Introducing the Zacks Yield Hog Index™

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Introducing the Zacks Yield Hog Index™

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Zacks Investment Research has created the Zacks Yield Hog Index, the first yield-oriented index to combine equities, preferred stocks, ADRs, REITs, master limited partnerships (MLPs), and closed-end funds.
The objective of the Zacks Yield Hog Index is to outperform passive dividend benchmarks using a proprietary model based on dividend growth, the capacity to increase the current dividend, liquidity, and dividend yield.
Zacks believes that a strategy focused on high dividend yielding common stocks that have shown sustainable dividend growth and low payout ratios continues to be an effective means of generating alpha.
Through the use of different asset classes as significant portions of the index, the Zacks Yield Hog makes use of the lower correlation between these asset classes to minimize risk through greater diversification.
Zacks has licensed its Yield Hog Index to Claymore Securities, Inc. for the creation of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that we believe will offer investors a new and significantly better way to invest in income generating securities.
The Zacks Yield Hog Index has a projected yield distribution of 5.34% while the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index has a projected yield of 3.15%.

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The Indices presented are for comparative purposes only and an investor cannot invest directly in an Index. The Zacks Yield Hog Index™ is designed to identify companies from the universe of small cap stocks with potentially superior risk-return profiles as determined by Zacks Investment Research. The Zacks Yield Hog Index™ is a modified equal-dollar weighted index (subject to modification), comprised of approximately 125-150 securities selected quarterly from a universe of the income-generating listed securities by asset type. Throughout this report different dates have been used in graphs and charts. Chosen dates reflect the maximum overlapping period of data for each component of the chart. Charts produced using StyleAdvisor by Zacks Investment Research. 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. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index is a dividend based, unmanaged index of the prices of 100 dividend-paying stocks selected by the Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index assumes reinvestment of dividends but does not reflect advisory fees. Zacks Investment Research’s only relationship to Claymore Securities is Zacks’ licensing to Claymore certain Zacks trademarks, Indices and trade names, which is composed by Zacks without regard to Claymore, any product or any investor. The Zacks Yield Hog Index™ was created by, and is a trademark of, Zacks Investment Research and has been licensed for use by the American Stock Exchange LLC. Index Products traded on the Amex that are based on the Index are not sponsored by Zacks and Zacks does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the Index, or the results to be obtained by any person from the use of the Index or the trading of Index Provider Index products.