Twelve New Stocks Added to Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index in Quarterly Rebalancing; Seven Deleted

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (TICKER: RVEI) will add twelve new components in its quarterly rebalancing, effective 6:00 PM (EST) Sunday, December 18, 2011.  Seven stocks 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.

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

Four stocks will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Energy Producers Index (RVEE), while two stocks will be deleted, changing the number of index components to 131.

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.

Ten stocks will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Composite Index (RVECP), while 25 stocks will be deleted, changing the number of index components to 760.

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. 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 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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