ETF Securities - History

History

ETF Securities is a provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETFs, Commodity ETCs and Currency ETCs). The management of ETF Securities pioneered the development of ETCs, with the world's first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion Securities in Australia and London in 2003 and then the world's first entire ETC platform which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006.

ETF Securities now offers more than 250 Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The ETPs provide investors with a wide variety of investment strategies, with ETPs offering access to asset classes such as equities, currencies and commodities with physical, long, forward, leveraged and/or short exposure.

In 2009, ETF Securities:

• Announced the world's largest FX platform tracking the MSFXSM Index
• Added 5 new ETCs covering Forward Crude Oil, Cocoa, Lead, Tin and Platinum to complete its platform of long, short and leveraged Commodity ETCs
• Launched world's first precious metal physical commodity ETF platform in Japan
• Launched two physical backed Silver (SIVR) and Gold (SGOL) ETCs in USA
• Added Europe's first complete platform of double leveraged (2x) and double short (-2x) ETFs tracking Europe's main equity indices
• Listed world’s largest Exchange Traded Currency platform

In 2010, ETF Securities:

• Listed the first US physically backed Platinum and Palladium exchange traded funds listed on the NYSE Arca, the listings of PPLT and PALL complements the exsiting Gold (SGOL) and Silver (SIVR) ETF listings. Combined they form the 1st physically backed precious metals platform in the US market
• Listed 10 Euro-based Currency ETCs, providing long or short exposure to the EUR versus G-10 Currencies including (CHF, GBP, JPY, NOK, and SEK)
• Listed 14 commodity ETCs on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• Listed Europe’s first Currency ETCs on the Chinese Renminbi and Indian Rupee on the London Stock Exchange.
• Listed 16 Triple Long and Triple Short Currency ETCs on the London Stock Exchange.
• Listed world’s first physical industrial metal ETC platform.

ETPs are simple to access as they are traded in up to five currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, JPY and AUD) and listed on up to nine major exchanges globally including the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, NYSE-Euronext Paris, NYSE-Euronext Amsterdam, Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana, the Australian Securities Exchange and the Irish Stock Exchange.

Additional ways investors can gain exposure to the market is through short, long, leveraged and forward ETCs.