Fund Description: ETFS Diversified-Factor U.S. Large Cap Index Fund is an exchange-traded index fund or Index ETF which is a separate investment portfolio of the ETFS Trust, an open-end investment management company. INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE: The ETFS Diversified-Factor U.S. Large Cap Index Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Scientific Beta United States Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy Equal Weight Index. INDEX DESCRIPTION: The Scientific Beta United States Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy Equal Weight Index is generally comprised of approximately 500 or less U.S. listed common stocks selected based on a proprietary methodology developed by EDHEC Risk Institute Asia Ltd., the Index Provider. The Index Provider selects and weights stocks, according to its Index methodology, from a pre-screening universe generally composed of the 500 largest and most liquid stocks traded principally on a stock exchange in and incorporated or domiciled (i.e., maintain a principal place of business) in the United States. The Index is composed of four sub-indices, each of which represents a specific beta exposure (or factor tilt): (i) high valuation, (ii) high momentum, (iii) low volatility, and (iv) size. Each sub-index is comprised of the top 50% of companies from the pre-screening universe that best represent that sub-index’s specific beta exposure, except that the size sub-index is comprised of the bottom 50% of companies in the pre-screening universe according to free-float market capitalization. Each sub-index then applies a combination of five equally weighted diversification-based weighting strategies: Maximum Deconcentration, Maximum Decorrelation, Efficient Minimum Volatility, Efficient Maximum Sharpe Ratio, and Diversified Risk Weighted. Each Diversified Factor Index is designed to maximize diversification within each sub-index and limit the risks inherent with applying only one of the five diversification strategies. Each sub-index is given an equal importance or weight in the Index. The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced quarterly. FUND STRATEGY: Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets will be invested in the component securities of the Index. The Fund may invest the remainder of its assets in cash and cash equivalents, such as repurchase agreements or money market instruments, or other instruments that the sub-adviser believes will help the Fund track the Index. The Fund employs a replication strategy, a passive indexing strategy, that involves investing in all the securities of the Index in approximately the same proportion as the Index. However, the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the Index when a replication strategy may be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of all the equity securities in the Index. In general, if the Fund is performing as designed, the return of the Index will dictate the return for the Fund. The Fund pursues its investment objective regardless of the market conditions and does not take defensive positions. The Fund seeks to be fully invested at all times. FUND MANAGEMENT: ETF Securities Advisors LLC serves as the investment adviser to the Fund. Index Management Solutions, LLC serves as the sub-adviser to the Fund.