OUR INDEX PROVIDERS
Claymore strives to bring you best-in-class index providers. The index providers
that Claymore uses create indices based on sophisticated quantitative
models with independent and academic research that drive the investment
strategies that Claymore’s ETFs track. We believe that a
strategy-driven quantitative process provides a disciplined investment
approach to help meet investment goals over various market cycles.
Auspice Capital Advisors Ltd acts as the investment advisor to the
Claymore Natural Gas ETF. Auspice is a Calgary based registered
Portfolio Manager / Investment Counsel. Auspice is focused on managing
commodity risk, providing trading expertise, and creating unique
structured products, funds, and indices. The team has 15 years trading
and risk management experience, including specific expertise in trading
and risk management of natural gas focused on the Canadian physical and
derivative market. Additional information can be found at www.auspicecapital.com.
MFC Global Investment Management® is the asset management division of
Manulife Financial. MFC Global Investment Management’s diversified
group of companies and affiliates provides comprehensive asset
management solutions for institutional investors, investment funds and
individuals in key markets around the world. This investment expertise
extends across a full range of asset classes including equity, fixed
income and alternative investments such as oil & gas, real estate,
timber, farmland, as well as asset allocation strategies. MFC Global
Investment Management has investment offices in the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, and throughout Asia.
Additional information can be found at www.mfcglobal.com.
Research Affiliates, LLC, was formed by Robert D. Arnott in 2002 to
engage in quantitative investment research designed to create
innovative investment products. As the company name suggests, these
products are primarily implemented and introduced to the market through
affiliations with other firms. Research Affiliates offers licensing,
sub-advisory services and pioneering investment product development.
The Fundamental Index® methodology was developed to address the
structural return drag created by traditional capitalization-based
indexing strategies, which systematically overweight overpriced
securities and underweight underpriced securities. Additional
information can be found at www.researchaffiliates.com.
Sabrient is an independent equity research firm that provides
quantitative research on nearly 6,000 stocks, indices and
exchange-traded funds. Sabrient’s proprietary methodologies employ
multi-factor modeling and filters that seek to identify stocks that
appear poised to outperform or underperform the market. Additional
information can be found at sabrient.com.
Standard & Poor’s Index Services, the world’s leading index
provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices
to meet an array of investor needs. Its family of indices includes the
S&P 500, an index with US $1.26 trillion invested and US $4.45
trillion benchmarked, and the S&P Global 1200, a composite index
comprised of seven regional and country headline indices. Additional
information can be found at standardandpoors.com/indices.
Sustainable Wealth Management, Ltd. is a Calgary, Alberta based firm
dedicated to developing structured indices/benchmarks for institutional
investors. The firm specializes in the North American energy sector
with indices based on unconventional natural gas, North American energy
infrastructure and unconventional oil such as Canada’s oil sands. The
firm’s index construction methodology is based exclusively on
quantitative factors. Additional information can be found at swmindex.com.
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY”) is the leading depositary bank,
managing more sponsored/depositary receipt programs than all other
depositary banks combined. BNY currently issues depositary receipts for
more than 1,200 programs representing 60 countries, and acts as
depositary for 64% of all sponsored depositary receipt programs.
Additional information can be found at adrbny.com.
The DEX Fixed Income Indices™ (formerly the Scotia Capital Bond
Indices) are provided by PC-Bond, a business unit of TSX Inc. PC-Bond
has been in the business of providing the benchmark performance
standards for Canadian fixed income investments since 1947. The
flagship DEX Universe Bond Index (formerly the Scotia Capital Universe
Bond Index) is Canada’s leading fixed income index, used by an
estimated 95% of buy-side participants as a measure of performance of
marketable government and corporate bonds outstanding in the Canadian
market. The DEX 1-5 Year Laddered Government Bond Index™ is the most
recent addition to the family of DEX Fixed Income Indices™. For
additional information on PC-Bond, a business unit of TSX Inc., and the
family of DEX Fixed Income Indices™, please refer to www.pcbond.com or www.canadianbondindices.com.
Zacks Investment Research has more than 25 years of experience in providing institutional and individual investors with the analytical tools and financial information necessary to the success of their investment process. Today, Zacks receives daily electronic data feeds and printed research reports on over 10,000 companies from over 200 brokerage firms, produced by more than 3,500 analysts amounting to over 500,000 pages of brokerage research. In addition, Zacks records 25,000 earnings estimate revisions and changes in broker recommendations weekly. Additional information can be found at zacks.com.