The RBS GLOBAL FARMERS PR INDEX ZERO CERT™ offer investors cost efficient investment exposure to companies in the agriculture sector. The sector is currently benefiting from soaring food prices that stem from a confluence of structural supply (land shortages dues to urbanization, desertification, land erosion) and demand factors (increasing emerging market demand, increased bio-fuel production).

Its underlying, the RBS Global Farmers Price Return Index, is comprised of stocks from four subsectors including agrochemicals, trading and cultivation, agricultural equipment and crops. Selected stocks have a minimum market capitalization of EUR 200 million and an average daily trading liquidity.

INVESTOR BENEFITS

While the agricultural sector has seen cyclical booms in the last decades, experts believe that the current upcycle may be the cause of fundamental changes in demand and supply at work. As such, prices may be kept above historic equilibrium levels during the next 10 years¹.The RBS GLOBAL FARMERS INDEX ZERO CERT™ allows investors to participate in the performance of companies in the sector who stand to benefit from these developments.

^{1 OECD, OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2007-2016, 2007}

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* Last Updated on 03 Sep 2010 17:10 * Note: Statistical and chart data represent the product BID prices. The underlying prices shown are not real-time prices, i.e. they are delayed due to mandatory requirements of the data provider.

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