Nasdaq and KBW Announce Strategic Index Partnership - Seite 2

As a result of the KBW Nasdaq partnership, Nasdaq will expand its relationship with Invesco PowerShares, a leading exchange-traded fund provider, and now bring the total number of PowerShares ETFs tracking a Nasdaq index to 44, with over $52 billion in assets under management.

"The KBW indexes are an extremely valuable brand, and we are excited about the new energy Nasdaq will bring to this partnership," said Dan Draper, Invesco PowerShares Managing Director of Global ETFs. "Financial Services is the largest sector of the overall global market and while many products lump all financial services companies together, they fail to recognize that financial companies tend to trade on different factors."

The indexes will continue to be the basis for seven ETFs offering investors access to key financial sub-sectors, including:

Fund Name	Index Name	ETF Ticker
PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Bank Index	KBWB
PowerShares KBW Capital Markets Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Capital Markets Index	KBWC
PowerShares KBW Insurance Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Insurance Index	KBWI
PowerShares KBW Regional Banking Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index	KBWR
PowerShares KBW Property and Casualty Insurance Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Property & Casualty Index	KBWP
PowerShares KBW High Dividend Yield Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Financial Sector Dividend Yield Index	KBWD
PowerShares KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT Portfolio	KBW Nasdaq Premium Yield Eq. REIT Index	KBWY

There are 187 ETPs benchmarked to Nasdaq's global indexes, currently, and in 2014 alone, 27 new ETPs began tracking Nasdaq Indexes. The ETPs represent $105 billion in assets under management.