PowerShares FTSE RAFI Canadian Fundamental Index ETF - PXC

ETF Overview

The fund seeks to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the FTSE RAFI Canada Index.

This ETF gives investors exposure to all Canadian stocks in the FTSE RAFI Developed ex U.S. 1000 Index, a fundamentally weighted index.

Additional Index Information

A Fundamental Index-based ETF offers the advantages of an active management strategy with the highlights of a passive investment: lower turnover costs and transparent rules-based selection, while retaining high investment capacity.

The index weights constituents using four accounting factors, rather than market capitalization. These four factors include:

Fundamental Indexation

This ETF tracks a Fundamental Index. The strategy is known as Fundamental Index or Fundamental Indexation.

Fundamental Indexation is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional indices based on market capitalization. Fundamental Indexation weights its constituents based on company fundamental factors including dividends, total sales, free cash flow and book equity value, each variable not depending on the fluctuations of the market valuation.

Fundamental Indexation seeks to identify the true "fair value" of each company.

Key ETF Data

Current Price, Fund Performance, Yield, NAV, Charts etc

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