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12.29.2014
Guggenheim ETFs Prospectus

NYSE ARCA, Inc.
Ticker Symbol
Fund Name
YAO
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF
CQQQ
Guggenheim China Technology ETF
CGW
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF
TAN
Guggenheim Solar ETF




































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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 
Page 
Summary Information 
 
 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF 
 
 
Guggenheim China Technology ETF 
 
 
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF 
 
 
Guggenheim Solar ETF 
 
 
Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Investment Strategies 
 
and Principal Investment Risks 
 
 
Non-Principal Investment Strategies 
 
 
Non-Principal Risk Considerations 
 
 
Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings 
 
 
Investment Management Services 
 
 
Purchase and Redemption of Shares 
 
 
How to Buy and Sell Shares 
 
 
Frequent Purchases and Redemptions 
 
 
Fund Service Providers 
 
 
Index Providers 
 
 
Disclaimers 
 
 
Federal Income Taxation 
 
 
Tax-Advantaged Product Structure 
 
 
Other Information 
 
 
Financial Highlights 
 
 





Summary Information
 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF (YAO)
 
Investment Objective
 
The Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called the AlphaShares China All Cap Index (the “China All-Cap Index” or the “Index”).
 
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
 
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors purchasing Shares in the secondary market may be subject to costs (including customary brokerage commissions) charged by their broker.
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 
 
Management fees (comprehensive management fee) 
0.70
%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees
0.00
%
Other expenses 
0.01
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 
0.71
%
 
Example
 
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
 
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
One Year 
Three Years 
Five Years 
Ten Years 
$73
$281
$507
$1,155
 
Portfolio Turnover
 
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 12% of the average value of its portfolio.
 

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Principal Investment Strategies
 
The Fund, using a “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, seeks to replicate, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, the performance of the China All-Cap Index (Index Ticker: ACNACTR). The China All-Cap Index is designed to measure and monitor the performance of the investable universe of publicly-traded companies based in mainland China (as classified by the S&P BMI County Code classification system). The Index was created by AlphaShares, LLC (“AlphaShares” or the “Index Provider”) and is maintained by Standard & Poor's (the “Index Administrator”). The Index includes equity securities of companies of all categories of market capitalizations, as defined by AlphaShares (subject to the minimum capitalization requirements set forth in the China All-Cap Index Methodology).
 
The Index may include Hong Kong listed securities, including China H-shares and Red Chip shares. China H-shares are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Red Chip shares are issued by companies with controlling Chinese shareholders that are incorporated outside mainland China and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Index may also include N-Shares, which are issued by companies based in mainland China and listed on the NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) or NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”). The Index does not include China A-Shares (which are subject to substantial restrictions on foreign investment) or China B-Shares (which offer a generally smaller market and limited liquidity), each of which trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
 
The Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in common stock, American depositary receipts (“ADRs”), American depositary shares (“ADSs”), global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) and international depositary receipts (“IDRs”) that comprise the Index and depositary receipts or shares representing common stocks included in the Index (or underlying securities representing ADRs, ADSs, GDRs and IDRs included in the Index). The depositary receipts included in the Index may be sponsored or unsponsored. The Fund has adopted a policy that requires the Fund to provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this policy or the Index. The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 2 (the “Trust”) may change the Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval, except as otherwise indicated.
 
The Fund may invest directly in one or more underlying securities represented by depositary receipts included in the Index under the following limited circumstances: (a) when market conditions result in the underlying security providing improved liquidity relative to the depositary receipt; (b) when a depositary receipt is trading at a significantly different price than its underlying security; or (c) the timing of trade execution is improved due to the local market in which an underlying security is traded being open at different times than the market in which the security’s corresponding depositary receipt is traded.
 
The Fund generally will invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Index in those weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the securities in the Index in proportions expected by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (the "Investment Adviser") to replicate generally the performance of the Index as a whole. There may also be instances, such as: (i) regulatory requirements which may affect the Fund’s ability to hold a security included in the Index, (ii) restrictions or requirements in local markets which may render it infeasible or inefficient for the Fund to purchase or sell a security included in the Index or (iii) liquidity concerns that may affect the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell a security included in the Index, in which the Investment Adviser may choose to overweight another security in the Index or purchase (or sell) securities not in the Index which the Investment Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for one or more Index components in seeking to accurately track the Index. In addition, from time to time securities are added to or removed from the Index. The Fund may sell securities that are represented in the Index or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index pursuant to scheduled reconstitutions and rebalancings of the Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of September 30, 2014, the financial services sector represented a substantial portion of the Index.
 

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Principal Investment Risks
 
Investors should consider the following risk factors and special considerations associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause you to lose money. The Fund’s Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund has not been guaranteed, sponsored, recommended, or approved by the United States, or any agency, instrumentality or officer of the United States, has not been insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is not guaranteed by and is not otherwise an obligation of any bank or insured depository institution.
 
Equity Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the industries in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific companies in which the Fund invests. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of equity securities of an issuer held by the Fund; the price of common stock of an issuer may be particularly sensitive to general movements in the stock market; or a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks and other equity securities held by the Fund. In addition, common stock of an issuer in the Fund’s portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because the issuer of the security experiences a decline in its financial condition. Common stock is subordinated to preferred stocks, bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure, in terms of priority to corporate income, and therefore will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of such issuers. In addition, while broad market measures of common stocks have historically generated higher average returns than fixed income securities, common stocks have also experienced significantly more volatility in those returns.
 
China Investment Risk. Investing in securities of Chinese companies involves additional risks, including, but not limited to: the economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others; the central government has historically exercised substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state ownership; and actions of the Chinese central and local government authorities continue to have a substantial effect on economic conditions in China. In addition, the Chinese government has from time to time taken actions that influence the prices at which certain goods may be sold, encourage companies to invest or concentrate in particular industries, induce mergers between companies in certain industries and induce private companies to publicly offer their securities to increase or continue the rate of economic growth, control the rate of inflation or otherwise regulate economic expansion. It may do so in the future as well, potentially having a significant adverse effect on economic conditions in China, the economic prospects for, and the market prices and liquidity of, the securities of Chinese companies and the payments of dividends and interest by Chinese companies.
 
Risk of Investing in Hong Kong. The Fund’s investments which are listed and traded in Hong Kong may expose the Fund to certain legal, regulatory, political, currency and economic risks. China is Hong Kong’s largest trading partner, both in terms of exports and imports. Any changes in the Chinese economy, trade regulations or currency exchange rates may have an adverse impact on Hong Kong’s economy. Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997 as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China under the principle of “one country, two systems.” Although China is obligated to maintain the current capitalist economic and social system of Hong Kong through June 30, 2047, the continuation of economic and social freedoms enjoyed in Hong Kong is dependent on the government of China. There is no guarantee that China will continue to honor Hong Kong’s autonomy, and China may change its policies regarding Hong Kong at any time. Any attempt by China to tighten its control over Hong Kong’s political, economic or social policies may result in an adverse effect on Hong Kong’s economy. Hong Kong is located in a part of the world that has historically been prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes and flooding and is economically sensitive to environmental events. Any such event could result in a significant adverse impact on the Hong Kong economy.

Foreign Investment Risk. The Fund’s investments in non-U.S. issuers may involve unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including less market liquidity, generally greater market volatility than U.S. securities and less complete financial information than for U.S. issuers. In addition, adverse political, economic or social developments could undermine the value of the Fund’s investments or prevent the Fund from realizing the full value of its investments. Financial reporting standards for companies based in foreign markets differ from those in the United States. Finally, the value of the currency of the country in which the Fund has invested could decline relative to the value of the U.S. dollar, which may affect the value of the investment to U.S. investors. The

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Fund will not enter into transactions to hedge against declines in the value of the Fund’s assets that are denominated in a foreign currency.
 
Emerging market countries are countries that major international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, generally consider to be less economically mature than developed nations. Emerging market countries can include every nation in the world except the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most countries located in Western Europe. Investing in foreign countries, particularly emerging market countries, entails the risk that news and events unique to a country or region will affect those markets and their issuers. Countries with emerging markets may have relatively unstable governments, may present the risks of nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the repatriation of assets. The economies of emerging markets countries also may be based on only a few industries, making them more vulnerable to changes in local or global trade conditions and more sensitive to debt burdens or inflation rates. Local securities markets may trade a small number of securities and may be unable to respond effectively to increases in trading volume, potentially making prompt liquidation of holdings difficult or impossible at times. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent, and subject to sudden change.
 
Financial Services Sector Risk. The financial services sector is subject to extensive government regulation, can be subject to relatively rapid change due to increasingly blurred distinctions between service segments, and can be significantly affected by availability and cost of capital funds, changes in interest rates, the rate of corporate and consumer debt defaults, and price competition. Companies in the financial services sector may be subject to extensive government regulation that affects the scope of their activities, the prices they can charge and the amount of capital they must maintain. The profitability of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely affected by increases in interest rates, by loan losses, which usually increase in economic downturns, and by credit rating downgrades. In addition, the financial services sector is undergoing numerous changes, including continuing consolidations, development of new products and structures and changes to its regulatory framework. Furthermore, some companies in the financial services sector perceived as benefiting from government intervention in the past may be subject to future government-imposed restrictions on their businesses or face increased government involvement in their operations. Increased government involvement in the financial services sector, including measures such as taking ownership positions in financial institutions, could result in a dilution of the Fund’s investments in financial institutions. Developments since 2007 in the credit markets may cause companies operating in the financial services sector to incur large losses, experience declines in the value of their assets and even cease operations .
 
Limited Exposure Risk. China A-Shares and China B-Shares are not eligible for inclusion in the Index, even if they would otherwise qualify under the other criteria set forth in the Index methodology. China A-Shares are subject to substantial restrictions on foreign investment, while the China B-Share market generally is smaller and offers less liquidity than the categories of securities which may be included in the Index. However, by excluding such shares from the Index, the exposure provided by the Index (and thus the Fund) to the Chinese presence in the sector may be more limited than would be the case if the Index included China A-Shares or China B-Shares.
 
Depositary Receipt Risk. The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies in the form of ADRs, GDRs and IDRs. ADRs are negotiable certificates issued by a U.S. financial institution that represent a specified number of shares in a foreign stock and trade on a U.S. national securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Sponsored ADRs are issued with the support of the issuer of the foreign stock underlying the ADRs and carry all of the rights of common shares, including voting rights. GDRs and IDRs are similar to ADRs, but may be issued in bearer form and are typically offered for sale globally and held by a foreign branch of an international bank. The underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not contractually obligated to disclose material information in the U.S. and, therefore, such information may not correlate to the market value of the unsponsored depositary receipt. The underlying securities of the ADRs, GDRs and IDRs in the Fund’s portfolio are usually denominated or quoted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. As a result, changes in foreign currency exchange rates may affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio. In addition, because the underlying securities of ADRs, GDRs and IDRs trade on foreign exchanges at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, the value of the securities underlying the ADRs, GDRs and IDRs may change materially at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, regardless of whether there is an active U.S. market for shares of the Fund.
 

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Small and Medium-Sized Company Risk. Investing in securities of small and medium-sized companies involves greater risk than is customarily associated with investing in larger, more established companies. Securities of these companies present additional risks because their earnings are less predictable and they are more likely than larger companies to have narrower product lines, markets or financial resources. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of larger, more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall stock market.
 
Micro-Cap Company Risk. Micro-cap stocks involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations. Micro-cap companies may be newly formed or in the early stages of development, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources and may lack management depth. In addition, there may be less public information available about these companies. The shares of micro-cap companies tend to trade less frequently than those of larger, more established companies, which can adversely affect the pricing of these securities and the future ability to sell these securities. Also, it may take a long time before the Fund realizes a gain, if any, on an investment in a micro-cap company.
 
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Index.
 
The Fund may not be fully invested at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions and expenses. If the Fund utilizes a sampling approach, or otherwise holds investments other than those which comprise the Index, its return may not correlate as well with the return of the Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the securities in the Index with the same weightings as the Index.
 
Concentration Risk. If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the Fund’s Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries.
 
Passive Management Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not “actively” managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble unless that security is removed from the Index. In addition, the Fund will not otherwise take defensive positions in declining markets unless such positions are reflected in the Index.
 
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. Even though no single security weight may exceed 5.0% of the Index at the time of each annual rebalance, changes in the market value of the Index’s constituent securities may result in the Fund being invested in the securities of individual issuers (and making additional such investments in the case of creations of additional Creation Units) in greater proportions. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a diversified fund.
 
Fund Performance
 
The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year and since inception compare with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Fund is available at guggenheiminvestments.com.


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 Calendar Year Total Return as of 12/31
The Fund commenced operations on October 19, 2009. The Fund’s year-to-date total return was -0.15% as of September 30, 2014 .
During the periods shown in the chart above, the Fund’s highest and lowest calendar quarter returns were 14.70% and -26.49% , respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2013 and September 30, 2011 .
All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of any state or local tax. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employee-sponsored retirement plans.
 
 
 
Since 

Average Annual Total Returns for the 
 
inception 

Periods Ended December 31, 2013
1 year 

10/19/2009

Returns Before Taxes 
8.97
%
3.84
%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 
8.13
%
3.14
%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 
5.08
%
2.67
%
AlphaShares China All-Cap Index 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
9.69
%
4.60
%
MSCI China Index 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
3.64
%
2.58
%
 
Management
 
Investment Adviser. Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC.
 
Portfolio Managers. The portfolio managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, James R. King, CFA, and Cindy Gao. Mr. Byrum, Senior Vice President, Mr. King, Portfolio Manager, and Ms. Gao, ETF Analyst, have managed the Fund’s portfolio since December 2013.
 




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Purchase and Sale of Shares
 
The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in a large specified number of Shares called a “Creation Unit” or multiples thereof. A Creation Unit consists of 100,000 Shares. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units principally in-kind. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca and because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
 
Tax Information
 
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains.
 
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
 
If you purchase Shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Investment Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, the support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
 
 

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Guggenheim China Technology ETF (CQQQ)
 
Investment Objective
 
The Guggenheim China Technology ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called the AlphaShares China Technology Index (the “China Technology Index” or the “Index”).
 
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
 
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors purchasing Shares in the secondary market may be subject to costs (including customary brokerage commissions) charged by their broker.
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 
 
Management fees (comprehensive management fee) 
0.70
%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees
0.00
%
Other expenses 
0.01
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 
0.71
%
Example 
 
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay when purchasing or selling Shares. 
 
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: 
 
One Year 
Three Years 
Five Years 
Ten Years 
$73
$281
$507
$1,155

Portfolio Turnover
 
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 39% of the average value of its portfolio.
 

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Principal Investment Strategies
 
The Fund, using a “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, seeks to replicate, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, the performance of the China Technology Index (Index Ticker: ACNIT). The China Technology Index is designed to measure and monitor the performance of the universe of publicly-traded companies which are based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau (as classified by the S&P BMI County Code classification system), are in the Information Technology Sector, as defined by S&P Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”) and are open to foreign investment. The Index was created by AlphaShares, LLC (“AlphaShares” or the “Index Provider”) and is maintained by Standard & Poor's (the “Index Administrator”). The Index includes equity securities of companies of all categories of market capitalizations, as defined by AlphaShares (subject to the minimum capitalization requirements set forth in the China Technology Index methodology).
 
The Index may include Hong Kong listed securities, including China H-shares and Red Chip shares. China H-shares are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Red Chip shares are issued by companies with controlling Chinese shareholders that are incorporated outside mainland China and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Index may also include N-Shares, which are issued by companies based in mainland China and listed on the NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) or NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”). The Index does not include China A-Shares (which are subject to substantial restrictions on foreign investment) or China B-Shares (which offer a generally smaller market and limited liquidity), each of which trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
 
The Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in common stock, American depositary receipts (“ADRs”), American depositary shares (“ADSs”), global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) and international depositary receipts (“IDRs”) that comprise the Index and depositary receipts or shares representing common stocks included in the Index (or underlying securities representing ADRs, ADSs, GDRs and IDRs included in the Index). The depositary receipts included in the Index may be sponsored or unsponsored. The Fund has adopted a policy that requires the Fund to provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this policy or the Index. The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 2 (the "Trust") may change the Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval, except as otherwise indicated.
 
The Fund may invest directly in one or more underlying securities represented by depositary receipts included in the Index under the following limited circumstances: (a) when market conditions result in the underlying security providing improved liquidity relative to the depositary receipt; (b) when a depositary receipt is trading at a significantly different price than its underlying security; or (c) the timing of trade execution is improved due to the local market in which an underlying security is traded being open at different times than the market in which the security’s corresponding depositary receipt is traded.
 
The Fund generally will invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Index in those weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the securities in the Index in proportions expected by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (the "Investment Adviser") to replicate generally the performance of the Index as a whole. There may also be instances, such as: (i) regulatory requirements which may affect the Fund’s ability to hold a security included in the Index, (ii) restrictions or requirements in local markets which may render it infeasible or inefficient for the Fund to purchase or sell a security included in the Index or (iii) liquidity concerns that may affect the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell a security included in the Index, in which the Investment Adviser may choose to overweight another security in the Index or purchase (or sell) securities not in the Index which the Investment Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for one or more Index components in seeking to accurately track the Index. In addition, from time to time securities are added to or removed from the Index. The Fund may sell securities that are represented in the Index or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index pursuant to scheduled reconstitutions and rebalancings of the Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of September 30, 2014, the information technology sector represented a substantial portion of the Index.
 

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Principal Investment Risks
 
Investors should consider the following risk factors and special considerations associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause you to lose money. The Fund’s Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund has not been guaranteed, sponsored, recommended, or approved by the United States, or any agency, instrumentality or officer of the United States, has not been insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is not guaranteed by and is not otherwise an obligation of any bank or insured depository institution.
 
Equity Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the industries in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific companies in which the Fund invests. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of equity securities of an issuer held by the Fund; the price of common stock of an issuer may be particularly sensitive to general movements in the stock market; or a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks and other equity securities held by the Fund. In addition, common stock of an issuer in the Fund’s portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because the issuer of the security experiences a decline in its financial condition. Common stock is subordinated to preferred stocks, bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure, in terms of priority to corporate income, and therefore will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of such issuers. In addition, while broad market measures of common stocks have historically generated higher average returns than fixed income securities, common stocks have also experienced significantly more volatility in those returns.
 
China Investment Risk. Investing in securities of Chinese companies involves additional risks, including, but not limited to: the economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others; the central government has historically exercised substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state ownership; and actions of the Chinese central and local government authorities continue to have a substantial effect on economic conditions in China. In addition, the Chinese government has from time to time taken actions that influence the prices at which certain goods may be sold, encourage companies to invest or concentrate in particular industries, induce mergers between companies in certain industries and induce private companies to publicly offer their securities to increase or continue the rate of economic growth, control the rate of inflation or otherwise regulate economic expansion. It may do so in the future as well, potentially having a significant adverse effect on economic conditions in China, the economic prospects for, and the market prices and liquidity of, the securities of Chinese companies and the payments of dividends and interest by Chinese companies.
 
Risk of Investing in Hong Kong. The Fund’s investments which are listed and traded in Hong Kong may expose the Fund to certain legal, regulatory, political, currency and economic risks. China is Hong Kong’s largest trading partner, both in terms of exports and imports. Any changes in the Chinese economy, trade regulations or currency exchange rates may have an adverse impact on Hong Kong’s economy. Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997 as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China under the principle of “one country, two systems.” Although China is obligated to maintain the current capitalist economic and social system of Hong Kong through June 30, 2047, the continuation of economic and social freedoms enjoyed in Hong Kong is dependent on the government of China. There is no guarantee that China will continue to honor Hong Kong’s autonomy, and China may change its policies regarding Hong Kong at any time. Any attempt by China to tighten its control over Hong Kong’s political, economic or social policies may result in an adverse effect on Hong Kong’s economy. Hong Kong is located in a part of the world that has historically been prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes and flooding and is economically sensitive to environmental events. Any such event could result in a significant adverse impact on the Hong Kong economy.
 
Foreign Investment Risk. The Fund’s investments in non-U.S. issuers may involve unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including less market liquidity, generally greater market volatility than U.S. securities and less complete financial information than for U.S. issuers. In addition, adverse political, economic or social developments could undermine the value of the Fund’s investments or prevent the Fund from realizing the full value of its investments. Financial reporting standards for companies based in foreign markets differ from those in the United States. Finally, the value of the currency of the country in which the Fund has invested could decline relative to the value of the U.S. dollar, which may affect the value of the investment to U.S. investors. The

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Fund will not enter into transactions to hedge against declines in the value of the Fund’s assets that are denominated in a foreign currency.
 
Emerging market countries are countries that major international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, generally consider to be less economically mature than developed nations. Emerging market countries can include every nation in the world except the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most countries located in Western Europe. Investing in foreign countries, particularly emerging market countries, entails the risk that news and events unique to a country or region will affect those markets and their issuers. Countries with emerging markets may have relatively unstable governments, may present the risks of nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the repatriation of assets. The economies of emerging markets countries also may be based on only a few industries, making them more vulnerable to changes in local or global trade conditions and more sensitive to debt burdens or inflation rates. Local securities markets may trade a small number of securities and may be unable to respond effectively to increases in trading volume, potentially making prompt liquidation of holdings difficult or impossible at times. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent, and subject to sudden change.
 
Depositary Receipt Risk. The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies in the form of ADRs, GDRs and IDRs. ADRs are negotiable certificates issued by a U.S. financial institution that represent a specified number of shares in a foreign stock and trade on a U.S. national securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Sponsored ADRs are issued with the support of the issuer of the foreign stock underlying the ADRs and carry all of the rights of common shares, including voting rights. GDRs and IDRs are similar to ADRs, but may be issued in bearer form and are typically offered for sale globally and held by a foreign branch of an international bank. The underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not contractually obligated to disclose material information in the U.S. and, therefore, such information may not correlate to the market value of the unsponsored depositary receipt. The underlying securities of the ADRs, GDRs and IDRs in the Fund’s portfolio are usually denominated or quoted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. As a result, changes in foreign currency exchange rates may affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio. In addition, because the underlying securities of ADRs, GDRs and IDRs trade on foreign exchanges at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, the value of the securities underlying the ADRs, GDRs and IDRs may change materially at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, regardless of whether there is an active U.S. market for shares of the Fund.
Information Technology Sector Risk. Competitive pressures may have a significant effect on the financial condition of companies in the information technology sector. Also, many of the products and services offered by information technology companies are subject to the risks of short product cycles and rapid obsolescence. Companies in the information technology sector also may be subject to competition from new market entrants. Such companies also may be subject to risks relating to research and development costs and the availability and price of components. As product cycles shorten and manufacturing capacity increases, these companies could become increasingly subject to aggressive pricing, which hampers profitability. Other risks include those related to regulatory changes, such as the possible adverse effects on profits of recent increased competition among telecommunications companies and the uncertainties resulting from such companies’ diversification into new domestic and international businesses, as well as agreements by any such companies linking future rate increases to inflation or other factors not directly related to the actual operating profits of the enterprise.
 
Limited Exposure Risk. China A-Shares and China B-Shares are not eligible for inclusion in the Index, even if they would otherwise qualify under the other criteria set forth in the Index methodology. China A-Shares are subject to substantial restrictions on foreign investment, while the China B-Share market generally is smaller and offers less liquidity than the categories of securities which may be included in the Index. However, by excluding such shares from the Index, the exposure provided by the Index (and thus the Fund) to the Chinese presence in the sector may be more limited than would be the case if the Index included China A-Shares or China B-Shares.
 
Small and Medium-Sized Company Risk. Investing in securities of small and medium-sized companies involves greater risk than is customarily associated with investing in larger, more established companies. Securities of these companies present additional risks because their earnings are less predictable and they are more likely than larger companies to have narrower product lines, markets or financial resources. These companies’ securities may be

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more volatile and less liquid than those of larger, more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall stock market.
 
Micro-Cap Company Risk. Micro-cap stocks involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations. Micro-cap companies may be newly formed or in the early stages of development, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources and may lack management depth. In addition, there may be less public information available about these companies. The shares of micro-cap companies tend to trade less frequently than those of larger, more established companies, which can adversely affect the pricing of these securities and the future ability to sell these securities. Also, it may take a long time before the Fund realizes a gain, if any, on an investment in a micro-cap company.
 
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Index.
 
The Fund may not be fully invested at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions and expenses. If the Fund utilizes a sampling approach, or otherwise holds investments other than those which comprise the Index, its return may not correlate as well with the return of the Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the securities in the Index with the same weightings as the Index.
 
Concentration Risk. If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the Fund’s Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries.
 
Passive Management Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not “actively” managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble unless that security is removed from the Index. In addition, the Fund will not otherwise take defensive positions in declining markets unless such positions are reflected in the Index.
 
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a diversified fund.

Fund Performance
 
The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year and since inception compare with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Fund is available at guggenheiminvestments.com.

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Calendar Year Total Return as of 12/31
The Fund commenced operations on December 8, 2009. The Fund’s year-to-date total return was 3.51% as of September 30, 2014 .
During the periods shown in the chart above, the Fund’s highest and lowest calendar quarter returns were 27.24% and -27.42% , respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2013 and September 30, 2011 .
All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of any state or local tax. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employee-sponsored retirement plans.
 
 
 
Since 

Average Annual Total Returns for the 
 
inception 

Periods Ended December 31, 2013
1 year 

12/8/2009

Returns Before Taxes 
59.68
%
10.00
%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 
59.13
%
9.42
%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 
33.78
%
7.55
%
AlphaShares China Technology Index 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
60.84
%
10.34
%
MSCI China Index 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
3.64
%
1.39
%
 
Management
 
Investment Adviser. Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC.
 
Portfolio Managers. The portfolio managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, Senior Vice President, James R. King, CFA, Portfolio Manager, and Cindy Gao, ETF Analyst.  Messrs. Byrum and King have managed the Fund’s portfolio since December 2013. Ms. Gao has managed the Fund's portfolio since December 2014.


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 Purchase and Sale of Shares
 
The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in a large specified number of Shares called a “Creation Unit” or multiples thereof. A Creation Unit consists of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units principally in-kind. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca and because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
 
Tax Information
 
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains.
 
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
 
If you purchase Shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Investment Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, the support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
 


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Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW)
 
Investment Objective
 
The Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called the S&P Global Water Index (the “Water Index” or the “Index”).
 
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
 
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors purchasing Shares in the secondary market may be subject to costs (including customary brokerage commissions) charged by their broker.
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 
 
Management fees 
0.50
%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees
0.00
%
Other expenses 
0.15
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 
0.65
%
Expense reimbursements(1) 
0.00
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements 
0.65
%
 
1 Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (the "Investment Adviser") has contractually agreed to reimburse Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding interest expenses, a portion of the Fund’s licensing fees, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes and extraordinary expenses such as litigation and other expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business) from exceeding 0.65% of average net assets per year (the“Expense Cap”), at least until December 31, 2017, and prior to such date the Investment Adviser may not terminate the arrangement without the approval of the Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 2 (the "Trust"). To the extent the Fund incurs expenses that are excluded from the Expense Cap, the Fund’s expense ratio will exceed the Expense Cap.
 
Example
 
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
One Year 
Three Years 
Five Years 
Ten Years 
$66
$262
$474
$1,085
 

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Portfolio Turnover
 
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 7% of the average value of its portfolio.
 
Principal Investment Strategies
 
The Fund, using a “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, seeks to replicate, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, the performance of the Water Index (Index Ticker: SPGTAQTR). At each rebalancing the Water Index is comprised of 50 equity securities selected, based on investment and other criteria, from a universe of companies listed on global developed market exchanges. Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies ("S&P"), generally defines “developed markets” as the capital markets of those countries with high levels of per capita income and strict market regulation resulting in greater transparency. Specifically, all or any subset of the following countries/regions are currently considered to be developed markets — Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The universe of companies includes all companies classified by Standard & Poor's Global Industry Classifications as being associated (in a manner representing a major component of such companies’ business) with the global demand for water, including water utilities, infrastructure, equipment, instruments and materials. Total market capitalization and float-adjusted market capitalization of securities in the Index must be at least $250 million and $100 million, respectively, at the time of each reconstitution, which includes small-, mid-, and large-capitalization securities as defined by S&P. The companies in the universe are selected using criteria as identified by S&P.
 
The Fund will invest at least 90% of its total assets in common stock and American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) that comprise the Index and depositary receipts representing common stocks included in the Index (or underlying securities representing ADRs included in the Index). The depositary receipts included in the Index may be sponsored or unsponsored. The Fund has adopted a policy that requires the Fund to provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this policy or the Index. The Board may change the Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval, except as otherwise indicated.

The Fund may invest directly in one or more underlying securities represented by the depositary receipts included in the Index under the following limited circumstances: (a) when market conditions result in the underlying security providing improved liquidity relative to the depositary receipt; (b) when a depositary receipt is trading at a significantly different price than its underlying security; or (c) the timing of trade execution is improved due to the local market in which an underlying security is traded being open at different times than the market in which the security’s corresponding depositary receipt is traded.
 
The Fund generally will invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Index in those weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the securities in the Index in proportions expected by the Investment Adviser to replicate generally the performance of the Index as a whole. There may also be instances, such as: (i) regulatory requirements which may affect the Fund’s ability to hold a security included in the Index, (ii) restrictions or requirements in local markets which may render it infeasible or inefficient for the Fund to purchase or sell a security included in the Index or (iii) liquidity concerns that may affect the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell a security included in the Index, in which the Investment Adviser may choose to overweight another security in the Index or purchase (or sell) securities not in the Index which the Investment Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for one or more Index components in seeking to accurately track the Index. In addition, from time to time securities are added to or removed from the Index. The Fund may sell securities that are represented in the Index or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index pursuant to scheduled reconstitutions and rebalancings of the Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of September 30, 2014, the industrials and utilities sectors each represented a substantial portion of the Index.
 

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Principal Investment Risks
 
Investors should consider the following risk factors and special considerations associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause you to lose money. The Fund’s Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund has not been guaranteed, sponsored, recommended, or approved by the United States, or any agency, instrumentality or officer of the United States, has not been insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is not guaranteed by and is not otherwise an obligation of any bank or insured depository institution.
 
Equity Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the industries in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific companies in which the Fund invests. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of equity securities of an issuer held by the Fund; the price of common stock of an issuer may be particularly sensitive to general movements in the stock market; or a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks and other equity securities held by the Fund. In addition, common stock of an issuer in the Fund’s portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because the issuer of the security experiences a decline in its financial condition. Common stock is subordinated to preferred stocks, bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure, in terms of priority to corporate income, and therefore will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of such issuers. In addition, while broad market measures of common stocks have historically generated higher average returns than fixed income securities, common stocks have also experienced significantly more volatility in those returns.
 
Water-Related Company Risk. Adverse developments related to water-related companies may significantly affect the value of the securities held by the Fund. In particular, water-related companies can be affected by technological changes, climactic events, environmental considerations, water conservation, taxes, government regulation and fluctuations of price and supply.
 
Industrials Sector Risk. The stock prices of companies in the industrials sector are affected by supply and demand both for their specific product or service and for industrials sector products in general. The products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological developments and frequent new product introduction. Government regulation, world events and economic conditions may affect the performance of companies in the industrials sector. Companies in the industrials sector may be at risk for environmental damage and product liability claims.
 
Utilities Sector Risk. The rates that traditional regulated utility companies may charge their customers generally are subject to review and limitation by governmental regulatory commissions. Although rate changes of a utility usually fluctuate in approximate correlation with financing costs due to political and regulatory factors, rate changes ordinarily occur only following a delay after the changes in financing costs. This factor will tend to favorably affect a regulated utility company’s earnings and dividends in times of decreasing costs, but conversely, will tend to adversely affect earnings and dividends when costs are rising. The value of regulated utility debt securities (and, to a lesser extent, equity securities) tends to have an inverse relationship to the movement of interest rates. Certain utility companies have experienced full or partial deregulation in recent years. These utility companies are frequently more similar to industrial companies in that they are subject to greater competition and have been permitted by regulators to diversify outside of their original geographic regions and their traditional lines of business. These opportunities may permit certain utility companies to earn more than their traditional regulated rates of return. Some companies, however, may be forced to defend their core business and may be less profitable.
 
Among the risks that may affect utility companies are the following: risks of increases in fuel and other operating costs; the high cost of borrowing to finance capital construction during inflationary periods; restrictions on operations and increased costs and delays associated with compliance with environmental and nuclear safety regulations; and the difficulties involved in obtaining natural gas for resale or fuel for generating electricity at reasonable prices. Other risks include those related to the construction and operation of nuclear power plants, the effects of energy conservation and the effects of regulatory changes.
 
Foreign Investment Risk. The Fund’s investments in non-U.S. issuers may involve unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including less market liquidity, generally greater market volatility than U.S.

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securities and less complete financial information than for U.S. issuers. In addition, adverse political, economic or social developments could undermine the value of the Fund’s investments or prevent the Fund from realizing the full value of its investments. Financial reporting standards for companies based in foreign markets differ from those in the United States. Finally, the value of the currency of the country in which the Fund has invested could decline relative to the value of the U.S. dollar, which may affect the value of the investment to U.S. investors. The Fund will not enter into transactions to hedge against declines in the value of the Fund’s assets that are denominated in a foreign currency.
 
Depositary Receipt Risk. The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies in the form of ADRs. ADRs are negotiable certificates issued by a U.S. financial institution that represent a specified number of shares in a foreign stock and trade on a U.S. national securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Sponsored ADRs are issued with the support of the issuer of the foreign stock underlying the ADRs and carry all of the rights of common shares, including voting rights. The underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not contractually obligated to disclose material information in the U.S. and, therefore, such information may not correlate to the market value of the unsponsored depositary receipt. The underlying securities of the ADRs in the Fund’s portfolio are usually denominated or quoted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. As a result, changes in foreign currency exchange rates may affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio. In addition, because the underlying securities of ADRs trade on foreign exchanges at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, the value of the securities underlying the ADRs may change materially at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, regardless of whether there is an active U.S. market for shares of the Fund.
 
Small and Medium-Sized Company Risk. Investing in securities of small and medium-sized companies involves greater risk than is customarily associated with investing in larger, more established companies. Securities of these companies present additional risks because their earnings are less predictable and they are more likely than larger companies to have narrower product lines, markets or financial resources. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of larger, more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall stock market.
 
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Index.
 
The Fund may not be fully invested at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions and expenses. If the Fund utilizes a sampling approach, or otherwise holds investments other than those which comprise the Index, its return may not correlate as well with the return of the Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the securities in the Index with the same weightings as the Index.
 
Concentration Risk. If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the Fund’s Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries.
 
Passive Management Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not “actively” managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble unless that security is removed from the Index. In addition, the Fund will not otherwise take defensive positions in declining markets unless such positions are reflected in the Index.
 
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a diversified fund.
 

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Fund Performance
 
The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year, five years and since inception compare with those of the Index and broad measures of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Fund is available at guggenheiminvestments.com.

 Calendar Year Total Return as of 12/31
The Fund commenced operations on May 14, 2007. The Fund’s year-to-date total return was 0.25% as of September 30, 2014 .
During the periods represented in the chart above, the Fund’s highest and lowest calendar quarter returns were 28.83% and -22.60% , respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008 .
 
All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of any state or local tax. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employee-sponsored retirement plans.

 
 
 
Since 

Average Annual Total Returns for the 
 
 
inception 

Periods Ended December 31, 2013
1 year 

5 Years 

5/14/2007

Returns Before Taxes 
26.19
%
16.24
%
4.33
 %
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 
25.36
%
15.51
%
3.36
 %
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 
14.82
%
12.78
%
2.88
 %
S&P Global Water Index
 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
26.70
%
16.65
%
4.92
 %
MSCI World Index
 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
26.68
%
15.02
%
2.81
 %
Dow Jones World Utilities Index
 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
12.34
%
1.61
%
-3.37
 %
 

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Management
 
Investment Adviser. Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC.
 
Portfolio Managers. The portfolio managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, James R. King, CFA, and Cindy Gao. Mr. Byrum, Senior Vice President, Mr. King, Portfolio Manager, and Ms. Gao, ETF Analyst, have managed the Fund’s portfolio since December 2013.
 
Purchase and Sale of Shares
 
The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in a large specified number of Shares called a “Creation Unit” or multiples thereof. A Creation Unit consists of 80,000 Shares. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units principally in-kind. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) and because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
 
Tax Information
 
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains.
 
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
 
If you purchase Shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Investment Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, the support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
 

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Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN)
 
Investment Objective
 
The Guggenheim Solar ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called the MAC Global Solar Energy Index (the “Solar Index” or the “Index”).
 
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
 
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors purchasing Shares in the secondary market may be subject to costs (including customary brokerage commissions) charged by their broker.
 
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year 
as a percentage of the value of your investment) 
 
Management Fees 
0.50
%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees
0.00
%
Other expenses 
0.26
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 
0.76
%
Expense reimbursements(1) 
0.05
%
Total annual Fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements 
0.71
%

1 Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (the "Investment Adviser") has contractually agreed to reimburse Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding interest expenses, a portion of the Fund’s licensing fees, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes and extraordinary expenses such as litigation and other expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business) from exceeding 0.65% of average net assets per year (the“Expense Cap”), at least until December 31, 2017, and prior to such date the Investment Adviser may not terminate the arrangement without the approval of the Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 2 (the "Trust"). For a period of five years subsequent to the Fund’s commencement of operations, the Investment Adviser may recover from the Fund expenses reimbursed during the prior three years if the Fund’s expense ratio, including the recovered expenses, falls below the Expense Cap. To the extent the Fund incurs expenses that are excluded from the Expense Cap, the Fund’s expense ratio will exceed the Expense Cap.
 
Example
 
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other funds. The Example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
 
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
One Year 
Three Years 
Five Years 
Ten Years 
$73
$281
$518
$1,199
 
Portfolio Turnover
 
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses

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or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 47% of the average value of its portfolio.
 
Principal Investment Strategies
 
The Fund, using a “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, seeks to replicate, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, the performance of the Solar Index (Index Ticker: SUNIDX). As of November 30, 2014, the Solar Index was comprised of approximately 27 securities selected based on the relative importance of solar power within the company’s business model, as determined by MAC Indexing LLC (“MAC” or the “Index Provider”). The market capitalizations of securities included in the Index range from approximately $111.5 million to approximately $14.6 billion. The Index is designed to track companies within the following business segments of the solar energy industry: companies that produce solar power equipment and products for end-users, companies that produce fabrication products (such as the equipment used by solar cell and module producers to manufacture solar power equipment) or services (such as companies specializing in the solar cell manufacturing or the provision of consulting services to solar cell and module producers) for solar power equipment producers, companies that supply raw materials or components to solar power equipment producers or integrators; companies that derive a significant portion of their business from solar power system sales, distribution, installation, integration or financing; and companies that specialize in selling electricity derived from solar power. The Index is comprised of equity securities, including American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”), traded in developed markets. The depositary receipts included in the Index may be sponsored or unsponsored. The Index Provider currently defines developed markets as the following countries – Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. While the equity securities comprising the Index are traded in developed markets, the issuers of such securities may be located in emerging markets. Emerging market countries are countries that major international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, generally consider to be less economically mature than developed nations. Emerging market countries can include every nation in the world except the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most countries located in Western Europe.
 
The Fund will invest at least 90% of its total assets in common stock, ADRs and GDRs that comprise the Index and depositary receipts representing common stocks included in the Index (or underlying securities representing ADRs and GDRs included in the Index). The Fund has adopted a policy that requires the Fund to provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this policy or the Index. The Board may change the Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval, except as otherwise indicated.
 
The Fund may invest directly in one or more underlying securities represented by the depositary receipts included in the Index under the following limited circumstances: (a) when market conditions result in the underlying security providing improved liquidity relative to the depositary receipt; (b) when a depositary receipt is trading at a significantly different price than its underlying security; or (c) the timing of trade execution is improved due to the local market in which an underlying security is traded being open at different times than the market in which the security’s corresponding depositary receipt is traded.
 
The Fund generally will invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Index in those weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the securities in the Index in proportions expected by the Investment Adviser to replicate generally the performance of the Index as a whole. There may also be instances, such as: (i) regulatory requirements which may affect the Fund’s ability to hold a security included in the Index, (ii) restrictions or requirements in local markets which may render it infeasible or inefficient for the Fund to purchase or sell a security included in the Index or (iii) liquidity concerns that may affect the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell a security included in the Index, in which the Investment Adviser may choose to overweight another security in the Index or purchase (or sell) securities not in the Index which the Investment Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for one or more Index components in seeking to accurately track the Index. In addition, from time to time securities are added to or removed from the Index. The Fund may sell securities that are represented in the Index or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index pursuant to scheduled reconstitutions and rebalancings of the Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of September 30, 2014, the information technology sector represented a substantial portion of the Index.

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Principal Investment Risks
 
Investors should consider the following risk factors and special considerations associated with investing in the Fund, which may cause you to lose money. The Fund’s Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective. An investment in the Fund has not been guaranteed, sponsored, recommended, or approved by the United States, or any agency, instrumentality or officer of the United States, has not been insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and is not guaranteed by and is not otherwise an obligation of any bank or insured depository institution.
 
Equity Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the industries in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific companies in which the Fund invests. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of equity securities of an issuer held by the Fund; the price of common stock of an issuer may be particularly sensitive to general movements in the stock market; or a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks and other equity securities held by the Fund. In addition, common stock of an issuer in the Fund’s portfolio may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because the issuer of the security experiences a decline in its financial condition. Common stock is subordinated to preferred stocks, bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure, in terms of priority to corporate income, and therefore will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred stocks or debt instruments of such issuers. In addition, while broad market measures of common stocks have historically generated higher average returns than fixed income securities, common stocks have also experienced significantly more volatility in those returns.
 
Solar Energy Company Risk.  The value of stocks that comprise the energy sector and the prices of energy may decline. The alternative energy industry can be significantly affected by obsolescence of existing technology, short product lifecycles, falling prices and profits, competition from new market entrants and general economic conditions. This industry can also be significantly affected by fluctuations in energy prices and supply and demand of alternative energy fuels, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects, tax incentives, subsidies and other government regulations and policies. Companies in this industry could be adversely affected by commodity price volatility, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources, technological developments and labor relations.

Solar energy companies are particularly affected by government subsidies and regulation. If government subsidies and economic incentives for solar power are reduced or eliminated, the demand for solar energy may decline and cause corresponding declines in the revenues and profits of solar energy companies. Existing regulations and policies, and changes to such regulations and policies, may present technical, regulatory and economic barriers to the purchase and use of solar power products, thus reducing demand for such products. If solar power technology is not suitable for widespread adoption, or sufficient demand for solar power products does not develop or takes long periods of time to develop, the revenues of solar power companies may decline.

In addition, solar energy companies have experienced an industry-wide shortage of polysilicon, which may place constraints on the revenue growth of solar energy companies and decrease such companies’ productivity. Solar energy companies may not be able to secure an adequate and cost-effective supply of solar wafers, cells or reclaimable silicon.

Information Technology Sector Risk. Competitive pressures may have a significant effect on the financial condition of companies in the information technology sector. Also, many of the products and services offered by information technology companies are subject to the risks of short product cycles and rapid obsolescence. Companies in the information technology sector also may be subject to competition from new market entrants. Such companies also may be subject to risks relating to research and development costs and the availability and price of components. As product cycles shorten and manufacturing capacity increases, these companies could become increasingly subject to aggressive pricing, which hampers profitability. Other risks include those related to regulatory changes, such as the possible adverse effects on profits of recent increased competition among telecommunications companies and the uncertainties resulting from such companies’ diversification into new domestic and international businesses, as well as agreements by any such companies linking future rate increases to inflation or other factors not directly related to the actual operating profits of the enterprise.


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Foreign Investment Risk. The Fund’s investments in non-U.S. issuers may involve unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers, including less market liquidity, generally greater market volatility than U.S. securities and less complete financial information than for U.S. issuers. In addition, adverse political, economic or social developments could undermine the value of the Fund’s investments or prevent the Fund from realizing the full value of its investments. Financial reporting standards for companies based in foreign markets differ from those in the United States. Finally, the value of the currency of the country in which the Fund has invested could decline relative to the value of the U.S. dollar, which may affect the value of the investment to U.S. investors. The Fund will not enter into transactions to hedge against declines in the value of the Fund’s assets that are denominated in a foreign currency.
Emerging market countries are countries that major international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, generally consider to be less economically mature than developed nations. Emerging market countries can include every nation in the world except the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most countries located in Western Europe. Investing in foreign countries, particularly emerging market countries, entails the risk that news and events unique to a country or region will affect those markets and their issuers. Countries with emerging markets may have relatively unstable governments, may present the risks of nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the repatriation of assets. The economies of emerging markets countries also may be based on only a few industries, making them more vulnerable to changes in local or global trade conditions and more sensitive to debt burdens or inflation rates. Local securities markets may trade a small number of securities and may be unable to respond effectively to increases in trading volume, potentially making prompt liquidation of holdings difficult or impossible at times. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent, and subject to sudden change.
 
Depositary Receipt Risk. The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies in the form of ADRs and GDRs. ADRs are negotiable certificates issued by a U.S. financial institution that represent a specified number of shares in a foreign stock and trade on a U.S. national securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Sponsored ADRs are issued with the support of the issuer of the foreign stock underlying the ADRs and carry all of the rights of common shares, including voting rights. GDRs are similar to ADRs, but may be issued in bearer form and are typically offered for sale globally and held by a foreign branch of an international bank. The underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not contractually obligated to disclose material information in the U.S. and, therefore, such information may not correlate to the market value of the unsponsored depositary receipt. The underlying securities of the ADRs and GDRs in the Fund’s portfolio are usually denominated or quoted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. As a result, changes in foreign currency exchange rates may affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio. In addition, because the underlying securities of ADRs and GDRs trade on foreign exchanges at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, the value of the securities underlying the ADRs and GDRs may change materially at times when the U.S. markets are not open for trading, regardless of whether there is an active U.S. market for shares of the Fund.
 
Small and Medium-Sized Company Risk. Investing in securities of small and medium-sized companies involves greater risk than is customarily associated with investing in larger, more established companies. Securities of these companies present additional risks because their earnings are less predictable and they are more likely than larger companies to have narrower product lines, markets or financial resources. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of larger, more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall stock market.
 
Micro-cap Company Risk. Micro-cap stocks involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations. Micro-cap companies may be newly formed or in the early stages of development, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources and may lack management depth. In addition, there may be less public information available about these companies. The shares of micro-cap companies tend to trade less frequently than those of larger, more established companies, which can adversely affect the pricing of these securities and the future ability to sell these securities. Also, it may take a long time before the Fund realizes a gain, if any, on an investment in a micro-cap company.
 

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Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Index.
 
The Fund may not be fully invested at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions and expenses. If the Fund utilizes a sampling approach, or otherwise holds investments other than those which comprise the Index, its return may not correlate as well with the return of the Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the securities in the Index with the same weightings as the Index.
 
Concentration Risk. If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of the Fund’s Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries.
 
Passive Management Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not “actively” managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble unless that security is removed from the Index. In addition, the Fund will not otherwise take defensive positions in declining markets unless such positions are reflected in the Index.
 
Issuer-Specific Changes. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole. The value of securities of smaller issuers can be more volatile than that of larger issuers.
 
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. Even though no single security weight may exceed 4.5% of the Index at the time of each quarterly rebalance, changes in the market value of the Index’s constituent securities may result in the Fund being invested in the securities of individual issuers (and making additional such investments in the case of creations of additional Creation Units) in greater proportions. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a diversified fund.
 
Fund Performance
 
The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year and since inception compare with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Fund is available at guggenheiminvestments.com.
 

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 Calendar Year Total Return as of 12/31
 
The Fund commenced operations on April 15, 2008. The Fund’s year-to-date total return was 15.91% as of September 30, 2014 .
During the periods shown in the chart above, the Fund’s highest and lowest calendar quarter returns were 46.97% and -54.60% , respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2013 and September 30, 2011 .
 
All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of any state or local tax. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employee-sponsored retirement plans.

 
 
 
Since 

Average Annual Total Returns for the 
 
 
inception 

Periods Ended December 31, 2013 
1 Year 

5 years

4/15/2008

Return Before Taxes 
129.86
%
-12.89
 %
-26.75
 %
Returns After Taxes on Distributions 
128.60
%
-14.00
 %
-27.58
 %
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 
73.50
%
-9.58
 %
-16.32
 %
MAC Global Solar Energy Index
 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
126.59
%
-14.62
 %
-27.62
 %
MSCI World Index
 
 
 
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 
26.68
%
15.02
 %
4.68
 %
 
Management
 
Investment Adviser. Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC.
 
Portfolio Managers. The portfolio managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, Senior Vice President, James R. King, CFA, Portfolio Manager, and Cindy Gao, ETF Analyst.  Messrs. Byrum and King have managed the Fund’s portfolio since December 2013. Ms. Gao has managed the Fund's portfolio since December 2014.


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Purchase and Sale of Shares
 
The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in a large specified number of Shares called a “Creation Unit” or multiples thereof. A Creation Unit consists of 80,000 Shares. The Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units principally in-kind. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) and because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV.
 
Tax Information
 
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains.
 
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
 
If you purchase Shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Investment Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, the support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
 
 

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Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Investment Strategies and Principal Investment Risks
 
Investment Objective
 
Each Fund’s investment objective is non-fundamental and may be changed by the Board without shareholder approval.
 
Index Methodology
 
AlphaShares China All Cap Index
 
The Index was created by AlphaShares and is designed to measure and monitor the performance of publicly issued common equity securities of publicly-traded companies based in mainland China. Proprietary and third-party financial and economic information and research are utilized to: (1) identify potential Index constituents and verify that such companies are based in mainland China; and (2) calculate the number of shares of each potential Index constituent outstanding, adjusted for free-float, for usage in the modified float-adjusted market capitalization weighting methodology. To ensure adequate liquidity, constituents must have a float-adjusted market capitalization of $500 million or greater for initial inclusion in the Index. A float-adjusted market capitalization of $400 million or greater is required for ongoing inclusion in the Index. The Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The AlphaShares Index Committee meets annually to review the Index methodology. Any changes to the methodology will be publicly disclosed at least 10 business days prior to implementation of the change.
 
AlphaShares China Technology Index
 
The Index was created by AlphaShares and is designed to measure and monitor the performance of publicly issued common equity securities of publicly-traded companies based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau in the GICS Information Technology Sector. Proprietary and third-party financial and economic information and research are utilized to: (1) identify potential Index constituents and verify that such companies are based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau; and (2) calculate the number of shares of each potential Index constituent outstanding, adjusted for free-float, for usage in the modified float-adjusted market capitalization weighting methodology. To ensure adequate liquidity, constituents must have a market capitalization of $200 million or greater for initial inclusion in the Index. A market capitalization of $150 million or greater at the time of each rebalance is required for ongoing inclusion in the Index. The Index is rebalanced semi-annually and reconstituted annually. The AlphaShares Index Committee meets annually to review the Index methodology. Any changes to the methodology will be publicly disclosed at least 10 business days prior to implementation of the change.

S&P Global Water Index
 
The Index is comprised of 50 securities selected based on the relative importance of the global water industry within the company’s business model. The Index is designed to have a balanced representation from different segments of the water industry consisting of the following two clusters: 25 water utilities and infrastructure companies (water supply, water utilities, waste water treatment, water, sewer and pipeline construction, water purification, water well drilling, water testing) and 25 water equipment and materials companies (water treatment chemicals, water treatment appliances, pumps and pumping equipment, fluid power pumps and motors, plumbing equipment, plumbing pipes, fluid meters and counting devices) based upon S&P’s Capital IQ (“CIQ”) business development and segment breakdown. To determine whether global demand for water is a major component of a company’s business, the Index Provider implements the following methodology:
 
1.
All companies in the CIQ database with the term “water” in their business are identified.
2.
From the resulting list, companies not belonging to the two clusters of the industry set forth earlier in this paragraph are excluded.
3.
Based on a review of CIQ business description and industry classification, are put into three groups:
Primary Set – Companies whose primary businesses are in the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 1.

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Secondary Set – Companies which operate in multiple industries, but have significant exposure to the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 0.5.
Eliminated Set – Companies with marginal exposure to the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 0 and eliminated from consideration as Index constituents.
 
To ensure investability, a developed market listing and a minimum total market capitalization and float-adjusted market capitalization of at least $250 million and $100 million, respectively, is required. The Index is rebalanced semi-annually. A maximum weight in the Index is set to 10% for each stock.
 
MAC Global Solar Energy Index
 
The Index is designed to track companies within the following business segments of the solar power industry: solar power equipment producers; suppliers of materials or services to solar equipment producers; companies that derive a significant portion of their business, measured by the methodology set forth below, from solar power system installation, integration or finance; and companies that specialize in selling electricity derived from solar power. As defined by the Index Provider, solar power includes two main categories:
 
1.
Solar photovoltaic power, which involves the conversion of sunlight into electricity through the photovoltaic process; and
2.
Thermal solar power, which involves using energy from the sun to heat fluids for purposes of water or space heating or to produce electricity.
 
As of November 30, 2014 , the Index was comprised of approximately 27 securities selected based upon the relative importance of solar power within the company’s business model. To determine whether solar power is a major component of a company’s business, the Index Provider implements the following methodology.

1.
All global publicly-traded companies with any connection to the solar industry are by company description database searches and bottom-up industry of publicly available information and databases.
2.
Based on a review of the company’s public filings and company description companies that are identified through the initial search are put into groups (the “Exposure Factor”):
Pure-Play Group—Companies that generate in excess of two thirds of their revenue from solar related business are considered to have their primary business in the solar industry and are placed in the Pure-Play Group. These are assigned an Exposure Factor of 1.0.
Medium-Play Group—Companies that operate in multiple industries, but have significant exposure to the solar industry-defined as generating less than approximately two thirds but more than approximately one third of their revenue from solar related business-are placed in the Medium-Play Group. These are assigned an Exposure Factor of 0.5.
Eliminated Group—Companies with marginal exposure to the solar industry-defined as generating less than approximately one third of their revenue from solar related business-are eliminated from consideration as an Index constituent.
3.
From the securities in the Pure-Play Group and Medium-Play Group, securities for inclusion in the Index that are not existing constituents of the Index be listed on a developed market exchange, as defined above, have a minimum capitalization greater than or equal to $150 million at the reference date each reconstitution and have a minimum 1 month average daily trading of $2 million at the reference date preceding each reconstitution. Securities in Pure-Play Group and Medium-Play Group set that do not meet these criteria are from consideration as an Index constituent. Securities that are already in Index are not subject to the minimum market capitalization and trading value to remain constituents of the Index.
 
Index Construction
 
AlphaShares China All Cap Index
 
Securities that meet the following criteria will be included in the Index:

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1.
Chinese Companies. Only companies based in mainland China are eligible for inclusion in the Index. For purposes of the Index, companies are considered to be based in mainland China if they are so classified under the S&P BMI Country Code classification system.
2.
Investability. To ensure adequate investability, only shares open to foreign ownership that meet the criteria below are eligible for inclusion:
a.
China A-shares are not eligible.
b.
China B-shares are not eligible.
c.
Hong Kong listed securities including China H-shares and Red Chips are eligible.
d.
N-Shares trading in New York and their equivalents trading in other foreign markets are eligible.
3.
Equity Securities. Only publicly issued common equity securities trading on a major exchange are eligible for inclusion in the Index. Debt or quasi-debt securities, such as convertible securities, are not eligible for inclusion.
4.
Depositary Receipts. ADRs, ADSs, GDRs and IDRs are eligible for inclusion in the Index.
5.
Market Capitalization. The Index will include equity securities of companies of all capitalizations, subject to the requirements below. To ensure adequate liquidity, constituents must have a float-adjusted market capitalization of $500 million or greater for initial inclusion in the Index. A float-adjusted market capitalization of $400 million or greater at the time of each rebalance is required for ongoing inclusion in the Index.
6.
Weighting Methodology. The Index uses a modified float-adjusted market capitalization weighting methodology to weight individual positions. At the time of each rebalance, the weight of any one sector (based on Standard & Poor's Global Industry Classification Standard) cannot be greater than 35% of the Index and the weight of any one position cannot be greater than 5.0% of the Index.
7.
Rebalancing. Except in unusual circumstances (including, but not limited to, mergers, spin-offs, delisting, tender offers or the acquisition or bankruptcy of the company), the Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. Initial public offerings that meet all the eligibility criteria and fall within the top twenty stocks by capitalization of the Index will be added. Any addition will be funded on a pro-rata basis from the remainder of the Index, net of any deletions.  A security will be deleted from the Index immediately due to bankruptcy, acquisition, delisting or merger of the company by or into another company, spin-offs, tender offers or other similar corporate actions. At each quarter end, any security which has been continuously suspended or halted since the prior quarter will be deleted from the index at zero value. In the case of such deletions, including any relisting of suspended securities, no replacements will be made until the annual rebalance. Any proceeds resulting from the deletions will be invested on a pro-rata basis over the remainder of the Index, net of any additions.
 
AlphaShares China Technology Index
 
Securities that meet the following criteria will be included in the Index:
 
1.
Chinese Companies.
a.
Companies based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau are eligible for inclusion in the Index. For purposes of the Index, companies are considered to be based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau if they are so classified under the S&P BMI Country Code classification system.
b.
In addition to the foregoing criteria, companies based in Hong Kong or Macau are only eligible for inclusion in the Index if they derive a majority of their revenue from mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau. If geographic revenue data is not available for these companies or is inconclusive, they cannot be included in the Index.
2.
Technology. Only companies in the GICS Information Technology Sector are eligible for inclusion in the Index.

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3.
Investability. To ensure adequate investability, only shares open to foreign ownership that meet the criteria below are eligible for inclusion:
a.
China A-shares are not eligible.
b.
China B-shares are not eligible.
c.
Hong Kong listed securities including China H-shares and Red Chips are eligible.
d.
N-Shares trading in New York and their equivalents trading in other foreign markets are eligible.
4.
Equity Securities. Only publicly issued common equity securities trading on a major exchange are eligible for inclusion in the Index. Debt or quasi-debt securities, such as convertible securities, are not eligible for inclusion.
5.
Depositary Receipts. ADRs, ADSs, GDRs and IDRs are eligible for inclusion in the Index if they meet the other eligibility criteria set forth in this section.
6.
Market Capitalization. The Index will include equity securities of companies of all categories of market capitalizations, subject to the requirements below. To ensure adequate liquidity, constituents must have a float-adjusted market capitalization of $200 million or greater for initial inclusion in the Index. A float-adjusted market capitalization of $150 million or greater at the time of each rebalance is required for ongoing inclusion in the Index.
7.
Target Weights. The Index uses a modified float-adjusted market capitalization weighting methodology to weight individual positions. The Index employs a two-tier weighting system with the target weight of any one position limited to a maximum of either 10.0% or 4.0% of the Index at the time of each rebalance. To determine the target weights, all positions whose float-cap adjusted weights are over 5% are added together. If the total is greater than 40%, then the highest weighted position is capped at 10%. The excess weight is then applied on a pro-rata basis to all the remaining Index constituents and the process is then repeated, if necessary, with the next largest stock being capped at 9% (8% and so on) until the 40% is reached. The 4.0% maximum target weight is then applied to all the remaining Index constituents. Once set, target weights are free to float due to market actions.
8.
Rebalancing. Except in unusual circumstances (including, but not limited to, delistings, mergers, spin-offs, or the acquisition or bankruptcy of the company), the Index is rebalanced semi-annually and reconstituted annually. The AlphaShares Index Committee will meet annually to review the Index methodology. Any changes to the methodology will be publicly disclosed at least 10 days prior to the implementation of the change. Initial public offerings that meet all the eligibility criteria and fall within the top twenty stocks by capitalization of the Index will be added. Any addition will be funded on a pro-rata basis from the remainder of the Index, net of any deletions. A security will be deleted from the Index immediately due to bankruptcy, acquisition, delisting or merger of the company by or into another company, spin-offs, tender offers or other similar corporate actions. At each quarter end, any security which has been continuously suspended or halted since the prior quarter will be deleted from the Index at zero value. In the case of such deletions, including any relisting of suspended securities, no replacements will be made until the annual rebalance. Any proceeds resulting from the deletions will be invested on a pro-rata basis over the remainder of the Index, net of any additions.
 
S&P Global Water Index
 
All companies in S&P’s CIQ industry classification involved in the water industry are identified by S&P Dow Jones’ Indices and scored based on relative exposure in the manner set forth above and classified into one of two clusters.
The companies are screened for those with a developed market listing and a total market capitalization and float-adjusted market capitalization of at least $250 million and $100 million, respectively.
25 of the largest companies from each of the following two clusters: water utilities and infrastructure companies and water equipment and materials companies, are selected based on a proprietary scoring metric that defines the relative exposure to the global water industry.

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The Index uses a modified market cap weighting methodology. No single stock may have a weight of more than 10%.
Companies that are acquired or delisted are deleted throughout the year. There are no intra-reconstitution additions.
The Index is reconstituted semi-annually effective after the close of business of the third Fridays of April and October of each year, with a reference date for the data being the third Friday of the previous March and September, respectively.

MAC Global Solar Energy Index

1.
The weighting of Index constituents on the rebalancing and reconstitution date is determined as follows:
a.
The full market capitalization for each security is multiplied by its Exposure Factor of either 1.0 and 0.5, meaning the market capitalization for the securities in the Pure-Play Group is taken at full value and for the Medium-Play Group is reduced by one half.
b.
The resulting adjusted market capitalizations are used to create a standard market capitalization weighted index with raw weighting factors.
c.
If necessary, the raw weighting factors are modified through a weighting-gap rebalancing algorithm to ensure that, at the time of rebalancing and reconstitution, no security in the Index has an individual weighting greater than 20% and that the aggregate weighting of securities in the Index with individual weightings of more than 4.5% is no more than 45.0% of the total Index. The weighting-gap rebalancing algorithm progressively reduces the weighting gap between adjacent securities, as ranked by their raw weighting factors, on a proportional basis, until the weighting parameters specified above are met.
2.
Any company in the Index that is acquired or delisted is removed from the Index at the time the event becomes effective, and will not be replaced. If a security is considered to be illiquid, or if a company has filed for bankruptcy, the security will be deleted from the Index immediately and will not be replaced. Any spin-off from an existing Index constituent may be included in the Index at the time of the spin-off.
3.
A company that recently completed an initial public offering (“IPO”) and that meets the criteria above can be considered for inclusion as an Index constituent only at the quarterly Index rebalance and reconstitution, and only after the security has completed at least one (1) month of trading history.
4.
Except in unusual circumstances (including, but not limited to, mergers, spin-offs, delisting, tender offers or the acquisition or bankruptcy of a company), the Index will  be rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly on the third Friday of the last month of each calendar quarter, with a reference date for the data being the first business day of the last month of the calendar quarter. At the quarterly Index reconstitution:
a.
securities may be added or deleted as Index constituents according to the criteria defined above,
b.
the Exposure Factor may change based on a shift in a company’s relative exposure to the solar industry, and
c.
constituent weightings may be adjusted to reflect a change in the Exposure Factor for a particular stock, the addition or deletion of Index constituents and/or the need to meet the specified diversification requirements.

Additional Information about Risks of Investing in China (Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF and Guggenheim China Technology ETF only)

Political and Economic Risk. The Chinese economy, which has been in a state of transition from a planned economy to a more market oriented economy, differs from the economies of most developed countries in many respects, including the level of government involvement, its state of development, its growth rate, control of foreign exchange, and allocation of resources. Although the majority of productive assets in China are still owned by the Chinese government at various levels, in recent years, the Chinese government has implemented economic reform measures emphasizing utilization of market forces in the development of the Chinese economy and a high level of management autonomy. The Chinese economy has experienced significant growth in the past 30 years, but growth

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has been uneven both geographically and among various sectors of the economy. Economic growth has also been accompanied by periods of high inflation. The Chinese government has implemented various measures from time to time to control inflation and restrain the rate of economic growth.

For more than 30 years, the Chinese government has carried out economic reforms to achieve decentralization and utilization of market forces to develop the Chinese economy. These reforms have resulted in significant economic growth and social progress. However, there can be no assurance that the Chinese government will continue to pursue such economic policies or that such policies, if pursued, will be successful. Any adjustment and modification of those economic policies may have an adverse impact on the securities market in China as well as the constituent securities of the Underlying Index. Further, the Chinese government may from time to time adopt corrective measures to control the growth of the Chinese economy which may also have an adverse impact on the capital growth and performance of the Funds.

Political changes, social instability and adverse diplomatic developments in China could result in the imposition of additional government restrictions including expropriation of assets, confiscatory taxes or nationalization of some or all of the property held by the issuers in the Underlying Index. The laws, regulations, government policies and political and economic climate in China may change with little or no advance notice. Any such change could adversely affect market conditions and the performance of the Chinese economy and, thus, the value of securities in a Fund’s portfolio.

The Chinese government continues to be an active participant in many economic sectors through ownership positions and regulation. The allocation of resources in China is subject to a high level of government control. The Chinese government strictly regulates the payment of foreign currency denominated obligations and sets monetary policy. Through its policies, the government may provide preferential treatment to particular industries or companies. The policies set by the government could have a substantial effect on the Chinese economy and a Fund’s investments.

The Chinese economy is export-driven and highly reliant on trade. The performance of the Chinese economy may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in such respects as growth of gross domestic product, rate of inflation, currency depreciation, capital reinvestment, resource self-sufficiency and balance of payments position. Adverse changes to the economic conditions of its primary trading partners, such as the European Union, the United States, Hong Kong, the Association of South East Asian Nations, and Japan, would adversely affect the Chinese economy and a Fund’s investments.

In addition, as much of China’s growth over the past two decades has been a result of significant investment in substantial export trade, international trade tensions may arise from time to time which can result in trade tariffs, embargoes, trade limitations, trade wars and other negative consequences. These consequences may trigger a significant reduction in international trade, the oversupply of certain manufactured goods, substantial price reductions of goods and possible failure of individual companies and/or large segments of China’s export industry with a potentially severe negative impact to a Fund. Events such as these are difficult to predict and may or may not occur in the future.

China has been transitioning to a market economy since the late seventies, and has only recently opened up to foreign investment and permitted private economic activity. Under the economic reforms implemented by the Chinese government, the Chinese economy has experienced tremendous growth, developing into one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world. There is no assurance, however, that the Chinese government will not revert to the economic policy of central planning that it implemented prior to 1978 or that such growth will be sustained in the future. Moreover, the current major slowdown in other significant economies of the world, such as the United States, the European Union and certain Asian countries, may adversely affect economic growth in China. An economic downturn in China would adversely impact a Fund’s investments.

Inflation. Economic growth in China has historically been accompanied by periods of high inflation. Beginning in 2004, the Chinese government commenced the implementation of various measures to control inflation, which included the tightening of the money supply, the raising of interest rates and more stringent control over certain industries. If these measures are not successful, and if inflation were to steadily increase, the performance of the Chinese economy and a Fund’s investments could be adversely affected.

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compensation. There can be no assurance that the Chinese government will not take similar actions in the future. Accordingly, an investment in the Funds involves a risk of a total loss.

Hong Kong Policy. As part of Hong Kong’s transition from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China agreed to allow Hong Kong to maintain a high degree of autonomy with regard to its political, legal and economic systems for a period of at least 50 years. China controls matters that relate to defense and foreign affairs. Under the agreement, China does not tax Hong Kong, does not limit the exchange of the Hong Kong dollar for foreign currencies and does not place restrictions on free trade in Hong Kong. However, there is no guarantee that China will continue to honor the agreement, and China may change its policies regarding Hong Kong at any time. Any such change could adversely affect market conditions and the performance of the Chinese economy and, thus, the value of securities in a Fund’s portfolio.

Available Disclosure about Chinese Companies. Disclosure and regulatory standards in emerging market countries, such as China, are in many respects less stringent than U.S. standards. There is substantially less publicly available information about Chinese issuers than there is about U.S. issuers. Therefore, disclosure of certain material information may not be made, and less information may be available to the Funds and other investors than would be the case if a Fund’s investments were restricted to securities of U.S. issuers. Chinese issuers are subject to accounting, auditing and financial standards and requirements that differ, in some cases significantly, from those applicable to U.S. issuers. In particular, the assets and profits appearing on the financial statements of a Chinese issuer may not reflect its financial position or results of operations in the way they would be reflected had such financial statements been prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Chinese Corporate and Securities Law. Legal principles relating to corporate affairs and the validity of corporate procedures, directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities and stockholders’ rights often differ from those that may apply in the United States and other countries. Chinese laws providing protection to investors, such as laws regarding the fiduciary duties of officers and directors, are undeveloped and will not provide investors, such as the Funds, with protection in all situations where protection would be provided by comparable law in the United States. China lacks a national set of laws that address all issues that may arise with regard to a foreign investor such as the Funds. It may therefore be difficult for a Fund to enforce its rights as an investor under Chinese corporate and securities laws, and it may be difficult or impossible for a Fund to obtain a judgment in court. Moreover, as Chinese corporate and securities laws continue to develop, these developments may adversely affect foreign investors, such as the Funds.

Sanctions and Embargoes. From time to time, certain of the companies in which the Funds expect to invest may operate in, or have dealings with, countries subject to sanctions or embargoes imposed by the U.S. government and the United Nations and/or countries identified by the U.S. government as state sponsors of terrorism. A company may suffer damage to its reputation if it is identified as a company which operates in, or has dealings with, countries subject to sanctions or embargoes imposed by the U.S. government and the United Nations and/or countries identified by the U.S. government as state sponsors of terrorism. As an investor in such companies, the Funds will be indirectly subject to those risks.

Non-Principal Investment Strategies
 
As non-principal investment strategies, each Fund may invest up to 20% (10% with respect to the Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF and Guggenheim Solar ETF) of its total assets in securities not included in its respective underlying Index, money market instruments (including repurchase agreements or money market funds), convertible securities, structured notes (notes on which the amount of principal repayment and interest payments are based on the movement of one or more specified factors, such as the movement of a particular stock or stock index), participation notes and in swaps, options and futures contracts. Swaps, options and futures contracts (and convertible securities, structured notes and participation notes) may be used by a Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to its respective underlying Index (whether by gaining exposure to the Index as a whole or to certain specific Index components in lieu of the Fund holding such Index components directly) and in managing cash flows, but will not be used for hedging purposes. The Funds will not invest in money market instruments as part of a temporary defensive strategy to protect against potential stock market declines. The Investment Adviser anticipates that it may take approximately five business days (i.e., each day the NYSE is open) for additions and deletions to each Fund’s Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Fund.
 

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Each Fund may borrow money from a bank up to a limit of 10% of the value of its assets, but only for temporary or emergency purposes.
 
The Funds may lend their portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions desiring to borrow securities to complete transactions and for other purposes. In connection with such loans, the Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% of the value of the portfolio securities being lent. This collateral is marked to market on a daily basis. Each Fund may lend its portfolio securities in an amount up to 33 1 / 3 % of its assets. Securities lending is not a principal investment strategy of the Funds.
 
The policies described herein constitute non-fundamental policies that may be changed by the Board without shareholder approval. Certain fundamental and other non-fundamental policies of the Funds are set forth in the Statement of Additional Information under “Investment Restrictions.”

Non-Principal Risk Considerations
 
In addition to the principal risks described previously, there are certain non-principal risks related to investing in the Funds.
 
Derivatives Risk. A derivative is a financial contract, whose value depends on, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset such as a security or index. A Fund may invest in certain types of “over-the-counter” derivatives contracts, including futures, options and swaps. Compared to conventional securities, derivatives can be more sensitive to changes in interest rates or to sudden fluctuations in market prices and thus a Fund’s losses may be greater if it invests in derivatives. Specific risks relating to a Fund’s investments in derivatives are set forth below:
 
Futures Risk. While a Fund may benefit from the use of futures, unanticipated changes in interest rates, securities prices or currency exchange rates may result in poorer overall performance than if the Fund had not entered into any futures contracts. Because perfect correlation between a futures position and an Index position that is intended to be simulated is impossible to achieve, the desired protection may not be obtained and a Fund may be exposed to additional risk of loss. The loss incurred by a Fund in entering into futures contracts is potentially unlimited and may exceed the amount invested. Even a well-conceived futures transaction may be unsuccessful due to market events. Futures markets are highly volatile and the use of futures may increase the volatility of a Fund’s NAV. As a result of the low margin deposits normally required in futures trading, a relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result in substantial losses to a Fund. Futures contracts may be illiquid, and exchanges may limit fluctuations in futures contract prices during a single day. Foreign exchanges may not provide the same protection as U.S. exchanges.
 
Options Risk. The buyer of an American option acquires the right to buy (a call option) or sell (a put option) a certain quantity of a security (the underlying security) or instrument at a certain price up to a specified point in time. The buyer of a European option acquires the right to buy (a European call option) or sell (a European put option) a certain quantity of a security (the underlying security) or instrument at a certain price only on the option expiration date. The seller or writer of the option is obligated to sell (a call option) or buy (a put option) the underlying security. All options written (sold) by a Fund will be covered. When writing (selling) call options on securities or a securities index, a Fund may cover its positions by owning the underlying security or securities on which the option is written or by owning a call option on the underlying security (or, in the case of options on a securities index, by owning securities whose price changes are expected to be equal to those of the securities in the index). Alternatively, a Fund may cover its positions by maintaining, in a segregated account, cash or liquid securities equal in value to the exercise price of the call options written by the Fund. When a Fund writes (sells) an option, if the underlying securities do not increase or decrease to a price level that would make the exercise of the option profitable to the holder thereof, the option generally will expire without being exercised and the Fund will realize as profit the premium received for such option. When a covered call option which a Fund writes (sells) is exercised, the Fund will be required to sell the underlying securities to the option holder at the strike price, and will not participate in any increase in the price of such securities above the strike price. When a covered put option which a Fund writes (sells) is exercised, the Fund will be required to purchase the underlying securities at a price in excess of the market value of such securities. A decision as to whether, when and how to use options involves the exercise of skill and judgment and even a well conceived option transaction may be unsuccessful because of market behavior or unexpected events. The prices of options can be highly volatile and the use of options can lower total returns. There may be an imperfect correlation between the movement in prices of options and the securities underlying them. There may not be a liquid secondary market for options.

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Swaps Risk. An over-the-counter swap is a two-party contract that generally obligates one party to pay the positive return and the other party to pay the negative return on a specified reference security, basket of securities, security index or index component. Swaps can involve greater risks than direct investment in securities, because swaps may be leveraged and are subject to counterparty risk (e.g., the risk of a counterparty’s defaulting on the obligation or bankruptcy), credit risk and pricing risk (i.e., swaps may be difficult to value). Swaps may also be considered illiquid. It may not be possible for a Fund to liquidate a swap position at an advantageous time or price, which may result in significant losses. The swaps market is subject to extensive regulation under the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and certain SEC and CFTC rules promulgated thereunder. It is possible that developments in the swaps market, including new and additional government regulation, could result in higher Fund costs and expenses and could adversely affect a Fund’s ability, among other things, to terminate existing swap agreements or to realize amounts to be received under such agreements.
 
Participation Notes. Participation notes are issued by banks or broker-dealers and are designed to offer a return linked to the performance of a particular underlying equity security or market. Participation notes can have the characteristics or take the form of various instruments, including, but not limited to, certificates or warrants. The holder of a participation note that is linked to a particular underlying security is entitled to receive any dividends paid in connection with the underlying security. However, the holder of a participation note generally does not receive voting rights as it would if it directly owned the underlying security. A Fund may invest in a participation note as an alternative to investing directly in the underlying security, in circumstances where the Investment Adviser determines that investing in the participation note will enable the Fund to track its Index more efficiently (such as where, in the Investment Adviser’s determination, the participation note offers greater liquidity than the underlying security and/or may reduce the Fund’s tracking error against its Index due to additional costs involved with holding the underlying security directly).
 
Participation notes constitute direct, general and unsecured contractual obligations of the banks or broker-dealers that issue them, which therefore subject a Fund to counterparty risk, as discussed below.
 
Investments in participation notes involve certain risks in addition to those associated with a direct investment in the underlying foreign companies or foreign securities markets whose return they seek to replicate. For instance, there can be no assurance that the trading price of a participation note will equal the underlying value of the foreign company or foreign securities market that it seeks to replicate. As the purchaser of a participation note, a Fund is relying on the creditworthiness of the counterparty issuing the participation note and has no rights under a participation note against the issuer of the underlying security. Therefore, if such counterparty were to become insolvent, a Fund would lose its investment. The risk that a Fund may lose its investments due to the insolvency of a single counterparty may be amplified to the extent the Fund purchases participation notes issued by one issuer or a small number of issuers. Participation notes also include transaction costs in addition to those applicable to a direct investment in securities. In addition, a Fund’s use of participation notes may cause the Fund’s performance to deviate from the performance of the portion of its Index to which the Fund is gaining exposure through the use of participation notes.
 
Due to liquidity and transfer restrictions, the secondary markets on which participation notes are traded may be less liquid than the markets for other securities, which may lead to the absence of readily available market quotations for securities in a Fund’s portfolio. The ability of a Fund to value its securities becomes more difficult and the judgment in the application of fair value procedures may play a greater role in the valuation of the Fund’s securities due to reduced availability of reliable objective pricing data. Consequently, while such determinations will be made in good faith, it may nevertheless be more difficult for a Fund to accurately assign a daily value to such securities.
 
Trading Issues. Trading in Shares on the NYSE Arca may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the NYSE Arca, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the NYSE Arca is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the NYSE Arca “circuit breaker” rules. If a trading halt or unanticipated early closing of the NYSE Arca occurs, a shareholder may be unable to purchase shares of a Fund. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the NYSE Arca necessary to maintain the listing of the Funds will continue to be met or will remain unchanged.
 
Fluctuation of NAV. The NAV of a Fund’s Shares will generally fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The market prices of the Shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV as well as the relative supply of and demand for the Shares on the NYSE Arca. The Investment Adviser cannot predict

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whether the Shares will trade below, at or above their NAV. Price differences may be due, in large part, to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for the Shares will be closely related to, but not identical to, the same forces influencing the prices of the securities of the Index trading individually or in the aggregate at any point in time.
 
However, given that the Shares can be purchased and redeemed in Creation Units (unlike shares of many closed-end funds, which frequently trade at appreciable discounts from, and sometimes premiums to, their NAV), the Investment Adviser believes that large discounts or premiums to the NAV of the Shares should not be sustained for long.
 
Securities Lending. Although a Fund will receive collateral in connection with all loans of its securities holdings, the Fund would be exposed to a risk of loss should a borrower default on its obligation to return the borrowed securities (e.g., the loaned securities may have appreciated beyond the value of the collateral held by the Fund). In addition, the Fund will bear the risk of loss of any cash collateral that it invests.
 
Leverage. To the extent that a Fund borrows money in the limited circumstances described above under “Non-Principal Investment Strategies,” it may be leveraged. Leveraging generally exaggerates the effect on NAV of any increase or decrease in the market value of the Fund’s portfolio securities.
 
Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings
 
A description of the Trust’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds’ portfolio securities is available in the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information.

Investment Management Services
 
Investment Adviser
 
Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (the “Investment Adviser”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guggenheim Funds Services, LLC, (“Guggenheim Funds Services”), acts as the Funds’ investment adviser pursuant to an advisory agreement with the Trust (the “Advisory Agreement”). The Investment Adviser is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal offices located at 227 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Guggenheim Funds Distributors, LLC (the "Distributor”), an affiliate of the Investment Adviser, currently offers exchange-traded funds, unit investment trusts and closed-end funds. Guggenheim Funds Services is a subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners, LLC (“Guggenheim”), a global, diversified financial services firm with more than $186 billion in assets under supervision as of June 30, 2014. Guggenheim, through its affiliates, provides investment management, investment advisory, insurance, investment banking and capital markets services. Guggenheim Investments represents the investment management division of Guggenheim. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and New York with a global network of offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Investment Adviser manages the investment and reinvestment of the Fund’s assets and administers the affairs of the Fund to the extent requested by the Board. The Investment Adviser also acts as investment adviser to closed-end and open-end management investment companies.

Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, each of the following Funds pays the Investment Adviser an advisory fee for the services and facilities it provides payable on a monthly basis at the annual rate of the Fund’s average daily net assets set forth in the chart below.
Fund 
Fee 
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF 
0.50%
Guggenheim Solar ETF 
0.50%
 
Pursuant to an expense reimbursement agreement (the “Expense Agreement”) entered into between the Trust and the Investment Adviser, the Investment Adviser has agreed to pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of each of the above listed Funds (excluding interest expenses, a portion of the Fund’s licensing fees, offering costs (up to 0.25% of the average net assets of the Guggenheim Solar ETF), brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes and extraordinary expenses such as litigation and other

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expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of each Fund’s business) from exceeding 0.65% of average daily assets per year (the “Expense Cap”), at least until December 31, 2017 , and prior to such date the Investment Adviser may not terminate the arrangement without the approval of the Board . The offering costs excluded from the 0.65% Expense Cap are: (a) legal fees pertaining to each Fund’s Shares offered for sale; (b) SEC and state registration fees; and (c) initial fees paid to be listed on an exchange. For a period of five years subsequent to each Fund’s commencement of operations, the Investment Adviser may recover from each of the Funds expenses reimbursed during the prior three years if the Fund’s expense ratio, including the recovered expenses, falls below the Expense Cap. To the extent the Fund incurs expenses that are excluded from the Expense Cap, the Fund’s expense ratio will increase.
 
In addition to advisory fees, each Fund listed above pays all other costs and expenses of its operations, including service fees, distribution fees, custodian fees, legal and independent registered public accounting firm fees, the costs of reports and proxies to shareholders, compensation of Independent Trustees and all other ordinary business expenses not specifically assumed by the Investment Adviser.
 
Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, each of the following Funds pays the Investment Adviser a unitary management fee for the services and facilities it provides, payable on a monthly basis at the annual rate of the Fund’s average daily net assets set forth in the chart below:
Fund 
Fee 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF 
0.70%
Guggenheim China Technology ETF 
0.70%
 
Out of the unitary management fee, the Investment Adviser pays substantially all expenses of each of the above listed Funds, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, except for the fee payments under the Advisory Agreement, distribution fees, if any, brokerage expenses, taxes, interest, litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses (such as expenses relating to a meeting of the applicable Fund’s shareholders).
 
The Investment Adviser’s unitary management fee is designed to pay each Fund’s expenses and to compensate the Investment Adviser for providing services for each Fund.
 
Approval of Advisory Agreement
 
A discussion regarding the basis for the Board’s approval of the continuance of the Advisory Agreement in 2014 is available in the annual report to shareholders dated August 31, 2014.

Portfolio Managers
 
The Portfolio Managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF and Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF’s portfolios are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, James R. King, CFA, and Cindy Gao.  Mr. Byrum, Mr. King and Ms. Gao have managed those Funds’ portfolios since December 2013. The Portfolio Managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of Guggenheim China Technology ETF and Guggenheim Solar ETF’s portfolios are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, James R. King, CFA, and Cindy Gao. Messrs. Byrum and King have managed those Funds' portfolios since December 2013. Ms. Gao has managed those Funds' portfolios since December 2014.
 
Mr. Byrum is a Senior Vice President of Guggenheim Investments and joined Guggenheim Investments in 1993. He has ultimate responsibility for the management of the Funds. In addition to generally overseeing all aspects of the management of several other funds in the Guggenheim Investments fund complex, Mr. Byrum reviews the activities of the portfolio managers of the Funds. During his time at Guggenheim Investments, he has played a key role in the development of the firm’s investment strategies and product offerings. As Portfolio Manager, Mr. Byrum was instrumental in the launch of several funds in the Guggenheim Investments fund complex, including the NASDAQ-100®, Precious Metals, Government Long Bond 1.2x Strategy, Inverse Government Long Bond Strategy, Inverse S&P 500 Strategy and Inverse NASDAQ-100® Strategy Funds, and helped to create the Sector Funds. He was named Vice President of Guggenheim Investments in 1998, and Executive Vice President in 2000. Prior to joining Guggenheim Investments, Mr. Byrum worked for Money Management Associates, the investment

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adviser for Rushmore Funds, Inc. He holds a degree in finance from Miami University of Ohio and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Washington Society of Investment Analysts.
 
Mr. King is a Portfolio Manager of Guggenheim Investments and rejoined Guggenheim Investments in 2011 as the lead portfolio manager for exchange-traded products. In the interval between 2008 and 2011, he served as special consultant to a pair of hedge funds ventures, one focused on long-short equity and the other on market neutral statistical arbitrage. Prior to that, he served in a variety of roles for Guggenheim Investments ranging from shareholder services representative to portfolio manager and director of trading. At the time of his departure in 2008, he was director of portfolio management, overseeing a suite of trader-friendly mutual funds with nearly $15 billion in assets. Mr. King holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland, and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He has been quoted in several publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and BusinessWeek. He has also been a speaker at several industry events, discussing ETFs, trading strategies, index construction, and trader-friendly mutual funds.
 
Ms. Gao is an ETF Analyst in ETF Portfolio Management of Guggenheim Investments and joined Guggenheim Investments in December 2010. Prior to joining Guggenheim Investments, Ms. Gao served as an analyst at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois from 2008-2010. Ms. Gao received a M.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  
The Statement of Additional Information provides additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation structure, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and the portfolio managers’ ownership of securities of the Funds.

Purchase and Redemption of Shares
 
General
 
The Shares are issued or redeemed by the Funds at net asset value per Share only in Creation Unit size.
 
Most investors buy and sell Shares of the Funds in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Funds are listed and traded on the secondary market on the NYSE Arca. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment. Although Shares are generally purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 Shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per-Share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction. The Funds trade on the NYSE Arca at prices that may differ to varying degrees from the daily NAV of the Shares. Given that each Fund’s Shares can be issued and redeemed in Creation Units, the Investment Adviser believes that large discounts and premiums to NAV should not be sustained for long. The Funds trade under the NYSE Arca symbols set forth in the chart below.
Name of Fund
NYSE Arca Ticker Symbol
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF
YAO
Guggenheim China Technology ETF
CQQQ
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF
CGW
Guggenheim Solar ETF
TAN
 
Each Fund may liquidate and terminate at any time without shareholder approval.
 
Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share.

Investors may acquire Shares directly from the Funds, and shareholders may tender their Shares for redemption directly to the Funds, only in Creation Units of the applicable number of Shares as set forth in the table below. In certain circumstances, a Fund may restrict or reject a creation or redemption order, and notify a shareholder of such restriction or rejection, as described in “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information and in the Funds’ authorized participant agreement.
 

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Fund 
Creation Unit Size 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF 
100,000
Guggenheim China Technology ETF 
50,000
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF 
80,000
Guggenheim Solar ETF 
80,000
 
Book Entry
 
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares of the Funds and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for all purposes. Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other stocks that you may hold in book entry or “street name” form.

How to Buy and Sell Shares
 
Pricing Fund Shares
 
The trading price of each Fund’s shares on the NYSE Arca may differ from the Fund’s daily net asset value and can be affected by market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors.
 
The NYSE Arca disseminates the approximate value of Shares of the Funds every fifteen seconds. The approximate value calculations are based on local closing prices and may not reflect events that occur subsequent to the local market’s close. As a result, premiums and discounts between the approximate value and the market price could be affected. This approximate value should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share of the Funds because the approximate value may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day. The Funds are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the approximate value and the Funds do not make any warranty as to its accuracy.
 
The net asset value per Share for each Fund is determined once daily as of the close of the NYSE, usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, each day the NYSE is open for trading. Shares will not be priced on regular national holidays or other days on which the NYSE is closed. NAV per Share is determined by dividing the value of each Fund’s portfolio securities, cash and other assets (including accrued interest), less all liabilities (including accrued expenses), by the total number of shares outstanding.
 
Equity securities are valued at the last reported sale price on the principal exchange or on the principal OTC market on which such securities are traded, as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE on the day the securities are being valued or, if there are no sales, at the mean of the most recent bid and asked prices. Equity securities that are traded primarily on the NASDAQ Stock Market are valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price.
 
Debt securities are valued using information from financial intermediaries or a third-party pricing service, and such values are set at the mean between the last available bid and ask prices for such securities or, if such prices are not available, at prices for securities of comparable maturity, quality, and type, or other equivalent indications of value. Short-term securities for which market quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
Securities for which market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable, including restricted securities, are valued by the Investment Adviser using a method that the Investment Adviser believes accurately reflects fair value, pursuant to policies adopted by the Board and subject to the ultimate supervision of the Board . Securities will be valued at fair value when market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable, such as when a security’s value or a meaningful portion of a Fund’s portfolio is believed to have been materially

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affected by a significant event. Such events may include a natural disaster, an economic event like a bankruptcy filing, a trading halt in a security, an unscheduled early market close or a substantial fluctuation in domestic and foreign markets that has occurred between the close of the principal exchange and the NYSE. In such a case, the value for a security is likely to be different from the last quoted market price. In addition, due to the subjective and variable nature of fair market value pricing, it is possible that the value determined for a particular asset may be materially different from the value realized upon such asset’s sale.
 
Trading in securities on many foreign securities exchanges and over-the-counter markets is normally completed before the close of business on each U.S. business day. In addition, securities trading in a particular country or countries may not take place on all U.S. business days or may take place on days that are not U.S. business days. Changes in valuations on certain securities may occur at times or on days on which a Fund’s net asset value is not calculated and on which the Funds do not effect sales, redemptions and exchanges of their Shares.
 
Creation Units
 
Investors such as market makers, large investors and institutions who wish to deal in Creation Units directly with the Funds must have entered into an authorized participant agreement with the distributor, or purchase through a dealer that has entered into such an agreement. Set forth below is a brief description of the procedures applicable to purchase and redemption of Creation Units. For more detailed information, see “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.
 
How to Buy Shares
 
In order to purchase Creation Units of a Fund, an investor must generally deposit a designated portfolio of equity securities constituting a substantial replication, or a representation, of the securities included in the Index (the“Deposit Securities”) and generally make a small cash payment referred to as the“Cash Component.”For those Authorized Participants (as defined below) that are not eligible for trading a Deposit Security, custom orders are available. The list of the names and the amounts of shares of the Deposit Securities is made available by the Funds’ custodian through the facilities of the National Securities Clearing Corporation, commonly referred to as NSCC, immediately prior to the opening of business each day of the NYSE Arca. The Cash Component represents the difference between the net asset value of a Creation Unit and the market value of the Deposit Securities. In the case of custom orders, cash-in-lieu may be added to the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Securities that the Authorized Participant (as defined below) may not be eligible to trade.
 
Orders must be placed by or through a participant of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC Participant”) that has entered into an agreement with the Trust, the distributor and the transfer agent, with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units (collectively, “Authorized Participant” or “AP”) and must be in proper form pursuant to the requirements regarding submission and logistics set forth in such agreement. See “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information. All standard orders must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units of Shares of each Fund and must be received by the distributor in proper form no later than the close of regular trading on the NYSE Arca (ordinarily 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) (“Closing Time”) in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. In the case of certain custom orders placed at the request of the AP and as further described in the Statement of Additional Information, the order must be received by the distributor no later than one hour prior to Closing Time in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. A custom order may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Trust permits or requires the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Security which may not be available in sufficient quantity for delivery or which may not be eligible for trading by such Authorized Participant or the investor for which it is acting or any other relevant reason. See “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.
 

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The following fixed creation transaction fees per transaction for the Funds (the “Creation Transaction Fee”) set forth in the table below are applicable to each transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units purchased in the transaction.
Fund 
Fixed Creation Transaction Fees 
 
(Per Transaction) 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF 
$3,000
Guggenheim China Technology ETF 
$500
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF 
$500
Guggenheim Solar ETF 
$500
 
An additional variable charge for cash creations or partial cash creations may also be imposed to compensate the Funds for the costs associated with buying the applicable securities. The Funds may adjust these fees from time to time based on actual experience.
 
The Funds reserve the right to effect creations in cash. A shareholder may request a cash creation in lieu of securities, however, the Fund may, in its discretion, reject any such request.
 
See “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information. The price for each Creation Unit will equal the daily NAV per Share times the number of Shares in a Creation Unit plus the fees described above and, if applicable, any transfer taxes.
 
Shares of each Fund may be issued in advance of receipt of all Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Trust cash at least equal to 115% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.
 
Legal Restrictions on Transactions in Certain Securities
 
An investor subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular security required to be deposited in connection with the purchase of a Creation Unit may, at a Fund’s discretion, be permitted to deposit an equivalent amount of cash in substitution for any security which would otherwise be included in the Deposit Securities applicable to the purchase of a Creation Unit. For more details, see “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.

Redemption of Shares
 
Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Units at their NAV and only on a day the NYSE Arca is open for business. The Funds’ custodian makes available immediately prior to the opening of business each day of the NYSE Arca, through the facilities of the NSCC, the list of the names and the numbers of shares of the Funds’ portfolio securities that will be applicable that day to redemption requests in proper form (“Fund Securities”). Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities, which are applicable to purchases of Creation Units. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a Fund, the redemption proceeds consist of the Fund Securities, plus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of Shares being redeemed as next determined after receipt by the transfer agent of a redemption request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less the applicable redemption fee and, if applicable, any transfer taxes. Should the Fund Securities have a value greater than the NAV of Shares being redeemed, a compensating cash payment to the Trust equal to the differential, plus the applicable redemption fee and, if applicable, any transfer taxes will be required to be arranged for, by or on behalf of the redeeming shareholder. For more details, see “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.
 
An order to redeem Creation Units of the Fund may only be effected by or through an Authorized Participant. An order to redeem must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units and must be received by the transfer agent in proper form no later than the Closing Time in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. In the case of custom orders, placed at the request of the AP and as further described in the Statement of Additional Information, the order must be received by the transfer agent no later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern time.

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The following fixed redemption transaction fees per transaction for each Fund (the “Redemption Transaction Fee”) set forth in the table below are applicable to each redemption transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units redeemed in the transaction.
Fund 
Fixed Redemption Transaction Fees 
 
(Per Transaction) 
Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF 
$3,000
Guggenheim China Technology ETF 
$500
Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF 
$500
Guggenheim Solar ETF 
$500
 
An additional variable charge for cash redemptions or partial cash redemptions may also be imposed to compensate the Funds for the costs associated with selling the applicable securities. The Funds may adjust these fees from time to time based on actual experience.
 
The Funds reserve the right to effect redemptions in cash. A shareholder may request a cash redemption or partial cash redemption in lieu of securities, however, a Fund may, in its discretion, reject any such request. See “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the Statement of Additional Information.

Distributions
 
Dividends and Capital Gains. Fund shareholders are entitled to their share of a Fund’s income and net realized gains on its investments. Each Fund pays out substantially all of its net earnings to its shareholders as “distributions.”
 
Each Fund typically earns income dividends from stocks and may earn interest from debt securities. These amounts, net of expenses, are passed along to Fund shareholders as “income dividend distributions.” Each Fund realizes capital gains or losses whenever it sells securities. Net long-term capital gains are distributed to shareholders as “capital gain distributions.”
 
Income dividends, if any, are distributed to shareholders annually. Net capital gains are distributed at least annually. Dividends may be declared and paid more frequently to improve Index tracking or to comply with the distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Some portion of each distribution may result in a return of capital. Fund shareholders will be notified regarding the portion of the distribution that represents a return of capital.
 
Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through which the Shares were purchased makes such option available.
 
Distribution and Service Plan
 
The Board has adopted a distribution and service plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). Under the Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay distribution fees in connection with the sale and distribution of its shares and pay service fees in connection with the provision of ongoing services to shareholders and the maintenance of shareholder accounts in an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year.
 
No 12b-1 fees are currently paid by the Funds, and there are no current plans to impose these fees. In addition, no such fee may be paid in the future without further approval by the Board and the Board has adopted a resolution that no such fee will be paid for at least 12 months from the date of this prospectus. However, in the event 12b-1 fees are charged in the future, because these fees are paid out of a Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, these fees will increase the cost of your investment in the Fund. By purchasing shares subject to distribution fees and service fees, you may pay more over time than you would by purchasing shares with other types of sales charge arrangements. Long-term shareholders may pay more than the economic equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted by the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The net income attributable to the Shares will be reduced by the amount of distribution fees and service fees and other expenses of the Funds.

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The Investment Adviser or its affiliates may make payments to broker-dealers, banks or other financial intermediaries (together, “intermediaries”) related to marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, the support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems, or their making shares of the Funds and certain other Guggenheim Funds ETFs available to their customers. Such payments, which may be significant to the intermediary, are not made by a Fund. Rather, such payments are made by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates from their own resources, which come directly or indirectly in part from fees paid by the Guggenheim Funds ETF complex. Payments of this type are sometimes referred to as revenue-sharing payments. A financial intermediary may make decisions about which investment options it recommends or makes available, or the level of services provided, to its customers based on the revenue-sharing payments it is eligible to receive. Therefore, such payments to an intermediary create conflicts of interest between the intermediary and its customers and may cause the intermediary to recommend a Fund or other Guggenheim Funds ETFs over another investment. More information regarding these payments is contained in the Funds’ SAI. Please contact your salesperson or other investment professional for more information regarding any such payments his or her firm may receive from the Investment Adviser or its affiliates.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions
 
The Funds impose no restrictions on the frequency of purchases and redemptions. The Board evaluated the risks of market timing activities by the Funds’ shareholders when they considered that no restriction or policy was necessary. The Board considered that, unlike traditional mutual funds, each Fund issues and redeems its Shares at NAV for a basket of securities intended to mirror that Fund’s portfolio, plus a small amount of cash, and a Fund’s Shares may be purchased and sold on the exchange at prevailing market prices. Given this structure, the Board determined that it is unlikely that (a) market timing would be attempted by each Fund’s shareholders or (b) any attempts to market time a Fund by its shareholders would result in negative impact to the Fund or its shareholders.

Fund Service Providers
 
Rydex Fund Services, LLC, an affiliate of the Investment Adviser, is the administrator of the Funds.
 
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY Mellon”) is the custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent for the Funds.
 
Dechert LLP serves as legal counsel to the Funds.
 
Ernst & Young LLP serves as each Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm. The independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for auditing the annual financial statements of the Funds and performs other audit-related and tax services.

Index Providers
 
AlphaShares is the Index Provider for the Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF and Guggenheim China Technology ETF. AlphaShares is not affiliated with the Trust, the Investment Adviser or the distributor. The Investment Adviser has entered into a license agreement with AlphaShares to use the Index. Each Fund is entitled to use its respective Index pursuant to a sub-licensing arrangement with the Investment Adviser.
 
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. is the Index Provider for the Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF. Standard & Poor's is not affiliated with the Trust, the Investment Adviser or the distributor. The Investment Adviser has entered into a license agreement with Standard & Poor's to use the Index. The Fund is entitled to use the Index pursuant to a sub-licensing arrangement with the Investment Adviser.
 
MAC is the Index Provider for the Guggenheim Solar Energy ETF. MAC is not affiliated with the Trust, the Investment Adviser or the distributor. The Investment Adviser has entered into a license agreement with the Index Provider to use the Index. The Fund is entitled to use the Index pursuant to a sub-licensing arrangement with the Investment Adviser.

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Disclaimers
 
“AlphaShares China All-Cap Index” and “AlphaShares China Technology Index” are registered trademarks of AlphaShares and have been licensed for use by the Investment Adviser. The Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by AlphaShares and AlphaShares makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in Shares of the Funds.
 
“Standard & Poor’s®”, “S&P®” and “S&P Global Water Index” are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC ("S&P") and have been licensed for use by the Investment Adviser. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P and S&P makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in Shares of the Fund.
 
S&P does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Index or any data included therein, and S&P shall have no liability for any errors, omissions or interruptions therein. S&P makes no warranty, condition or representation express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Investment Adviser, owners of the Shares of the Fund or any other person or entity from the use of the Index or any data included therein. S&P makes no express or implied warranties, representations or conditions, and expressly disclaims all warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use and any other express or implied warranty or condition with respect to the Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall S&P or have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) resulting from the use of the Index or any data included therein even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
 
The “MAC Global Solar Energy Index” is a trademark of MAC and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Investment Adviser. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by MAC and MAC makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in Shares of the Fund.
 
The Investment Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of any Index or any data included therein and the Investment Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions or interruptions therein.

Federal Income Taxation
 
As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in Shares will be taxed. The tax information in this prospectus is provided as general information. You should consult your own tax professional about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares.
 
Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-deferred retirement account, such as an IRA plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when:
 
Your Fund makes distributions,
You sell your Shares listed on the NYSE Arca, and
You purchase or redeem Creation Units.

Taxes on Distributions
 
Income dividends and long-term capital gains, if any, are distributed to shareholders annually. Each Fund may also pay a special distribution at the end of the calendar year to comply with federal tax requirements. In general, your distributions are subject to federal income tax when they are paid, whether you take them in cash or reinvest them in a Fund. Dividends paid out of a Fund’s income and net short-term gains, if any, are taxable as ordinary income. Distributions of net long-term capital gains, if any, in excess of net short-term capital losses are taxable as long-term capital gains, regardless of how long you have held the Shares.
 
Dividends that are designated as qualified dividend income are eligible for the reduced maximum rate to individuals of 15% or 20% (depending on whether the individual’s income exceeds certain threshold amounts) to the extent that a Fund receives qualified dividend income and subject to certain limitations.
 

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Long-term capital gains of non-corporate taxpayers are generally taxed at a maximum rate of either 15% or 20% depending on whether the individual’s income exceeds certain threshold amounts.
An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Fund shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds certain threshold amounts.
 
Distributions in excess of a Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits are treated as a tax-free return of capital to the extent of your basis in the Shares, and as capital gain thereafter. A distribution will reduce a Fund’s net asset value per Share and may be taxable to you as ordinary income or capital gain even though, from an investment standpoint, the distribution may constitute a return of capital.
 
If you are not a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or if you are a foreign entity, each Fund’s ordinary income dividends (which include distributions of net short-term capital gains) will generally be subject to a 30% U.S. withholding tax, unless a lower treaty rate applies or unless such income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business. Prospective investors are urged to consult their tax advisors concerning the applicability of the U.S. withholding tax.
 
If more than 50% of a Fund’s total assets at the end of its taxable year consists of foreign stock or securities, the Fund intends to elect to “pass through” to its investors certain foreign income taxes paid by the Fund, with the result that each investor will (i) include in gross income, even though not actually received, the investor’s pro rata share of the Fund’s foreign income taxes, and (ii) either deduct (in calculating U.S. taxable income) or credit (in calculating U.S. federal tax), subject to certain limitations, the investor’s pro rata share of the Fund’s foreign income taxes .
 
By law, each Fund must withhold a percentage of your distributions and proceeds if you have not provided a taxpayer identification number or social security number. The backup withholding rate for individuals is currently 28%.
 
Taxes on Exchange-Listed Shares Sales
 
Currently, any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Shares is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less. Capital loss realized on the sale or exchange of Shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any capital gain dividends received by the shareholder. The ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.
 
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
 
An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time and the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the Cash Component paid. A person who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate market value of the securities received and the Cash Redemption Amount. The Internal Revenue Service, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales” on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.
 
Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less.

If you purchase or redeem Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many and at what price you purchased or sold Shares.

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The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the possible consequences under current federal tax law of an investment in a Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You may also be subject to state and local taxation on Fund distributions and sales of Fund Shares. You are advised to consult your personal tax advisor about the potential tax consequences of an investment in Fund Shares under all applicable tax laws. 

Tax-Advantaged Product Structure
 
Unlike interests in many conventional mutual funds, the Shares are traded throughout the day on a national securities exchange, whereas mutual fund interests are typically only bought and sold at closing net asset values. The Shares have been designed to be tradable in the secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and to be created and redeemed principally in-kind in Creation Units at each day’s next calculated NAV. These arrangements are designed to protect ongoing shareholders from adverse effects on the Funds’ portfolios that could arise from frequent cash creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions can have an adverse tax impact on taxable shareholders because the mutual fund may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to meet fund redemptions. These sales may generate taxable gains for the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the Shares’ in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to a tax event for the Funds or their ongoing shareholders.

Other Information
 
For purposes of the 1940 Act, each Fund is treated as a registered investment company. Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies in the securities of other investment companies, including shares of the Funds. Registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Funds beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust, including that such investment companies enter into an agreement with a Fund.
 

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Financial Highlights
 
The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand each Fund’s financial performance since its inception. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in each Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). This information has been derived from the Funds’ financial statements which have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, whose report, along with the Funds’ financial statements, are included in the Funds’ Annual Report, which is available upon request.
 

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YAO | Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF
 
 
Year Ended
August 31,
2014

Year Ended
August 31,
2013

Year Ended
August 31,
2012

Year Ended
August 31,
2011

Period Ended
August 31,
2010(a)

Per Share Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value, beginning of period
$
24.63

$
21.66

$
25.04

$
24.56

$
24.82

Income from investment operations:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income(b)
0.62

0.46

0.52

0.41

0.22

Net gain (loss) on investments (realized and unrealized)
3.80

3.07

(3.32
)
0.35

(0.48
)
Total from investment operations
4.42

3.53

(2.80
)
0.76

(0.26
)
Less distributions from:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
(0.49
)
(0.56
)
(0.58
)
(0.28
)

Total distributions to shareholders
(0.49
)
(0.56
)
(0.58
)
(0.28
)

Net asset value, end of period
$
28.56

$
24.63

$
21.66

$
25.04

$
24.56

Market Value, end of period
$
28.52

$
24.49

$
21.76

$
25.07

$
24.55

Total Return(c)
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value
18.05
%
16.25
%
(11.71
)%
3.01
%
(1.05
)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$
54,262

$
46,804

$
49,822

$
72,607

$
61,402

Ratio to average net assets of:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
2.35
%
1.92
%
2.25
 %
1.50
%
1.02
 %
Total expenses
0.71
%
0.70
%
0.70
 %
0.70
%
0.70
 %
Net expenses
0.71
%
0.70
%
0.70
 %
0.70
%
0.70
 %
Portfolio turnover rate(d)
12
%
16
%
12
 %
16
%
11
 %
 
(a)
Since commencement of operations: October 19, 2009. Percentage amounts for the period, except total return and portfolio turnover rate, have been annualized.
(b)
Based on average shares outstanding.
(c)
Total investment return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distribution at net asset value during the period, and redemption on the last day of the period. Transaction fees are not reflected in the calculation of total investment return.
(d)
Portfolio turnover does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.


 


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CQQQ | Guggenheim China Technology ETF

 
Year Ended
August 31,
2014

Year Ended
August 31,
2013

Year Ended
August 31,
2012

Year Ended
August 31,
2011

Period Ended
August 31,
2010(a)

Per Share Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value, beginning of period
$
29.55

$
20.03

$
25.44

$
24.36

$
25.06

Income from investment operations:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income(b)
0.43

0.28

0.54

0.31

0.08

Net gain (loss) on investments (realized and unrealized)
8.39

9.67

(5.38
)
0.90

(0.78
)
Total from investment operations
8.82

9.95

(4.84
)
1.21

(0.70
)
Less distributions from:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
(0.28
)
(0.43
)
(0.57
)
(0.13
)

Total distributions to shareholders
(0.28
)
(0.43
)
(0.57
)
(0.13
)

Net asset value, end of period
$
38.09

$
29.55

$
20.03

$
25.44

$
24.36

Market Value, end of period
$
37.88

$
29.59

$
19.96

$
25.57

$
24.40

Total Return(c)
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value
29.89
%
50.39
%
(19.10
)%
4.94
%
(2.79
)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$
78,077

$
22,164

$
17,029

$
31,805

$
19,491

Ratio to average net assets of:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
1.22
%
1.16
%
2.38
 %
1.09
%
0.43
 %
Total expenses
0.71
%
0.70
%
0.70
 %
0.70
%
0.70
 %
Net expenses
0.71
%
0.70
%
0.70
 %
0.70
%
0.70
 %
Portfolio turnover rate(d)
39
%
26
%
43
 %
28
%
11
 %
 
(a)
Since commencement of operations: December 8, 2009. Percentage amounts for the period, except total return and portfolio turnover rate, have been annualized.
(b)
Based on average shares outstanding.
(c)
Total investment return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distribution at net asset value during the period, and redemption on the last day of the period. Transaction fees are not reflected in the calculation of total investment return.
(d)
Portfolio turnover does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.


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CGW | Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF

 
Year Ended
August 31,
2014

Year Ended
August 31,
2013

Year Ended
August 31,
2012

Year Ended
August 31,
2011

Year Ended
August 31,
2010

Per Share Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value, beginning of period
$
23.90

$
21.05

$
20.06

$
17.11

$
16.88

Income from investment operations:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income(a)
0.51

0.49

0.44

0.38

0.36

Net gain on investments (realized and unrealized)
5.03

2.81

0.96

2.99

0.07

Total from investment operations
5.54

3.30

1.40

3.37

0.43

Less distributions from:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
(0.42
)
(0.45
)
(0.41
)
(0.42
)
(0.20
)
Total distributions to shareholders
(0.42
)
(0.45
)
(0.41
)
(0.42
)
(0.20
)
Net asset value, end of period
$
29.02

$
23.90

$
21.05

$
20.06

$
17.11

Market Value, end of period
$
29.08

$
23.88

$
20.98

$
19.99

$
16.99

Total Return(b)
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value
23.27
%
15.85
%
7.23
%
19.60
%
2.46
%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$
367,914

$
253,369

$
199,547

$
214,190

$
192,289

Ratio to average net assets of:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
1.83
%
2.13
%
2.22
%
1.85
%
2.02
%
Total expenses
0.65
%
0.71
%
0.76
%
0.78
%
0.77
%
Net expenses
0.65
%
0.70
%
0.70
%
0.70
%
0.70
%
Portfolio turnover rate(c)
7
%
21
%
31
%
8
%
17
%
 
(a)
Based on average shares outstanding.
(b)
Total investment return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distribution at net asset value during the period, and redemption on the last day of the period. Transaction fees are not reflected in the calculation of total investment return.
(c)
Portfolio turnover does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.


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TAN | Guggenheim Solar ETF

 
Year Ended
August 31,
2014

Year Ended
August 31,
2013

Year Ended
August 31,
2012

Year Ended
August 31,
2011

Year Ended
August 31,
2010

Per Share Data*:
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value, beginning of period
$
27.23

$
16.74

$
54.90

$
73.30

$
86.00

Income from investment operations:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)(a)
0.52

0.56

1.84

1.80

(0.10
)
Net gain (loss) on investments (realized and unrealized)
16.28

11.35

(37.89
)
(19.90
)
(12.60
)
Total from investment operations
16.80

11.91

(36.05
)
(18.10
)
(12.70
)
Less distributions from:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
(0.45
)
(1.42
)
(2.11
)
(0.30
)

Total distributions to shareholders
(0.45
)
(1.42
)
(2.11
)
(0.30
)

Net asset value, end of period
$
43.58

$
27.23

$
16.74

$
54.90

$
73.30

Market Value, end of period
$
43.39

$
27.16

$
16.71

$
54.60

$
72.90

Total Return(b)
 
 
 
 
 
Net asset value
62.06
%
77.60
%
(66.93
)%
(24.81
)%
(14.77
)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:
 
 
 
 
 
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$
429,167

$
170,150

$
42,992

$116,473
$147,688
Ratio to average net assets of:
 
 
 
 
 
Net investment income
1.28
%
2.71
%
7.07
 %
2.40
 %
(0.09
)%
Total expenses
0.76
%
0.86
%
1.01
 %
0.88
 %
0.88
 %
Net expenses
0.71
%
0.70
%
0.70
 %
0.70
 %
0.66
 %
Portfolio turnover rate(c)
47
%
68
%
49
 %
38
 %
17
 %
 
*
Reflects 1 for 10 reverse stock split that occurred on February 15, 2012.

(a)
Based on average shares outstanding.
(b)
Total investment return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distribution at net asset value during the period, and redemption on the last day of the period. Transaction fees are not reflected in the calculation of total investment return.
(c)
Portfolio turnover does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.

 


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Information about the total return of each Fund’s Index in comparison to the total return of that Fund can be found at www.guggenheiminvestments.com.

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