The RICI® ENHANCED^SM COMMODITY INDEX ZERO CERT™ provides investors cost-efficient investment exposure to the soaring commodities sector by participating in the performance of a broad range of commodities including agricultural and energy products and metals.

Its underlying, the RICI® (Rogers International Commodity Index®) Enhanced^SM Index Excess Return, represents the value of a basket of 37 exchange traded physical commodities consumed in the global economy. It is one of the most diversified commodities index whose weightings attempt to balance consumption patterns worldwide (in developed and developing economies) and are potentially reassigned each year – if necessary.

INVESTOR BENEFITS

As emerging economies such as China and India continue on their rapid expansion, global demand for commodities ranging from oil to base metals to grains is growing, leading to record high prices for many of these products. The RICI® ENHANCED^SM COMMODITY INDEX ZERO CERT™ lets investors reap benefits from the global boom in the prices of commodities, which is entering its sixth year with no end in sight¹. The RICI® Enhanced^SM Index Excess Return is an improved version over other benchmark commodity indices where commodity futures are rolled over across the board on a monthly basis. In contrast, an individual rollover calendar is created for each commodity listed on the RICI® Enhanced^SM Index, based on all commodity futures contracts available on the relevant commodity with their specific maturity dates. These contracts are then filtered according to seasonality patterns or cycles. This method aims to increase the returns of the index over other benchmark commodity indices.


^{1 ft.com, View of the day: Commodity prices, Michael Lewis, January 2008}

INTERACTIVE CHART

* 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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Closed values for last 5 trading days
30 Aug 2010 3149	31 Aug 2010 3132	01 Sep 2010 3170	02 Sep 2010 3189	03 Sep 2010 3219
* Disclaimer Official publication of the RICI® Enhanced SM Index levels are carried out on the next business day around 8am London time.