628.9 478.2 (687.5) 1,409.1

Energy 2,185.7 16,553.7 408.8 585.3 1,145.3

Materials 1,144.2 5,080.6 51.0 186.5 1,206.2

Consumer Goods/Services 1,105.3 8,719.1 818.0 1,047.8 287.2

Industrials 393.1 5,059.6 557.7 723.1 914.1

Utilities 174.6 4,536.8 56.1 (96.2) 1,526.9

Telecommunications 11.1 992.2 (1.1) 18.9 139.4

Other 16.5 2,103.2 18.8 37.2 (77.1)

Healthcare 330.7 9,234.3 296.0 320.9 (400.8)

Global (ex-US) - Equity 1,028.9 56,747.7 855.6 1,855.8 691.4

Asia Pacific - Equity 550.8 19,895.4 597.9 653.2 1,825.8

Europe - Equity 139.7 8,647.9 (125.1) (67.2) 1,574.0

Global - Equity 115.9 12,915.8 242.5 656.0 3,353.7

EXPOSURE Q1 2010 NNA (US$ Mn) 2009 NNA (US$ Mn)

Mar-10


US ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure(continued)



ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Emerging Markets - Equity 6,405.6 105,467.5 499.0 (2,086.4) 27,044.5

Broad - EM 3,372.6 64,130.5 139.2 (858.7) 16,691.3

Regional - EM 114.4 4,165.5 (52.9) (297.4) 1,400.7

Country - EM 2,918.5 37,171.6 412.7 (930.3) 8,952.5

Brazil 1,233.8 11,623.2 (31.6) 33.4 2,545.7

Chile 9.3 365.9 (5.3) 78.3 50.1

China 1,035.5 10,246.8 (147.8) (1,787.1) 2,191.1

Colombia 0.4 9.7 1.6 1.6 5.3

Egypt 0.1 2.0 - -

India 50.9 2,363.4 12.7 18.8 774.6

Indonesia 8.4 322.4 64.3 87.8 167.5

Israel 4.9 266.2 25.8 73.5 22.5

Malaysia 16.9 609.2 (6.9) 20.2 61.0

Mexico 139.7 1,298.2 203.1 97.8 302.0

Peru 2.7 168.2 36.0 55.1 96.3

Poland 0.2 19.2 - 10.2 7.3

Russia 90.2 1,926.1 213.9 369.0 378.8

South Africa 15.4 464.3 (17.6) (64.8) 18.4

South Korea 149.1 3,306.5 87.5 145.5 770.6

Taiwan 141.8 3,377.1 (56.0) (116.4) 1,093.7

Thailand 7.6 263.9 25.1 0.3 174.8

Turkey 8.4 407.4 (10.3) (7.2) 204.7

Vietnam 3.2 131.9 18.1 53.6 88.2


Mar-10


US ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure(continued)



ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Fixed Income 1,622.1 116,869.8 4,671.7 10,098.6 44,801.9

Corporate 158.4 21,927.2 801.7 1,330.9 10,560.6

Inflation 128.9 21,873.7 227.8 1,880.0 10,139.8

Aggregate 187.4 25,610.2 720.7 1,891.2 8,216.7

Government 931.8 28,588.1 1,542.7 2,647.0 6,706.9

High Yield 142.3 9,871.8 1,025.8 1,506.6 4,429.4

Municipal 53.6 6,665.7 283.5 632.7 3,574.6

Mortgage 13.5 1,825.4 (13.8) (3.2) 913.1

Convertible 2.5 289.7 27.2 46.8 212.0

Active 3.7 218.0 56.1 166.5 48.8

Commodities 3,401.4 78,712.3 1,132.6 (113.4) 32,551.8

Precious Metals 2,463.6 57,089.8 1,089.2 648.8 18,793.2

Energy 677.8 6,931.8 (312.7) (1,422.2) 6,055.9

Broad 166.8 10,208.6 316.4 613.3 4,958.1

Agriculture 46.1 3,133.8 50.3 157.3 1,927.6

Industrial Metals 44.5 1,249.6 (10.5) (108.4) 798.1

Livestock 2.6 98.6 - (2.2) 18.9

Currency 314.3 6,868.2 (302.8) (1,086.0) 4,154.9

Alternative 191.3 1,664.1 638.7 1,254.5 1,258.7

Mixed 7.7 636.6 58.9 115.7 225.5

Total 60,147.6 821,691.9 20,436.3 8,916.9 119,469.1


Mar-10



Types of ETF exposure: United States

Large-Cap - Equity, 19.9%

Fixed Income, 15.2%

Emerging Markets - Equity, 14%

International - Equity, 13.8%

Sector - Equity, 10.8%

Growth - Equity, 5.1%

Value - Equity, 4.4%

Broad Market - Equity, 3.6%

Mid-Cap - Equity, 3.4%

Small-Cap - Equity, 3.3%

Leveraged Inverse, 2.1%

Custom, 1.6%

Leveraged, 1.3%

Commodities, 1%

Inverse, 0.4%

Currency, 0.2%

Active, 0%

Exposure # ETFs

AUM


AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

Equity 493 $575.3 78.1% 9 $17.0 3.0%

Large-Cap - Equity 39 $146.3 19.9% -1 -$4.0 -2.7%

Emerging Markets - Equity 72 $102.8 14.0% 8 -$1.0 -1.0%

International - Equity 147 $101.3 13.8% -1 $4.3 4.5%

Sector - Equity 135 $79.4 10.8% 1 $7.2 9.9%

Growth - Equity 27 $37.2 5.1% 0 $1.9 5.5%

Value - Equity 27 $32.5 4.4% 0 $3.1 10.6%

Broad Market - Equity 16 $26.2 3.6% 2 $2.0 8.4%

Mid-Cap - Equity 12 $25.3 3.4% 0 $2.4 10.7%

Small-Cap - Equity 18 $24.2 3.3% 0 $1.1 4.6%

Fixed Income 90 $112.1 15.2% 5 $10.3 10.1%

Leveraged Inverse 62 $15.6 2.1% 8 $1.0 6.6%

Custom 59 $11.8 1.6% 1 $2.7 29.5%

Leveraged 58 $9.8 1.3% 10 -$1.1 -9.9%

Commodities 14 $7.1 1.0% 3 $0.2 3.0%

Inverse 14 $3.0 0.4% 3 $0.2 6.4%

Currency 8 $1.3 0.2% 0 $0.4 43.9%

Active 16 $0.3 0.0% 3 $0.2 177.8%

Total 814 $736.3 100.0% 42 $30.8 4.4%

YTD ChangeMar-10


Top 10 ETFs in the USRanked by Assets Under Management (AUM)

Ranked by US$ Average Daily Trading Volumes (ADV)


ETF

Bloomberg

Ticker

AUM

(US$ MN)

ADV

('000 Shares)

ADV

(US$ MN)

SPDR S&P 500 SPY US $78,098 169,558 $19,623

iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund EFA US $35,805 15,828 $874

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund EEM US $35,041 62,035 $2,558

Vanguard Emerging Markets VWO US $22,991 11,734 $482

iShares S&P 500 Index Fund IVV US $22,859 3,524 $409

PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQQ US $21,021 70,597 $3,348

iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund TIP US $20,028 1,037 $108

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF VTI US $14,476 2,006 $118

iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund IWM US $13,350 58,255 $3,926

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund LQD US $12,316 680 $72

ETF

Bloomberg

Ticker

ADV

(US$ MN)

ADV

('000 Shares)

AUM

(US$ MN)

SPDR S&P 500 SPY US $19,623 169,558 $78,098

iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund IWM US $3,926 58,255 $13,350

PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQQ US $3,348 70,597 $21,021

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund EEM US $2,558 62,035 $35,041

Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x Shares FAS US $2,423 26,974 $885

iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund EWZ US $1,213 16,839 $10,883

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund XLF US $1,207 77,355 $6,819

Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund XLE US $1,011 17,533 $5,942

iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund FXI US $977 23,570 $8,012

Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x Shares FAZ US $903 61,802 $1,235


Average expenses of ETFs vs open-end mutual funds in the US

*As at end February 2010.**Captured from Morningstar on 15 March 2010.

Source: Morningstar, Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock.

Average TER(s)

Average

TER (bps)

Exchange Traded Funds*

Active 57Broad Market - Equity 18

Commodities 57

Currency 48Custom 44

Fixed Income 22Growth - Equity 21

International - Equity 42

Inverse 95Large-Cap - Equity 13

Leveraged 95

Leveraged Inverse 95Mid-Cap - Equity 22

Sector - Equity 32Small-Cap - Equity 21

Value - Equity 21

Total - Equity ETFs 34Total - Fixed Income ETFs 25

Total - All 33

Open-end Mutual Funds**

Passive/Indexed Domestic Equity 93

Passive/Indexed International Equity 83Passive/Indexed Fixed Income 40

Actively Managed Domestic Equity 146

Actively Managed International Equity 160Actively Managed Fixed Income 105


Short InterestUS listed ETF & HOLDRS Short Interest

Source: Regulatory Notice 09-31, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. SECWith short sales the investor risks paying more for a security than the investor received from its sale.

Data as at mid March 2010. Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg.

• Short Interest in US listed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) were the highest ever during 2008.

– Based on data through March 2010 the average number of ETF shares short during 2010 YTD is 1,670 million shares which is lower than the average of 1,693 million in 2008, but higher than the average of 1,653 million in 2009 and significantly higher than the average of 1,242 million during 2007 and 837 million in 2006. The March 2010 short interest level for US-listed ETFs was 11.3% of shares outstanding or 1,741 million shares, up 0.3% from 1,735 million in December 2009.

• Investors are using ETFs for long/short and hedging strategies.

– At the end of March 2010, there were 814 ETFs listed in the US and 2,131 ETFs worldwide, which provide exposure to equity sectors, styles, countries and regional indices as well as fixed income, commodity indices and currencies.

• Security lending revenue on ETFs can be attractive.

– For investors who own ETF shares, the lending revenue that can be earned on ETFs, may at times, and for some ETFs, more than coverthe annual Total Expense Ratio (TER).

• Short Interest is often considered an indication of the level of scepticism in the market.

– Short interest data is captured for US listed securities on the 15th of each month or the next business day and reflects the number of shares that have yet to be repurchased to give back to lenders. The higher the short interest, the more investors are expecting a downturn. Short positions fall in value as stocks rise, and vice versa.

The rules on shorting ETFs on financial indices and the use of inverse and leveraged inverse ETFs on financial indices in the various markets are continually being updated as regulators react to market conditions and the actions of other regulators – so the position is quite fluid.

On 26 February 2010 the SEC approved a new rule that places restrictions on short selling a security when it has experienced a price decline of at least 10% in a single day. If this level is reached, short selling is only allowed if the price of the security is above the current national best bid.

Date

Short Interest

(MN Shares)

% of Shares

Outstanding

S&P 500

Index Level Short Interest

2003 Avg 812 27.1% 983 812,125,142

2004 Avg 952 26.3% 1,127 952,219,766

2005 Avg 781 17.2% 1,206 781,047,462

2006 Avg 837 13.5% 1,283 837,003,935

2007 Avg 1,242 16.1% 1,475 1,241,587,124

2008 Avg 1,693 17.0% 1,209 1,693,145,303

2009 Avg 1,653 12.4% 948 1,652,786,269

2010 Avg YTD 1,670 10.8% 1,128 1,669,631,983

Jan-10 1,522 9.9% 1,138 1,522,472,484

Feb-10 1,746 11.3% 1,095 1,745,601,507

Mar-10 1,741 11.3% 1,151 1,740,821,957


ETP providers in the United StatesRanked by assets, as at end March 2010


PROVIDER # ETPs

Assets

(US$ BN) % Total # Planned # ETPs % ETPs

Assets

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

State Street Global Advisors 1 $40.0 46.9% 0 -$0.1 0 0.0% $0.3 0.7% 1.8%

Deutsche Bank 34 $11.8 13.8% 2 -$1.5 0 0.0% -$1.8 -13.3% -1.6%

iShares 4 $9.6 11.3% 1 -$0.2 0 0.0% -$0.1 -0.8% 0.3%

Barclays (iPath) 30 $6.6 7.8% 3 $1.3 0 0.0% $0.7 11.0% 1.0%

United States Commodity Funds 7 $4.9 5.7% 1 -$1.3 0 0.0% -$2.6 -35.0% -2.8%

Merrill Lynch 17 $4.8 5.6% 0 -$0.5 0 0.0% -$0.4 -8.3% -0.3%

Rydex 9 $2.7 3.2% 13 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 0.4% 0.1%

ETF Securities 4 $1.3 1.5% 1 $0.7 2 100.0% $0.8 158.4% 0.9%

ProShares 12 $1.2 1.5% 38 $0.2 0 0.0% $0.2 19.8% 0.3%

JPMorgan Chase 2 $1.0 1.2% 0 $0.2 0 0.0% $0.3 37.5% 0.3%

Swedish Export Credit Corp 7 $0.9 1.1% 0 $0.1 0 0.0% $0.0 1.5% 0.0%

GreenHaven Commodity Services 1 $0.2 0.3% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 4.6% 0.0%

Morgan Stanley 4 $0.1 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 32.4% 0.0%

HSBC USA 1 $0.1 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 -12.0% 0.0%

Goldman Sachs 2 $0.1 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 -2.4% 0.0%

Barclays Capital 8 $0.1 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.0 2.5% 0.0%

Credit Suisse 2 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 1 100.0% $0.0 342.6% 0.0%

Jefferies Asset Management - - - 2 -

Sprott Asset Management - - - 1 - - - - - -

Total 145 $85.4 100.0% 62 -$1.2 3 2.1% -$2.7 -3.1%

YTD ChangeMar-10

YTD NNA

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ETF Assets Total $0.7 $5.7 $10.7 $20.4 $34.0 $54.9 $89.7 $128.5 $142.7 $226.9 $233.7

ETF Commodity Assets $0.4 $2.0 $3.3 $4.9 $15.2 $16.6

ETF Fixed Income Assets $1.0 $2.9 $5.2 $12.1 $21.0 $41.1 $51.6 $51.1

ETF Equity Assets $0.7 $5.7 $10.7 $19.4 $31.0 $49.3 $75.7 $103.5 $96.6 $159.8 $165.6

ETP Assets $1.1 $2.1 $4.9 $7.0 $15.7 $15.5

# ETFs 6 71 118 104 114 165 273 423 635 829 910

# ETPs 2 32 56 123 158 268

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Mar-10


ETF providers in EuropeRanked by AUM, as at end March 2010


continued…

PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % Total

#

Planned # ETFs % ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

iShares 172 $85.5 36.6% 1 $1.6 4 2.4% -$0.23 -0.3% -1.2%

Lyxor Asset Management 127 $46.2 19.8% 0 $1.7 4 3.3% $0.63 1.4% -0.3%

db x-trackers 120 $38.6 16.5% 9 $1.6 4 3.4% $1.42 3.8% 0.1%

Credit Suisse Asset Management 40 $11.3 4.8% 0 $1.5 13 48.1% $1.68 17.4% 0.6%

Zurich Cantonal Bank 7 $7.4 3.2% 0 $0.5 3 75.0% $0.70 10.4% 0.2%

Commerzbank 68 $6.8 2.9% 6 $0.7 6 9.7% $0.58 9.3% 0.2%

EasyETF 64 $6.0 2.6% 2 $0.1 0 0.0% $0.10 1.8% 0.0%

Amundi Investment Solutions 76 $5.7 2.4% 0 $1.0 13 20.6% $0.91 19.1% 0.3%

ETFlab Investment 33 $5.6 2.4% 0 -$0.2 2 6.5% -$1.46 -20.6% -0.7%

UBS Global Asset Management 16 $4.4 1.9% 0 $0.9 2 14.3% $0.84 23.8% 0.3%

Source Markets 43 $3.6 1.5% 19 $0.8 11 34.4% $0.78 27.5% 0.3%

XACT Fonder 12 $2.6 1.1% 0 -$0.1 0 0.0% $0.00 -0.1% 0.0%

Julius Baer 16 $2.6 1.1% 0 $0.5 12 300.0% $0.47 22.2% 0.2%

BBVA Asset Management 8 $2.2 0.9% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% -$0.18 -7.6% -0.1%

State Street Global Advisors 13 $1.4 0.6% 0 -$0.1 0 0.0% -$0.09 -6.1% -0.1%

PowerShares 19 $1.0 0.4% 1 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.04 3.7% 0.0%

RBS 10 $0.8 0.4% 21 $0.1 0 0.0% $0.07 8.9% 0.0%

Marshall Wace Asset Management 3 $0.4 0.2% 0 $0.4 3 100.0% $0.40 100.0% 0.2%

ETF Securities 23 $0.4 0.2% 0 $0.1 2 9.5% $0.08 25.7% 0.0%

DnB NOR Asset Management 3 $0.3 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.02 5.7% 0.0%

Seligson & Co Fund Management 1 $0.3 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.01 4.2% 0.0%

Mar-10 YTD Change

YTD NNA

(US$ BN)


ETF providers in Europe (continued)Ranked by AUM, as at end March 2010


PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % Total

#

Planned # ETFs % ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

JPM Structured Fund Management 6 $0.2 0.1% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% -$0.03 -14.9% 0.0%

HSBC 4 $0.1 0.1% 0 $0.0 1 33.3% $0.06 69.5% 0.0%

Finans Portfoy Yonetimi 6 $0.1 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% -$0.04 -27.9% 0.0%

Alpha Asset Management 1 $0.1 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% -$0.01 -13.4% 0.0%

Beta1 ETFund 3 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 -5.6% 0.0%

NCB Investment Services 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 1.8% 0.0%

OTP Fund Management 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 3.8% 0.0%

NBG Asset Management 1 $0.0 0.0% 1 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.01 100.0% 0.0%

Medvesek Pusnik AM 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 3.7% 0.0%

Is Investment 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 -27.4% 0.0%

Osmosis Investment Management 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 1 100.0% $0.00 100.0% 0.0%

Bizim Menkul Degerler 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 -0.1% 0.0%

Ak Securities 1 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 -0.2% 0.0%

Think Capital 5 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 0.0% 0.0%

HQ Fonder 3 $0.0 0.0% 0 $0.0 0 0.0% $0.00 0.0% 0.0%

Legg Mason - - - 1 - - - - - -

Garanti Bank - - - 1 - - - - - -

Hinduja Bank (Switzerland) - - - 1 - - - - - -

Qbasis Invest - - - 1 - - - - - -

Total 910 $233.7 100.0% 64 $11.2 81 9.8% $6.75 3.0%

Mar-10 YTD Change

YTD NNA

(US$ BN)


Fixed Income, 21.7%

Country Exposure Europe - Equity, 15.3%

Regional Exposure Eurozone - Equity, 14%

Emerging Markets - Equity, 10.8%

Commodities, 7.1%

Country Exposure United States - Equity, 5.8%

Regional Exposure Europe - Equity, 5.3%

International - Equity, 5.8%

European Sector Exposure - Equity, 4.4%

Global Exposure - Equity, 4.1%

Style - Equity, 2.3%

Inverse, 1.4%

Eurozone Sector Exposure - Equity, 0.8%

Leveraged, 0.7%

Leveraged Inverse, 0.5%

Currency, 0.1%

US Sector Exposure - Equity, 0%

Mixed (Equity & Fixed Income), 0%

Alternative, 0%

Types of ETF exposure in Europe

ETFs should be viewed as a tool for both active and passive managers


Type of Exposure # ETFs

AUM


AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

Equity - Total 623 $160.0 68.5% 43 $5.6 3.6%

Country Exposure Europe - Equity 96 $35.7 15.3% 5 -$1.1 -3.1%

Regional Exposure Eurozone - Equity 37 $32.8 14.0% 3 -$2.2 -6.4%

Emerging Markets - Equity 88 $25.2 10.8% 4 $2.8 12.4%

Country Exposure United States - Equity 39 $13.5 5.8% 2 $1.5 12.2%

Regional Exposure Europe - Equity 49 $12.3 5.3% 2 $0.3 2.6%

International - Equity 64 $13.5 5.8% 9 $2.5 23.1%

European Sector Exposure - Equity 127 $10.2 4.4% 1 $0.0 0.1%

Global Exposure - Equity 50 $9.5 4.1% 4 $1.4 17.1%

Style - Equity 43 $5.3 2.3% 2 $0.6 13.0%

Eurozone Sector Exposure - Equity 18 $1.8 0.8% 0 -$0.2 -9.6%

US Sector Exposure - Equity 12 $0.1 0.0% 11 $0.1 233.9%

Fixed Income 158 $50.8 21.7% 10 -$0.6 -1.2%

Commodities 57 $16.6 7.1% 22 $1.4 9.2%

Inverse 38 $3.3 1.4% 8 $0.5 18.5%

Leveraged 15 $1.6 0.7% 1 $0.0 0.4%

Leveraged Inverse 9 $1.1 0.5% 0 $0.0 1.1%

Currency 4 $0.3 0.1% -2 -$0.1 -23.5%

Mixed (Equity & Fixed Income) 4 $0.1 0.0% 0 $0.0 18.1%

Alternative 2 $0.0 0.0% -1 -$0.1 -61.3%

Total 910 $233.7 100.0% 81 $6.8 3.0%

Mar-10 YTD Change


European ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure



ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Equity 1,891.3 164,412.3 1,506.9 8,045.4 32,724.1

Europe - Equity 1,327.8 101,574.8 (415.1) 1,230.3 18,204.7

Broad 1,208.0 88,919.6 (751.2) 1,022.6 14,817.6

Consumer Goods/Services 13.8 1,615.3 150.9 164.0 335.4

Energy 6.5 1,167.6 5.7 70.9 322.1

Financials 34.1 3,147.1 409.8 212.4 825.5

Healthcare 9.4 1,049.5 (88.1) (42.8) 145.9

Industrials 4.3 514.6 9.5 38.1 136.6

Information Technology 4.7 440.4 (13.4) 30.4 12.4

Materials 27.2 1,777.8 41.4 (19.6) 522.5

Private Equity 0.8 87.7 7.1 31.7 34.2

Real Estate 6.2 1,437.0 20.9 44.0 333.6

Telecommunications 6.6 597.6 (14.6) (312.9) 425.0

Utilities 6.0 765.7 (193.1) (2.9) 361.3

Other 0.2 55.1 - (5.7) (67.4)

North America - Equity 145.8 16,294.8 502.7 1,438.5 1,561.5

Asia Pacific - Equity 65.0 10,783.6 414.8 1,903.6 2,662.0

Global - Equity 90.4 10,475.8 81.1 1,176.5 2,799.6


Mar-10




European ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure (continued)

ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Emerging Markets - Equity 262.3 25,283.3 923.3 2,296.5 7,496.4

Broad - EM 77.0 10,742.9 454.8 1,102.5 3,665.0

Regional - EM 28.0 3,123.2 55.8 63.0 778.8

Country - EM 157.3 11,417.2 412.8 1,131.0 3,052.7

Brazil 27.2 2,494.7 36.8 138.8 811.2

China 32.7 3,016.2 3.4 137.0 862.9

Egypt 0.1 8.1 1.5 1.5 (5.2)

Hungary 0.7 19.3 (0.3) (0.9) (0.3)

India 21.0 2,250.3 29.6 122.9 616.3

Kuwait 0.1 34.0 0.8 0.8 14.5

Malaysia 0.4 40.9 11.7 15.9 10.1

Russia 24.9 1,492.2 230.4 432.5 174.2

South Africa 3.9 268.2 23.2 70.7 64.3

South Korea 7.5 669.5 57.0 182.9 152.3

Taiwan 6.8 476.4 7.5 66.4 137.7

Thailand - - - - 30.5

Turkey 30.6 492.1 17.8 (26.8) 113.3

UAE 0.0 13.2 - - 7.2

Vietnam 1.3 141.8 (6.7) (10.7) 63.6


Mar-10




European ETF/ETP net new assets by type of exposure (continued)

ADV

(US$ Mn)

ASSETS

(US$ Mn)

NNA

(US$ Mn)

Fixed Income 326.5 51,141.7 821.0 1,408.1 9,453.3

Broad 2.1 158.1 30.9 52.2 102.3

Corporate 56.3 9,073.0 340.8 605.0 4,770.8

Covered 1.9 706.6 - 44.3 438.4

Credit Spreads 2.7 789.8 39.0 (88.1) (291.1)

Government 175.7 26,991.4 146.0 1,283.1 6,193.2

Inflation 23.8 4,356.0 19.8 56.2 2,365.8

Money Market 59.4 7,364.2 314.0 (547.0) (4,518.2)

Mortgage 4.7 1,702.6 (69.6) 2.4 392.1

Commodities 78.1 32,116.9 881.6 1,695.2 13,657.9

Broad 22.7 5,204.3 158.8 488.5 2,985.9

Agriculture 1.2 1,853.4 79.5 41.7 1,294.3

Energy 0.5 2,376.5 141.9 76.6 1,834.2

Industrial Metals 0.1 675.7 0.2 85.0 343.5

Livestock - 83.0 4.0 7.0 29.4

Precious Metals 53.6 21,924.0 497.3 996.3 7,170.7

Currency 0.7 338.4 21.5 78.1 190.7

Alternative 3.4 1,202.0 6.7 272.8 898.1

Mixed 0.7 84.0 5.2 12.4 14.8

Total 2,300.6 249,295.3 3,243.0 11,512.0 56,939.0


Mar-10


STOXX 600 Sector ETF net flows For the week ending 01 April 2010

• AUM in sector ETFs is now more than double the US$4.0 Bn open interest in sector futures.

• Last week saw US$46.8 Mn net inflows to STOXX 600 sector ETFs. The largest sector ETF inflows last week were in Banks with US$60.7 Mn and Media with US$20.8 Mn while Insurance experienced net outflows of US$20.0 Mn.

Index returns are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent actual fund performance.Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs or expenses.

Indices are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index. Past performance does not guarantee future results.Source: Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg.

• Year-to-date, Media has had the largest net inflows with US$311.6 Mn net new assets, followed by Banks with US$200.9 Mn YTD. Telecommunications sector ETFs have had the largest net outflows with US$274.6 Mn YTD.

# STOCKS % WEIGHT WEEKLY RANK YTD RANK 01-Apr

YTD %

CHANGE

Automobiles & Parts SXAR 14 1.8% 1.6% 18 -5.4% 17 92.7 141.2 -36.7% 8.4 -17.8 0.0 -79.7

Banks SX7R 55 15.8% 1.8% 17 -2.7% 15 381.1 1,684.4 10.8% 5.1 60.7 -0.1 200.9

Basic Resources SXPR 30 5.5% 6.6% 1 8.7% 3 392.5 1,483.1 9.1% 25.8 2.5 9.8 30.7

Chemicals SX4R 21 3.9% 3.6% 3 -2.6% 14 109.6 180.4 -19.8% 0.4 -6.9 -6.2 -34.5

Construction & Materials SXOR 28 2.8% 2.7% 14 -3.4% 16 56.4 142.9 -24.8% 0.5 0.0 0.0 -32.3

Financial Services SXFR 32 1.4% 1.9% 16 -1.5% 12 5.7 106.3 33.8% 0.2 1.4 0.0 27.6

Food & Beverage SX3R 25 7.1% 3.5% 7 3.0% 7 198.8 416.3 -20.2% 2.6 -16.7 -1.5 -114.7

Health Care SXDR 34 9.6% 1.2% 19 -0.1% 10 321.9 928.1 -3.6% 4.3 -11.3 0.0 -36.8

Industrial Goods & Services SXNR 92 8.5% 2.9% 11 7.0% 4 385.3 464.5 18.2% 1.7 4.6 0.0 39.4

Insurance SXIR 34 5.6% 3.5% 6 1.8% 9 183.9 717.7 9.6% 4.0 -20.0 -7.3 48.1

Media SXMR 27 2.1% 3.6% 4 3.0% 8 92.8 453.4 301.2% 0.5 20.8 -1.0 311.6

Oil & Gas SXER 39 10.0% 3.2% 9 -1.9% 13 468.3 1,079.7 3.4% 5.5 6.3 -6.0 69.3

Personal & Household Goods SXQR 28 4.9% 2.1% 15 6.7% 5 140.5 248.2 50.4% 3.0 0.0 0.0 68.4

Real Estate SX86R 20 1.1% 4.1% 2 -0.6% 11 7.2 75.7 -6.9% 0.1 0.5 0.5 -5.0

Retail SXRR 24 3.4% 2.8% 13 3.0% 6 139.2 137.6 -23.0% 0.5 0.0 3.2 -45.6

Technology SX8R 26 3.3% 3.3% 8 12.3% 1 198.0 277.5 42.9% 2.2 8.7 1.8 55.9

Telecommunications SXKR 20 6.3% 2.9% 12 -5.7% 18 296.8 538.3 -38.6% 3.5 9.0 -0.8 -274.6

Travel & Leisure SXTR 22 1.3% 3.0% 10 10.9% 2 77.4 94.3 6.9% 0.8 0.0 0.0 -3.8

Utilities SX6R 30 5.8% 3.5% 5 -6.6% 19 343.7 738.1 3.0% 6.4 5.0 2.2 79.5

Total 601 100.0% 2.9% 0.7% 3,891.8 9,907.8 3.3% 75.5 46.8 -5.5 304.4

SECTOR TICKER

STOXX 600ETF

5-DAY

ADV

(US$ Mn)

YTD ETF NET FLOWS

(US$ Mn)

US$ TOTAL RETURN PERFORMANCE

WEEKLY ETF NET FLOWS

(US$ Mn)

MTD ETF NET FLOWS

(US$ Mn)

ETF AUM (US$ Mn)FUTURES

OPEN

INTEREST

(US$ Mn)


Canada ETF asset growth


0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Assets (US$ Bn)

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

# ETFs

ETF Assets $0.4 $4.0 $3.1 $3.4 $5.5 $7.4 $10.6 $13.0 $18.0 $15.7 $28.5 $32.8

# ETFs 1 3 14 15 16 16 20 26 46 77 109 132

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Mar-10


ETF providers in CanadaRanked by AUM as at end March 2010


PROVIDER # ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % Total # Planned # ETFs % ETFs

AUM

(US$ BN) % AUM

% Market

Share

iShares 36 $26.3 80.2% 0 6 20.0% $3.8 16.7% 1.2%

Claymore Securities 26 $3.8 11.6% 3 1 4.0% $0.5 16.2% 0.1%

BetaPro Management 48 $2.2 6.7% 3 7 17.1% -$0.4 -14.4% -2.3%

BMO Asset Management 22 $0.5 1.5% 0 9 100.0% $0.3 100.0% 1.0%

Total 132 $32.8 100.0% 6 23 21.1% $4.3 14.9%

Mar-10 YTD Change


• EONIA, SONIA

• Fed funds

CASH

ETF/ETP tool box

• Global

• Capitalisation (large, mid, small…)

• Sectors

• Broad markets

• Emerging markets

• Countries

• Inverse/leveraged

• Styles

– Active

– Dividend

– Fundamental

– Infrastructure

– Real estate

– Shariah

– Thematic

– Private equity

– Value

– Growth

EQUITY

• Government

• Corporate

• Credit

• Inflation

• High yield

• Mortgage backed

• Emerging markets

FIXED INCOME

2,131 ETFs with 4,133 ETF listings 718 other ETPs* with 1,025 ETP listings

Total: 2,849 products with 5,158 listings

*Other Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) include Holding Company Depository Receipts (HOLDRs), Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs),Exchange Traded Currency products, and Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs). Data as at end March 2010.

Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock.

• Hedge funds

• Carbon

• Volatility

ALTERNATIVES

• Developed currencies

• Emerging market currencies

• Inverse/leveraged

• Strategy (carry, momentum…)

CURRENCY

• Broad (S&P, GSCI, DJUBS, RICI, CRB…)

• Sub-indices (energy, livestock, precious metals, industrial metals, agriculture…)

• Individual commodities• Based on physically held

assets (gold, silver, platinum, palladium…)

• Based on futures• Based on forwards• Inverse/leveraged

COMMODITIES


How can ETFs be used?

• Interim beta:Maintain exposure to given market while searching for specific market opportunity

• Cash management:Invest cash rapidly and cost effectively to gain desired market exposures

• Derivatives alternative:Broad opportunity set of Delta 1 exposures with single line cash based settlement

• Exposure management:Shift portfolio emphasis by adjusting exposures (e.g. duration, credit)

• Thematic:Implement thematic exposures (e.g. dividends, alternatives)

Tactical

• Market exposure:Implement wide variety of investment strategies using a broad range of market exposures

• Directional views:Establish broad directional market position, use long & short trades to implement market view(s)

• Core satellite:Achieve strategic focus

• Rebalancing:Adjust drift in a portfolio’s asset allocation or style

• Completion:Add uncorrelated instruments and/or asset classes to strategy

Strategic


Why use ETFs?

• ETF units and underlying assets can be lent out to potentially offset holding costsSecurities lending

• ETFs offer a cost-effective route to diversified market exposure

• The average total expense ratio (TER) for equity ETFs in the US is 34 bps versus 93 bps (per annum) for the average equity index tracking fund and 146 bps (per annum) for the average active equity fund1

Cost effectiveness

• ETFs are listed on exchanges and can be traded at any time the market is open

• Pricing is continuous throughout the day Flexibility

• ETFs provide immediate exposure to a basket or group of securities for instant diversification

• Broad range of asset classes including equities, bonds, commodities, investment themes etc

Diversification

• ETFs offer two sources of liquidity

– Traditional liquidity measured by secondary market trading volume

– The liquidity of the underlying assets via the creation and redemption process

Liquidity

Investors can generally see the ETF composition at any given timeTransparency

1. Source: Morningstar (March 2010)


Growth in institutional users of ETFs

Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Thomson Reuters.

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

Number of Inst i tut ions

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

Number of Inst i tut ions

Other 0 0 1 2 5 11 10 10 10 30 15 15

Latin America 0 0 0 4 5 8 7 19 40 36 57 68

Asia Pacific 1 1 4 11 23 19 23 35 38 51 60 79

Canada 3 7 24 32 55 68 62 58 73 77 95 101

Europe 16 29 60 152 233 302 315 351 430 461 608 618

United States 145 241 342 561 782 889 1,010 1,154 1,333 1,559 1,781 2,045

Total 165 278 431 762 1,103 1,297 1,427 1,627 1,924 2,214 2,616 2,926

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008


Global institutions reported assetsas at end December 2008


Firm Reported Assets

Number of

Institutions

Reported

Assets

(US$ Mn)

Number of

Institutions

Reported

ETF Assets

(US$ Mn)

Number of

Institutions

Reported

ETF Assets

(US$ Mn)

>50 Billion 39 5,404,681 28 68,250 71.8% 1.3%

20-50 Billion 113 3,505,831 84 69,810 74.3% 2.0%

10-20 Billion 125 1,763,371 71 35,571 56.8% 2.0%5-10 Billion 205 1,481,979 98 15,356 47.8% 1.0%

1-5 Billion 1,216 2,638,240 428 41,249 35.2% 1.6%

500-1000 Million 864 610,428 246 14,123 28.5% 2.3%

250-500 Million 1,196 421,369 323 13,359 27.0% 3.2%

100-250 Million 2,141 345,296 535 11,739 25.0% 3.4%

<100 Million 31,542 303,393 686 4,710 2.2% 1.6%

Total 37,441 16,474,589 2,499 274,167 6.7% 1.7%

Firm Type

Number of

Institutions

Reported

Assets

(US$ Mn)

Number of

Institutions

Reported

ETF Assets

(US$ Mn)

Number of

Institutions

Reported

ETF Assets

(US$ Mn)

Investment Managers 7,061 11,817,584 2,443 176,880 34.6% 1.5%

Bank and Trust 493 419,345 158 15,959 32.0% 3.8%

Endowment Fund 17 11,477 8 1,811 47.1% 15.8%Finance Company 2 6 - - 0.0% 0.0%

Foundation 44 11,043 2 4 4.5% 0.0%

Hedge Fund 1,030 349,620 356 14,194 34.6% 4.1%

Insurance Company 136 160,902 16 1,670 11.8% 1.0%

Investment Advisor 4,462 10,209,252 1,857 134,501 41.6% 1.3%

Pension Fund 226 553,665 38 8,692 16.8% 1.6%Private Equity 331 41,858 7 21 2.1% 0.0%

Sovereign Wealth Fund 15 45,210 1 28 6.7% 0.1%

Venture Capital 305 15,206 - - 0.0% 0.0%

Brokerage Firms 143 338,226 45 86,869 31.5% 25.7%

Strategic Entities 30,237 4,318,779 11 10,418 0.0% 0.2%

Holding Company 501 254,762 5 3,210 1.0% 1.3%

Government Agency 97 640,813 - - 0.0% 0.0%Corporation 29,639 3,423,204 6 7,207 0.0% 0.2%

Total 37,441 16,474,589 2,499 274,167 6.7% 1.7%

% Of ETF Users

% Of ETF UsersReported ETF UsersAll Reporting Firms

All Reporting Firms Reported ETF Users


Types of institutional users of ETFs


Type of Institution 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Investment Advisor 109 200 319 549 802 923 1,023 1,167 1,380 1,564 1,946 2,152

Hedge Fund 9 20 30 73 114 144 152 180 209 285 340 438

Bank and Trust 14 19 30 67 92 109 120 139 161 174 189 193

Pension Fund 5 8 9 15 22 28 28 33 45 36 45 48

Brokerage Firm 14 11 15 15 16 25 28 31 37 40 45 48

Insurance Company 13 19 27 39 50 60 65 66 74 80 23 17

Endowment Fund 1 1 1 3 3 3 5 5 7 8 9 9

Private Equity 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 9

Holding Company 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 4 3 5

Corporation 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 16 5 4

Foundation 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 3 3 2

Sovereign Wealth Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Venture Capital 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 1 0

Grand Total 165 278 431 762 1,103 1,297 1,427 1,627 1,924 2,214 2,616 2,926


Growth in institutional users of ETFs


Country 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

United States 145 241 342 561 782 889 1,010 1,154 1,333 1,559 1,781 2,045

United Kingdom 9 12 15 25 37 55 61 55 79 87 112 120

Canada 3 7 24 32 55 68 62 58 73 77 95 101

Switzerland 0 3 7 19 26 35 31 48 62 62 92 94

Spain 1 2 8 32 47 60 62 61 70 76 76 76

Germany 1 1 1 6 14 19 21 29 35 43 60 70

France 0 2 10 24 29 32 30 36 47 42 56 59

Luxembourg 0 1 4 10 10 13 14 16 20 19 32 33

Italy 4 6 7 14 20 26 26 25 24 23 41 30

Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 11 19 24

Sweden 0 0 2 7 12 15 17 16 17 19 20 22

Austria 0 0 0 3 9 11 11 7 8 12 22 21

Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 18 7 20 21

Hong Kong 0 0 1 4 11 10 10 7 12 12 19 19

Taiwan 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 14 12 12 10 19

Chile 0 0 0 4 5 6 6 12 15 18 18 18

Liechtenstein 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 10 14 16

Singapore 0 0 2 4 6 5 5 9 7 10 13 16

Portugal 0 0 0 2 3 3 5 7 13 16 16 14

Belgium 1 1 4 6 9 9 11 12 13 13 16 12

Greece 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 9 9 9 7 11

Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 13 10 11 9

Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 7 8

Japan 1 1 1 3 6 4 3 4 5 8 9 7

Norway 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 4 7 7

Malaysia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7

South Africa 0 0 0 0 3 7 7 5 4 20 7 6

Finland 0 0 0 1 3 4 3 3 3 3 7 6

Denmark 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 2 1 4 5 5

Ireland 0 1 2 2 6 6 7 8 5 3 5 5

Bermuda 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 3 3 6 4 5

Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

Iceland 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3

India 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Czech Republic 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 2 3 2

Poland 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2

Virgin Islands (US) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 2

Cayman Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1

Hungary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

Bahamas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

Peru 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1

Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Slovenia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Barbados 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0


ETF portfolios

Sample portfolios are for illustrative purposes only and should not be construed as a recommendation to purchase or sell, or an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.Source: BlackRock.


• ETFs in the core:

– A broad market index

– Exposure to diversified baskets of securities

– Optimised core: sector, style or country indices

• ETFs in the satellite:

– Concentrated, focused ETFs

– Sector and style

– Individual countries and regions

– Alternative asset class

Core-Satellite: ETFs can be used in the core portfolio, as well as in the satellite


*A fund may price a security using a different pricing source than used by the Index Provider itself.Source: Fixed Income Index Guide, BlackRock.

• Understanding index methodology is the key to selecting and using ETFs

• Investors must understand the differences in pricing sources*, frequency of pricing updates and what prices are being captured

– Where (one bank or consortium..)

– When (intraday, daily, weekly..)

– What (bid, mid, dirty…)

Fixed Income Index Guide


Commodity index comparisonReuters Jefferies

CRB IndexS&PGSCI

Dow Jones UBSCommodity Index

Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI)

Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, S&P, Dow Jones, Lyxor, RICI Handbook 2009.

Energy

Livestock

Precious M etals

Industrial M etals

Agriculture

Energy

Livestock

Precious M etals

Industrial M etals

Agriculture

Energy

Livestock

Precious M etals

Industrial M etals

Agriculture

Energy

Livestock

Precious M etals

Industrial M etals

Agriculture

Commodity Measure S&P GSCI

DJ-UBS

Commodity

Index

Reuters

Jefferies CRB

Rogers

International

Commodity

Index (RICI)

Energy 65.29% 33.00% 39.00% 44.00%

WTI Crude Oil $/barrel 34.77% 13.75% 23.00% 21.00%

Brent Crude Oil $/barrel 12.11% - - 14.00%

RBOB Gasoline $cents/gallon 4.69% 3.71% 5.00% 3.00%

Heating Oil $cents/gallon 3.88% 3.65% 5.00% 1.80%

Gasoil $/metric ton 4.31% - - 1.20%

Natural Gas $/mmBtu 5.53% 11.89% 6.00% 3.00%

Livestock 6.37% 6.68% 7.00% 3.00%

Live Cattle $cents/pound 3.45% 4.29% 6.00% 2.00%

Feeder Cattle $cents/pound 0.66% - - -

Lean Hogs $cents/pound 2.26% 2.40% 1.00% 1.00%

Precious Metals 4.00% 10.75% 7.00% 7.10%

Gold $/troy oz 3.61% 7.86% 6.00% 3.00%

Silver $/troy oz 0.39% 2.89% 1.00% 2.00%

Palladium $/troy oz - - - 0.30%

Platinum $/troy oz - - - 1.80%

Industrial Metals 6.67% 20.33% 13.00% 14.00%

Aluminium $/metric ton 2.32% 7.00% 6.00% 4.00%

Copper $/metric ton 2.78% 7.31% 6.00% 4.00%

Lead $/metric ton 0.42% - - 2.00%

Nickel $/metric ton 0.57% 2.88% 1.00% 1.00%

Tin $/metric ton - - - 1.00%

Zinc $/metric ton 0.58% 3.14% - 2.00%

Commodity Measure S&P GSCI

DJ-UBS

Commodity

Index

Reuters

Jefferies CRB

Rogers

International

Commodity

Index (RICI)

Agriculture 17.65% 29.23% 34.00% 31.90%

Wheat $cents/bushels 4.54% 4.80% 1.00% 7.00%

Kansas Wheat $cents/bushels 1.00% - - -

Corn $cents/bushels 4.85% 5.72% 6.00% 4.75%

Soybeans $cents/bushels 3.00% 7.60% 6.00% 3.35%

Soybean Oil $cents/pound - 2.88% - 2.17%

Soybean Meal $/short ton - - - 0.75%

Cotton $cents/pound 0.96% 2.27% 5.00% 4.20%

Sugar $cents/pound 2.02% 2.99% 5.00% 2.00%

Coffee $cents/pound 0.87% 2.97% 5.00% 2.00%

Cocoa $/metric ton 0.41% - 5.00% 1.00%

Orange Juice $cents/pound - - 1.00% 0.66%

Rubber JPY/kilogram - - - 1.00%

Lumber $/1k board fleet - - - 1.00%

Canola CAD/metric ton - - - 0.67%

Rice $/cwt - - - 0.50%

Oats $cents/bushels - - - 0.50%

Azuki Beans JPY/bag - - - 0.15%

Barley CAD/metric ton - - - 0.10%

Greasy Wool AUD/kilogram - - - 0.10%

TOTAL 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

Data as of: Mar-09 Jan-09 Jan-09 Feb-09


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Overview of China’s Fund Industry

By the end of 2009

• Total AUM of RMB 2676.08 billion (USD 393.54 billion)

• 2453.51 billion outstanding units

Sources: TX Info

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By the end of 2009, there are 621 funds, including

• 590 open-end funds and 31 closed-end funds

• 612 investing in domestic market and 9 investing in global market

• 569 active managed funds and 52 passive managed funds, including 9 ETFs

Different Types of Funds (by AUM)

Sources: TX Info

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By the end of 2009, there are

• 60 fund management companies

• 27 are state-owned, and 33 are joint-ventures

Fund Management Companies

Sources: TX Info

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Top Ten Asset Management Companies in China

By Mutual Fund AUM as of December 31, 2009

Source: China Galaxy Fund Research Center.

Ranking Fund Companies Num of FundsFund AUM

(Billion RMB)Market Share

1 ChinaAMC 25 265.76 9.93%

2 E-Fund 19 159.52 5.96%

3 Harvest 19 156.42 5.85%

4 Bosera 18 150.46 5.62%

5 Southern 21 122.27 4.57%

6 GF 12 110.47 4.13%

7 Dacheng 16 106.05 3.96%

8 Hua An 16 93.02 3.48%

9 BoCom Schroders 11 92.39 3.45%

10 Yinhua 13 74.71 2.79%

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Index Funds in China

• China has 52 index funds including 9 ETFs, 3 ETF-link funds, 3 closed-end index funds and 37 open-end index funds.

• By the end of 2009, the total AUM of all index funds sums to RMB 358.78 billion (USD 52.76 billion).

Index Funds vs. Active Funds (by AUM)

Sources: TX Info

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Index Funds in China

• In 2009, the total AUM of index funds increased RMB 250 billion (USD 36.76 billion), the fasted growth in China’s fund history.

• Year 2009 witnessed 29 new launches of index funds, including 4 ETFs, 3 ETF-link funds as well as 22 open-end index funds.

Sources: TX Info

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ETFs in China

As of December 31, 2009, total outstanding units of ETFs are 36.34 billion Units, and the total AUM of all ETFs sums to RMB 66.19 billion (USD 9.73 billion).

ETFInception

DateAUM (RMB

billion)Outstanding Units

(billion)Manager

1 China 50 ETF 20041230 25.48 9.98 ChinaAMC

2 E Fund Shenzhen 100 ETF 20060324 12.15 2.87 E Fund

3 Hua An SSE 180 ETF 20060413 4.07 5.28 Hua An

4 China SME ETF 20060608 3.76 1.43 ChinaAMC

5 AIG-Huatai SSE Dividend ETF 20061117 5.40 1.92 AIG-Huatai

6 SSE Central SOEs Index ETF 20090826 2.73 1.58 ICBC-Credit Swiss

7SSE 180 Corporate Governance ETF

20090925 7.07 7.74 BoComm Schroders

8 SZSE Component ETF 20091204 4.13 4.13 Southern

9 SSE Mega-Cap ETF 20091229 1.41 1.41 Bosera

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ChinaAMC ETFs in 2009

China 50 ETF China SME ETF

Difference of Return* -0.82% -2.50%

Annualized Tracking Error 1.09% 1.93%

Net Subscription (million units) -955 -116

Average Premium/Discount 0.40% 0.18%

Average Daily Turnover 9.18% 6.66%

*: Not considering dividend distribution.

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QFII Investments in ETFs

The “Interim Measures on Administration of Domestic Securities

Investment by Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII)”

implemented in November 2002.

In May 2003, UBS AG and Nomura Securities became the first batch of QFIIs and UBS started trading in A share market in July 2003.

By the end of 2009, 94 companies obtained QFII licenses, and thetotal quota attained was USD 16.67 billion.

China 50 ETF, the first ETF launched in mainland China in 2004, attracted our first batch of more than twenty QFII investors.

By the end of March 2010, the total AUM of QFII investments in ChinaAMC’s ETFs and other funds is approximately USD 83.8 million.

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QDIIs’ Investment in ETFs

The “Interim Measures on Administration of Overseas Securities

Investment by Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors (QDII)”

implemented in July, 2007.

Currently, 89 domestic companies, including 22 banks, 23 insurance

companies, 3 trust companies, 32 fund management companies and

9 securities companies, obtained QDII licenses, and the total quota

attained so far is USD 65.03 billion.

There are 12 QDII funds in the market, total AUM of RMB 74.84

billion (USD 11 billion).

ChinaAMC launched one of the first QDII funds - ChinaAMC Global

Select Fund. By the end of 2009, the total AUM of the fund was RMB

20.27 billion (USD 2.98 billion), the largest QDII fund in China, and

4.84% of the asset was invested in ETFs.

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It’s very possible to launch QDII ETFs in near future

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