Emerging Global Advisors Launches EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF (Ticker: EMHD)

Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) today launched the EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF (Ticker: EMHD), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed for income-oriented investors. EMHD tracks an index that has a dividend yield of 8.8%1 (as of 7/31/2013) and screens for emerging market (EM) companies that have consistently generated high income for their shareholders.

“The rise of emerging market-based multinationals has greatly expanded the number of companies with the capacity to sustain high dividend payments,” said Marten Hoekstra, CEO of EGA. “EMHD applies our firm’s emerging market expertise to create a high income solution that can provide investors with a global approach to diversifying income streams.”

EMHD tracks the FTSE Equal Weighted Emerging All Cap ex Taiwan Diversified Dividend Yield 50 Index. EGA and FTSE collaborated to design an index that seeks to provide a higher dividend payout relative to other widely used EM dividend indices. The equally-weighted index measures the stock performance of the 50 highest-yielding, liquid EM equity securities in the FTSE Emerging All Cap ex Taiwan Universe, excluding the least capitalized dividend-paying companies. As a result, the index is designed to deliver a broad basket of securities across EM countries that are screened for high dividend yield and quality. The index also considers both dividend coverage and consistency. To ensure diversification, the number of stocks per industry and country is limited to 10. EGShares EM Dividend High Income ETF tracks this index and trades on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol EMHD. The ETF is passively managed and does not use options, swaps or other derivatives in its portfolio. The fund is designed to pay dividends monthly.

For more information on EMHD, please visit egshares.com/EMHD.

About Emerging Global Advisors (EGA)

Emerging Global Advisors (EGA), the asset manager to the EGShares ETF offering, provides investors and institutions with the tools they need to implement similar investment strategies in emerging markets as they do in developed markets. Through its advanced beta strategies, EGA helps investors and institutions achieve the income and total return exposures they want in emerging markets. For more information, please visit egshares.com.

1. Source of data: FTSE, July 31, 2013. An ETF will not yield as much as the index it tracks due to withholding taxes, trading and management expenses.

This Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history of its own.

Diversification does not assure a profit or protect against loss. One cannot directly invest in an index.

This Fund is new and therefore does not have a performance history of its own.

Dividend Yield is a financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. There is no guarantee that a company will pay dividends, and that dividend payments may cease at any time.

Emerging market investments do involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles, from economic or political instability in other nations or increased volatility and lower trading volume. This fund will concentrate its investments in issuers of one or more particular industries to the same extent that its underlying index is so concentrated and to the extent permitted by applicable regulatory guidance. Concentration risk results from maintaining exposure to issuers conducting business in a specific industry.

FTSE makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any claims contained herein.

Marten Hoekstra is a registered representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.

Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund before investing. To obtain a prospectus containing this and other important information, please call (888) 800-4EGS (4347) or visit www.egshares.com to view or download a prospectus online. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

Shares are not individually redeemable and owners of the shares may acquire those shares from the Funds and tender those shares for redemption to the Fund in Creation Units only, typically consisting of aggregations of 50,000 shares.

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