ProShares To Begin Trading The “ProShares VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF” (VIXM) Tuesday January 4, 2011

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ProShares To Begin Trading The “ProShares VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF” (VIXM) Tuesday January 4, 2011

December 31st, 2010

ProShares will begin trading its new “ProShares VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF” (VIXM) Tuesday, January 4th. The estimated amount of all fees and expenses which are anticipated to be incurred by a new investor in Shares of the Fund is .85%. The Fund will seek to provide investment results (before fees and expenses) that match the performance of the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index. The S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index is comprised of prices for four contract months of VIX futures, representing a market-based estimation of constant maturity, fi ve month forward implied VIX values. The index measures the return from a rolling long position in the fourth, fi fth, sixth, and seventh month VIX futures contracts, and rolls continuously throughout each month while maintaining positions in the fi fth and sixth month contracts. This results in a constant five-month maturity.

Principal Investment Strategies

In seeking to achieve the Funds’ investment objectives, the Sponsor uses a mathematical approach to investing. Using this approach, the Sponsor determines the type, quantity and mix of investment positions that the Sponsor believes in combination should produce returns consistent with the Funds’ objectives. The Sponsor relies upon a pre-determined model to generate orders that result in repositioning the Funds’ investments in accordance with their respective investment objective.

Each Fund intends to obtain exposure to its Index by investing in VIX futures contracts. Each Fund will also hold cash or cash equivalents such as U.S. Treasury securities or other high credit quality short-term fixed-income or similar securities (such as shares of money market funds, bank deposits, bank money market accounts, certain variable rate-demand notes and collateralized repurchase agreements) that may be used as margin for the futures contracts.

The Sponsor does not invest the assets of the Funds based on its view of the investment merit of a particular investment, nor does it conduct conventional volatility research or analysis, or forecast market movement or trends, in managing the assets of the Funds. The Funds seek to remain fully exposed at all times to the Funds’ underlying benchmark without regard to market conditions, trends or direction.

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