OUR INDEX PROVIDERS

Guggenheim Funds strives to bring you best-in-class index providers. The index providers that Guggenheim Funds uses create indices based on sophisticated quantitative models with independent and academic research that drive the investment strategies that Guggenheim Funds' ETFs track. We believe that a strategy-driven quantitative process provides a disciplined investment approach to help meet investment goals over various market cycles.

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Accretive Asset Management LLC

Accretive Asset Management LLC

Accretive Asset Management LLC creates products that help financial advisors better serve their clients. Through creative thinking informed by a strategic understanding of the marketplace, Accretive devises innovative solutions to problems faced by financial advisors and investors. BulletShares® Indices provide maturity targeted exposure to fixed income markets and are engineered to serve as the basis for products that combine the best attributes of investing in bonds and bond funds. For more information, see www.BulletShares.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

AlphaShares, LLC

AlphaShares, LLC

AlphaShares, LLC is an investment management firm dedicated to providing investors with strategies and products that allow them to participate in China’s economic boom. The Chief Investment Officer of AlphaShares, LLC is well known Princeton University economist and author, Dr. Burton G. Malkiel. Additional information can be found at alphashares.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

Archipelago Holdings, Inc.

Archipelago Holdings, Inc. (“Arca”) is an affiliate of the NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYX). NYX is the world’s leading, most liquid and diverse exchange group. It offers a broad and growing array of financial products and services in cash equities, futures, options, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions, all designed to meet the evolving needs of issuers, investors and financial institutions. Spanning multiple asset classes and six countries, NYX’s exchanges include the New York Stock Exchange, Liffe, Euronext and NYSE Arca. With approximately 8,500 listed issues, more than any other exchange group, trading on NYX’s equity markets represents more than one-third of the world’s cash equities volume. NYX also manages the leading European derivatives exchange by value of trading. NYX is part of the S&P 500 Index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 Index. For more information, please visit nyx.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

BNY Mellon

The Bank of New York Mellon

BNY Mellon is the leading depositary bank, managing more sponsored depositary receipt programs than all other depositary banks combined. BNY Mellon acts as depositary for over 1,370 sponsored programs from 63 countries, nearly 62% global market share. Additional information can be found at adrbny.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Beacon Indexes

Beacon Indexes

Beacon Indexes (BI), a division of Beacon Trust Company, creates and publishes custom indices using a combination of qualitative research and quantitative methods. BI designs custom indices to quantitatively measure specific market segments. The indices are used for custom institutional benchmarks and investment product design. Additional information can be found at beaconindexes.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Dow Jones Indexes

Dow Jones Indexes 

Dow Jones Indexes is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of a joint venture company owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

MAC Indexing, LLC

MAC Indexing, LLC specializes in clean energy equity research and index development. MAC Indexing created and maintains the MAC Global Solar Energy Index (ticker SUNIDX), which was the first solar energy index in the exchange-traded fund industry. Further information on MAC Indexing and the MAC Solar Index is available at MACSolarIndex.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Ocean Tomo, LLC

Ocean Tomo, LLC

Ocean Tomo, LLC is a fully-integrated intellectual capital merchant banc that specializes in understanding and leveraging intellectual property assets. The company provides advice in intellectual property-related expert services, valuation, investments, risk management and corporate finance. Additional information can be found at oceantomo.com/indexes.html.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Raymond James Research Services, LLC

Raymond James Research Services, LLC

Raymond James Research Services, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc., a Florida-based holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in various financial services businesses including brokerage, trading, investment banking, asset management and financial planning services. The Equity Research Department at Raymond James & Associates currently includes more than 100 research analysts and publishes research on more than 1,000 companies. Their work is complemented by technical and economic analysts, and is supported by nearly 40 research associates and other support staff. For more information, visit rjcapitalmarkets.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Sabrient Systems, LLC

Sabrient Systems, LLC

Sabrient Systems, LLC 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.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Standard & Poor’s Investment Advisory Services LLC

Standard & Poor's Investment Advisory Services, LLC

In 1995, Standard & Poor’s Investment Advisory Services LLC was established as a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. for the express purpose of providing investment advice to the financial community. SPIAS’s clients have included brokerage firms, mutual funds, insurance companies, retirement plans, financial planners and other financial services professionals.

S&P, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is an affiliate of SPIAS and a foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. An important part of the world’s financial infrastructure, S&P has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.

"S&P" and "Standard & Poor's" are registered trademarks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Guggenheim Funds Distributors, Inc. ("Guggenheim Funds"). Investments in Guggenheim Funds products are not endorsed, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor's and its affiliates, and Standard & Poor's and its affiliates make no representation regarding the advisability of investing in Guggenheim Funds products. Additional information can be found at standardandpoors.com.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Sustainable Wealth Management, Ltd.

Sustainable Wealth Management, Ltd.

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.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Wilshire Associates

Wilshire Associates

Wilshire Associates, a leading global independent investment consulting and services firm, provides consulting services, analytics solutions and customized investment products to plan sponsors, investment managers and financial intermediaries. Its business units include Wilshire Analytics, which in turn includes the Wilshire Indexes, Wilshire Consulting, Wilshire Funds Management and Wilshire Private Markets. With ten offices on four continents, Wilshire Associates and its affiliates are dedicated to providing clients with the highest quality counsel, solutions and services.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

Zacks Investment Research, Inc. 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.

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Exchange-Traded Funds

 

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