Ten New Commodity Stocks Added to Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index in Quarterly Rebalancing; Five Stocks Deleted

NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (TICKER: RVEI) will add ten new components in its quarterly rebalancing, effective 6:00 PM (EDT) Sunday, September 18, 2011.  Five components will be dropped, changing the number of index components to 342.

One stock will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Agriculture Producers Index (TICKER: RVEA), changing the number of index components to 47.

Five stocks will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Metals Producers Index (RVEM), while two stocks will be deleted, changing the number of index components to 121.

One stock will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Energy Producers Index (RVEE), while three stocks will be deleted, changing the number of index components to 130.

No changes will be made to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers US Extra Liquid Index (RVEXL), maintaining the fixed number of 50 index components.

A complete list of constituents and weights will be posted on the Index website (http://rve.snetglobalindexes.com/about_the_indexes.php) as of the effective date.

The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index is a capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index of the most prominent commodity stocks in the world. To be included in the RVEI, stocks must pass multiple screens, including for capitalization, float, exchange listing, share price and turnover. The index is divided into six sectors: a) Energy, b) Agriculture, c) Base and Industrial Metals, d) Forest products, e) Precious Metals and f) Alternatives.

Detailed information, including constituent data, rules and price information, on the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index is available at http://rve.snetglobalindexes.com/. Data is also available through most vendors of financial data.

Index: Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (USD) TICKER: RVEI          

Index: Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (EUR) TICKER: RVEIE

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