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ETF Providers in Canada

Here are the providers that list Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) for trading in Canada. Each has provided a short summary of their business below.

iShares® Funds are managed by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited, and are part of the world's most extensive family of exchange traded funds (ETFs). iShares is the largest ETF provider in the world, with more than 350 funds and over US$300 billion assets under management (AUM). iShares ranks as one of the fastest growing fund families and commands almost 50% of the worldwide ETF industry market share. In Canada, iShares is the leading ETF provider with roughly C$22billion AUM. iShares was founded in 1999, and today, has the world's largest asset manager behind them. iShares are now trading in 15 countries.

Claymore Investments, Inc. (“Claymore”) is a Canadian leader in bringing intelligent, low cost exchange-traded funds in Canada through its family of 31 ETFs and 2 closed-end funds across broad asset classes including core equity, global sectors, fixed income and commodities with approximately $6.5 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2011. Claymore Investments, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guggenheim Funds Services Group, Inc., a financial services and asset management company based in the Chicago, Illinois area and an indirect subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, (“Guggenheim”) a global, diversified financial services firm with more than $100 billion in assets under supervision. Guggenheim, through its affiliates, provides investment management, investment advisory, insurance, investment banking, and capital markets services. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and New York with a global network of offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc. (“Horizons ETFs”) is an innovative financial services company offering the Horizons ETFs family of exchange traded funds. The Horizons ETFs family includes a broadly diversified range of investment tools with solutions for investors of all experience levels to meet their investment objectives in a variety of market conditions. With approximately $3 billion in assets under management and more than 70 listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Horizons ETFs family makes up the largest selection of ETFs in Canada. Horizons ETFs is a member of the Jovian Capital Corporation (TSX: JOV) group of companies.

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BMO Exchange Traded Funds is a diversified family of ETFs that includes a broad range of domestic and global investment solutions, which cover a full array of asset classes, sectors and regions. With more than 100 years of combined experience in managing institutional indexing and retail ETF strategies, BMO's team of ETF experts scours the global marketplace for opportunities to strategically design and build a broad range of ETFs - from core broad index to precise sector and regional offerings - to meet a variety of investment needs. BMO ETFs are managed and administered by BMO Asset Management Inc., a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Bank of Montreal.

Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $413 billion as of April 30, 2011, and more than 45,000 employees as of July 6, 2011, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

Invesco PowerShares is Leading the Intelligent ETF Revolution™ through its family of more than 120 ETFs across the globe. Invesco PowerShares is anchored on a vision of delivering investment performance through the benefit-rich ETF structure.

Invesco PowerShares focuses on offering value-added and innovative ETFs, starting with the inception of its first two offerings in May 2003. Since then, Invesco PowerShares has experienced substantial growth, with sponsored assets of over US$61 billion as at March 31, 2011. Since its integration with Invesco Ltd. in 2006 Invesco PowerShares has built a global presence: PowerShares ETFs are now owned in over 130 countries and are listed on the major U.S. stock exchanges, as well as many other prominent exchanges throughout Europe, Asia and now Canada.

Since establishing the first index mutual fund for individual investors in 1976, The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard) has become one of the world's largest investment management companies. Today our clients entrust us with more than $1.7 trillion in assets under management divided about equally between active and passive portfolios. Our growing asset base also includes more than $159 billion in exchange-traded funds.

Over the past three decades, Vanguard has expanded its offerings to partner with financial advisors and institutional investors in key global markets within Europe/United Kingdom, Asia and Australia.

We attribute our growth to years of meeting our clients' needs through our unique value proposition of low costs, client alignment, and providing enduring investment solutions.
All figures as of September 30, 2011 and exclude Canada-domiciled ETFs.

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs 23,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. For further information about Barclays Capital, please visit our website at www.barcap.com.

XTF Capital’s eXchange Traded Funds (“XTFs”) offer leading edge investment strategies that deliver superior risk adjusted returns on a low cost basis. Following rigorous testing and continuous analysis of the global exchange traded fund landscape, new XTFs are launched in order to provide investors with access to proven strategies and asset classes that are under-represented in the Canadian marketplace. We believe that exchange traded funds are an essential tool in the construction of modern portfolios along with individual stocks and bonds, mutual funds and closed-end funds.

In launching XTF Capital and its family of XTFs, First Asset is continuing its long history of providing better risk adjusted solutions to Canadian investors. First Asset is a well-respected investment management company which offers a unique variety of innovative, tax-efficient investment solutions including TSX-listed funds and mutual funds. First Asset, founded in 1996, is one of the largest managers of TSX-listed investment funds in Canada with over $2.5 billion under management and administration.

RBC ETFs are an innovative suite of complementary and flexible fixed income ETFs managed by RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM), the asset management division of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). RBC GAM is a provider of global investment management services and solutions to individual, high net worth and institutional investors through exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, pooled funds, hedge funds, segregated accounts and specialty investment strategies. RBC GAM group of companies manage more than $250 billion in assets and have approximately 1,000 employees located across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.