S&P Licenses Claymore Investments To Create Products Based Upon S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index

Standard & Poor’s, the world’s leading index provider, announced today that it has licensed Claymore Investments Inc. to launch an ETF based upon the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index.

The S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index, which is part of the Standard & Poor’s dividend aristocrats series, measures the performance of Canadian companies that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends for at least five years.

The S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index is weighted by indicated annual dividend yield. To prevent the index from being concentrated in only a few names, the methodology incorporates limits so that no individual stock represents more than 8% of the index weight and no income trust represents more than 5% of the index weight.

The S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index captures both sustainable dividend income and capital appreciation potential which are both key factors in investors’ total return expectations. The index also offers diversification across all sectors and exhibits both growth and value characteristics.

For more information on the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index, please visit: www.standardandpoors.com/indices.