FocusShares will begin trading its new “Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF” (NYSE:FMU) Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the price and yield performance of the Morningstar US Market Index (the “Underlying Index”).  The Underlying Index measures the performance of United States (“US”), publicly traded companies as determined by Morningstar, Inc.’s (“Morningstar”) proprietary index methodology.

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses: 0.05%

Principal Investment Strategies
 
The Morningstar US Market Index measures the performance of 1,536 stocks issued by large-, mid-, and small-capitalization companies that are domiciled or principally traded in the US. The Morningstar index methodology defines the “US Market” as those stocks that form the top 97% of the market capitalization of the stocks eligible to be included in the Underlying Index. As of December 20, 2010, the Underlying Index, which is considered diversified, was comprised of component securities with market capitalizations greater than $344.72 million that have a daily average traded volume of at least 536,751 over the past three months.  The total market capitalization of the Underlying Index as of December 20, 2010 was in excess of $14.04 trillion.
 
Indexing Investment Approach. The Fund is not managed according to traditional methods of “active” investment management, which involve the buying and selling of securities based upon economic, financial and market analysis and investment judgment.  Instead, the Fund, utilizing a “passive” or indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Underlying Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Underlying Index.  The Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Underlying Index and may, from time to time, engage in a representative sampling strategy.
 
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its assets in securities of the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest less than 90% of its assets in the securities of the Underlying Index only to the extent that the Fund’s investment advisor, FocusShares LLC (the “Advisor”), needs additional flexibility to comply with the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and other regulatory requirements.

For the complete prospectus click: HERE

For the fund website click: HERE

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