Van Eck has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF.” The Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap Index.

They did not specify a trading symbol or operating expenses in the initial filing.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Fund’s benchmark index. The Fund’s benchmark index is comprised of stocks and depositary receipts of publicly traded companies that are domiciled in Russia. For the purposes of this policy, “publicly traded companies that are domiciled in Russia” means (i) companies organized in, or for which the principal trading market is in, Russia, (ii) companies, alone or on a consolidated basis, that have 50% or more of their assets invested in Russia or (iii) companies that alone or on a consolidated basis derive 50% or more of their revenues primarily from either goods produced, sales made or services performed in Russia. The Fund’s benchmark index is currently comprised of small-capitalization companies selected by [     ] (the “Index Provider”) on the basis of their relative market capitalizations in Russia. The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities of small-capitalization Russian companies. The Fund’s 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders before it can be changed.

The Fund, using a “passive” or indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Index.. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index before fees and expenses will be 95% or better. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation.

The Fund may also utilize convertible securities and derivative instruments, such as swaps, options, warrants, futures contracts, currency forwards, structured notes and participation notes to seek performance that corresponds to the Index. Investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the component securities of the Index will count towards the 80% investment policy discussed above.

The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries.

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