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ZACKS LAUNCHES NEW SEMI ACTIVE SECTOR ROTATION INDEX

Chicago,IL-September 21, 2006- Zacks has created a large-cap sector rotation index to outperform passive benchmarks such as the S&P 500.  Instead of owning all sectors at all times, the Zacks Sector Rotation Index seeks to overweight those sectors that Zacks feels have an attractive risk/return potential.

"Zacks continues to develop indices with innovative ideas based on years of investment research and practice," says Christopher Huemmer, CFA, Vice President of Zacks Investment Research, Inc.  "We are pleased to launch one of the most sophisticated indices available on the market today with the Zacks Sector Rotation Index."

In an attempt to help investors harness the power of sector investing, Zacks has created and launched The Zacks Sector Rotation Index™. This new, index is aimed at overweighting the sectors that when combined, have the potential to outperform the S&P 500 Index™ over time and other benchmark indices, on a risk-adjusted basis. "This index uses a proprietary Zacks methodology to identify sectors with potentially superior risk-return profiles," says Zacks.

Sector allocations are chosen based on a proprietary methodology using the 16 Zacks Expanded Sectors. The sector allocation methodology uses a bottom-up approach to determine the weightings of each sector based on relative value, price momentum, and earnings growth. Exposure for any one sector may range from 0% to a maximum of 45% of the index. Within each sector, individual stock exposure will be determined by relative market capitalization. No individual stock may consist of more than 5% of the total index. Sector allocation, constituent ranking, reconstitution and rebalancing is repeated quarterly.

Zacks Investment Research has licensed its new Sector Rotation Index to Claymore Advisors, LLC for use in the development of an Exchange Traded Fund, which will be called the Claymore/Zacks Sector Rotation Portfolio ETF. "In developing the Claymore line of ETFs, we are extremely proud to be partnering with an innovative index provider such as Zacks Investment Research," said David. C. Hooten, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Claymore Securities.

The S&P 500 Index is a well-known, unmanaged index of the prices of 500 large-company common stocks, mainly blue-chip stocks, selected by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 500 Index assumes reinvestment of dividends but does not reflect advisory fees. An investor cannot invest directly in an index. 

About Zacks
Founded in 1978, Zacks Investment Research has more than 25 years of experience in providing institutional and individual investors with the analytical tools and financial information necessary to the success of their investment process. Zacks created the first earnings estimate revision model and originated the concept of the Earnings Surprise. Today, Zacks' models process over 25,000 earnings estimate revisions and changes in broker recommendations weekly from over 200 brokerage firms, produced by more than 3,500 analysts. As one of the top market data and proprietary investment model providers, Zacks clients include some of the most widely known institutions in the financial industry.

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