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Small-Cap Strategies: Discussion with FTSE Russell
April 11, 2025

Global Investment Strategist Simeon Hyman speaks with Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management at FTSE Russell about a small-cap Russell 2000 strategy that can potentially help investors build income now and income later. 

For standardized returns and performance data current to the most recent month end, please visit the ITWO and SMDV performance pages. 

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ITWO

Russell 2000 High Income ETF

ProShares Russell 2000 High Income ETF seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Cboe Russell 2000 Daily Covered Call Index.

SMDV

Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF

Seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Russell 2000® Dividend Growth Index.

ITWO seeks to replicate daily covered call strategies by investing in equity securities and derivatives. The fund does not sell (write) call options. 

Any forward-looking statements herein are based on expectations of ProShare Advisors LLC at this time. ProShare Advisors LLC undertakes no duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise; actual results may vary materially. 

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Index information does not reflect any management fees, transaction costs or expenses. Indexes are unmanaged, and one cannot invest directly in an index. 

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.These ProShares ETFs are non-diversified and entail certain risks, including risks associated with the use of derivatives (swap agreements, futures contracts and similar instruments), investments in smaller companies, imperfect benchmark correlation, and market price variance, all of which can increase volatility and decrease performance. Please see summary and fullprospectusesfor a more complete description of risks. 

There is no guarantee any ProShares ETF will achieve its investment objective. The performance of the fund may not correspond to the performance of the Russell 2000 Index, the fund may not be successful in generating income for investors, and the fund may not capture returns that traditional covered call strategies may sacrifice. 

The Cboe Russell 2000 Daily Covered Call Index replicates the performance of a covered call investment strategy that combines a long position in the Russell 2000 Index with a short position in Russell 2000 Index call options. In particular, the index is designed to replicate a daily covered call strategy that sells call options with one day to expiration each day. The Fund intends to make distributions each month of an amount that reflects the dividends and call premium income earned by a daily Russell 2000 Index covered call strategy (net of expenses). 

There can be no guarantee that the funds will make such distributions, and the amount of such distributions, if any, may vary significantly from month to month. There can be no guarantee that the Funds will make distributions and the amount of such distributions, if any, may vary significantly from month to month. Some or all of the Fund's distributions may be taxable or non-taxable. For 19a-1 notices, distributions are characterized as income or return of capital or some combination, but this characterization does not impact whether the distribution is taxable. 

Shares of any ETF are generally bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Your brokerage commissions will reduce returns. 

Investments in smaller companies typically exhibit higher volatility. Small-cap companies may have limited product lines or resources, may be dependent upon a particular market niche and may have greater fluctuations in price than the stocks of larger companies. Small- and mid-cap companies may lack the financial and personnel resources to handle economic or industry-wide setbacks and, as a result, such setbacks could have a greater effect on small-cap security prices. 

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