About Our Sponsors

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is the asset management business of State Street Corporation, one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors1, with a heritage dating back over two centuries. Backed by the strength and stability of the State Street organization, SSgA makes continual investments in our asset management and client service platform, resulting in a client-focused, solutions-driven orientation. Our investment culture is built on experience and skill that each of our more than 476 investment professionals and over 2300 employees around the world bring to every client relationship.

Standard & Poors

S&P Indices, the world’s leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index, and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal bonds. For more information, please visit .

BlackRock

BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. At June 30, 2011, BlackRock’s AUM was $3.659 trillion. BlackRock offers products that span the risk spectrum to meet clients’ needs, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. Products are offered in a variety of structures including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares^®(exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions^®. Headquartered in New York City, as of June 30, 2011, the firm has approximately 9,700 employees in 26 countries and a major presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and Africa. For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.blackrock.com

iShares

iShares is the global product leader in exchange traded funds with over 474 funds globally across equities, fixed income and commodities. The iShares Funds are bought and sold like common stocks on securities exchanges. The iShares Funds are attractive to many individual and institutional investors and financial intermediaries because of their relative low cost and trading flexibility. Investors can purchase and sell shares through any brokerage firm, financial advisor, or online broker, and hold the funds in any type of brokerage account. The iShares customer base consists of the institutional segment of pension plans and fund managers, as well as the retail segment of financial advisors and high net worth individuals. For details, please visit www.iShares.com

Hang Seng Indexes Company Ltd

Established in 1984, Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited (“Hang Seng Indexes”, formerly HSI Services Limited), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hang Seng Bank, is Hong Kong’s major index compiler covering Hong Kong and mainland China markets.

Hang Seng Indexes calculates and manages the Hang Seng Family of Indexes. Currently, the Hang Seng Family of Indexes comprises over 250 real-time and daily indexes that are compiled according to industry, geography or market capitalisation using different calculation methodologies, including the widely quoted Hang Seng Index and the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index.

All the real-time and daily index data are disseminated through information vendors such as Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. Index data are then further disseminated to different applications such as terminals, websites and display boards.

Hang Seng Indexes also issues product licences to fund managers and derivatives issuers who use indexes in the Hang Seng Family of Indexes to develop index funds, exchange-traded funds or derivatives.

Stoxx Ltd

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

STOXX Limited is committed to delivering its high-quality, reliable and trusted index offerings to its global client base.

The indices are licensed to more than 400 companies among the world’s largest financial products issuers, capital owners, and asset managers. They are used not only as underlings’ for financial products such as ETFs, futures and options, and structured products, but also for risk and performance measurement.
In addition, STOXX Ltd. is the marketing agent for the indices of Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Group AG, among them the DAX® and the SMI® indices.

ASX

ASX is a multi-asset class, vertically integrated exchange group, and one of the world’s top-10 listed exchange groups measured by market capitalisation.
ASX’s activities span primary and secondary market services, central counterparty risk transfer, and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets. It functions as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps educate retail investors.ASX’s diverse domestic and international customer base includes issuers of securities, investment and trading banks, fund managers, hedge funds, commodity trading advisers, brokers and proprietary traders, market data vendors and retail investors.
By providing its systems, processes and services reliably and fairly, ASX generates confidence in the markets that depend on its infrastructure. This is integral to ASX’s long-term commercial success.

Korea Exchange

The Korea Exchange(KRX) operates a centralized trading platform where the investors can access the KOSPI Market which is the main board, the KOSDAQ Market that is geared to serve the venture and growth industries and the Derivatives Market which has been raked the 1st in the world for consecutive years in terms of trading volume, thus providing one-stop service.

Korean ETF Market has been showing a dramatic growth within 10 years since the market opened in 2002. As of the end of July, 2011, the total number of ETFs listed on our bourse is 101 and the AUM, in aggregate, is around USD 8.5 Billion. ETFs currently traded in the KRX cover all 6 categories: domestic equities, foreign equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, and derivatives, thus satisfy various investors’ demand. Leveraged and Inverse ETFs which were the first ones in Asian region provide the bulk of investment opportunities to both institutional and individual investors.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.(TSE)

Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is the Exchange in the Asia-Pacific region with the largest number of primary listed ETP products. Since the first ETP was listed on the TSE market in 1995, TSE has constantly strived to diversify its product lineup to develop a more attractive market. As a result, the ETP market has grown rapidly from 13 at the end of 2007 to reach its current figure of 103 (as of June 2011). Our commitment to the ETP market is exhibited in our Medium-Term Management Plan where expanding the ETP market is included as one of the core strategies. TSE will strive to build upon this accolade and further develop the ETP market to improve its convenience for all investors. For more information, please visit: http://www.tse.or.jp/english/rules/etfs/index.html

Netik

Netik is a global provider to the securities industry of information management and distribution services and products with operations in North America, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Asia. As a growing and expanding company, Netik seeks to increase the sophistication and calibre of what it produces, as well as provide limitless services that bring together people, product, well-honed process and proven technology in the delivery of leading financial data management.
Netik’s products and services include Netik Global Securities Master, Netik GSM, a reference data managed service, Delta One Data, a comprehensive source of index and ETF data, Netik InterView a data warehouse for the storage of holistic financial data and information portal to visualize and report on your data and Netik infiPOINT to manage the presentation and delivery of complex information to business users.

Russell Indexes

The Russell Indexes are a comprehensive family of global equity indexes which allow investors to seamlessly track performance of distinct market segments worldwide. Created in 1984, the Russell Indexes are the most widely used benchmarks by institutional investors. Today $3.9 trillion in assets are benchmarked to them.

The success of the Russell Index family can be attributed to our innovative index design – including float- adjusted market capitalisation, reconstitution, multifactor style analysis, as well as objective and transparent rules.

In addition to the comprehensive Global and Frontier equity indexes, Russell Indexes has also recently launched a series of alternative weighted innovations effectively extending Russell’s global line-up beyond market capitalization weighted index construction. Our new product offerings include Equal Weight Index, Factor Index, Fundamental Index® and Shariah Index series that reflect key global market segments.

Whatever index you require there is a Russell Index that meets your needs.

For more about the Russell Indexes, call us or visit www.russell.com/indexes.

Americas: +1-877-503-6437
APAC: +65-6880-5003
EMEA: +44-0-20-7024-6600

HSBC

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the largest incorporated bank in Hong Kong, with about 70% of the adult population holding an account with HSBC. It is one of the territory’s three note-issuing banks, accounting for 67.7% of its banknotes and has been appointed Settlement Institution for the US dollar clearing system in Hong Kong, the first non-American bank in the world to win US dollar clearing business. It is the founding and a principal member of the HSBC Group which, with around 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories and assets of US$2,598 billion at 31 March 2011, is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide.

Global Banking and Markets has offices in more than 60 countries and territories. Managed as a global business, we offer our clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge.

Our clients are served by teams that bring together relationship managers and product specialists to develop financial solutions that meet individual client needs. To ensure that we build a comprehensive understanding of each client's financial requirements, we take a long-term relationship management approach.

Interactive Data

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data’s offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,400 employees in offices worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.interactivedata.com.