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Guggenheim Emerging Markets Dividend Strategy Portfolio Series 1

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Investment Objective

The Guggenheim Emerging Markets Dividend Strategy Portfolio, Series 1 (“Trust”) seeks to provide dividend income, with a secondary objective of capital gains.

Principal Investment Strategy

Selection Criteria

Risks and Other Considerations

Portfolio Information

Deposit Information

Inception Date 3/8/2012
Non-Reoffered Date 5/22/2012
Mandatory Maturity Date 5/22/2013
Ticker Symbol CGEMAX
Trust Structure Grantor
Inception Unit Price $10.0000
Maturity Price (as of 5/22/13) $8.9570

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate with changes in market conditions. Investors' units, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

This information does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy: nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state where the offer, solicitation, or sale is not permitted.


Principal Investment Strategy

The Trust will invest in a portfolio of securities of 30 companies domiciled in developing nations with a primary objective of providing dividend income and a secondary objective of capital gains.

The Sponsor, with the assistance of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC ("GPIM"), an affiliate of the Sponsor and Guggenheim Partners, LLC, has selected the securities to be included in the Trust’s portfolio. The Sponsor and GPIM believe that companies that distribute significant dividends on a consistent basis demonstrate strong financial strength and positive performance relative to their peers.

See “Investment Policies” in Part B of the prospectus for more information.

Selection Criteria

In constructing the Trust’s portfolio, 30 securities were selected based on the following rules-based criteria:

1. Initial Universe: Start with an initial universe of securities which meet the following requirements:

  • Exclude all companies headquartered in any developed country, which includes Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Exclude all companies headquartered in any tax haven country that is used primarily by companies with operations in developed nations. These countries include the Bahamas, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and Liberia.
  • Security must be a common share or depositary receipt on any public securities exchange in the world.
  • Security may not be an exchangetraded fund, investment fund, limited partnership or Trust.
  • Market capitalization greater than $200 million. Market capitalization is determined by the closing price as of the Security Selection Date. If the security is not U.S. dollardenominated, the currency rate used for the security is the closing price provided by FactSet Research Systems, Inc., with currency exchange rates provided by WM/Reuters when share price is non-U.S. dollar-denominated.
  • Minimum liquidity of $1 million, however, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) traded on either the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ Stock Market do not have to meet this liquidity minimum as long as the underlying foreign local shares do meet the minimum criteria. Liquidity is determined by the average 30 day trading volume in U.S. dollars and is calculated as the average of a 30 trading day look back from the Security Selection Date (i.e., trading volume in shares multiplied by the closing price for the day as provided by FactSet Research Systems, Inc., with currency exchange rates provided by WM/Reuters when share price is non-U.S. dollar-denominated).
  • For companies with multiple listings, only one security is included. Preference is given to a ADR traded on either the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ Stock Market, if available, or to the most liquid security, as determined by the above calculation, if the company is only traded on non-U.S. exchanges.

2. Rank on Fundamentals: Rank every company identified in the initial universe against other companies in the same sector, as defined by the FactSet Industry Classification System, along each of the following reported financial metrics.

Each ranking is determined as of the Security Selection Date using the most recently reported information and uses a scale of 1 through 10 (1 representing the highest scoring 10% in the sector and 10 representing the lowest scoring 10% in the sector):

  • Return on assets calculated as operating income divided by total assets.
  • Earnings before interest and taxes divided by enterprise value. Enterprise value is determined by adding the equity market capitalization as of the most recent closing price with the total outstanding long term and short term debt as determined by the most recently available balance sheet, and then subtracting any cash and short term investments as determined by the most recently available balance sheet.
  • Sales per share growth by trailing year-over-year growth. Trailing year-over-year growth is the percentage change in sales per-share for the trailing 12 months versus the sales per-share from the prior 12 months. Sales per-share is the trailing 12 months of sales from most recent trailing quarterly or semi-annual filings divided by the end of period reported count of common shares outstanding used to calculate basic earnings per share.

Each financial metric will create a separate score so that every company will have three scores. These three scores are averaged together to create one composite score for a company. This composite score is used to rank the companies next step in order to determine the sub-universe of securities.

3. Define Sub-Universe: Reduce the initial universe of securities to a sub-universe that meets the following requirements, with each requirement being applied independently to the initial universe from the other requirements in this step, as of the Security Selection Date:

  • Exclude the lowest ranked 25% of securities from the initial universe determined by the average of the three financial rankings described in step 2.
  • Exclude the 20% of the initial universe with the lowest trailing six month total return.
  • Exclude securities not listed on a securities exchange located in one of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Exclude securities that have a pending cash or stock merger and acquisition or bankruptcy which will lead to delisting the security from the qualifying exchanges above. Such events will be determined by reviewing the announced merger and acquisition data from Bloomberg and if the announced date falls before the Security Selection Date, an announcement of an agreement to be acquired in whole for cash or stock from an acquiring company or bankruptcy filing will cause exclusion.

4. Selection: Select from the sub-universe the thirty top dividend yielding securities (with a higher ranking given to the largest market capitalization securities if dividend yields are equal or zero), equally weighted as of the Security Selection Date, which adhere to following portfolio limits as of the Security Selection Date:

  • Maximum 20% weight in any one FactSet sector as of the Security Selection Date.
  • Maximum one-third of the portfolio in small-capitalization companies (less than $1 billion USD) as of the Security Selection Date.
  • Maximum two-thirds of the portfolio will consist of small-capitalization and mid-capitalization companies (less than $5 billion USD) as of the Security Selection Date.
  • Maximum 40% weight in any one geographic region as of the Security Selection Date. Geographic regions are based on a selected company’s country of headquarters and are defined as follows: Africa, Australasia, Eastern Europe, Far East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, North America, South Asia and Western Europe.
  • Any country with more than one security in the Trust portfolio is limited to a portfolio weight that cannot exceed the lesser of +10% or 10 times its market capitalization based weight amongst all emerging market countries.
  • Maximum of 25% of the Trust portfolio in securities traded on a non-U.S. securities exchange.

Once an investment limitation has been reached, additional securities of that type will not be included in the Trust and the next highest yielding security will be used.

Please note that due to the fluctuating nature of security prices, the weighting of an individual security or sector in the Trust portfolio may change after the Security Selection Date.

Risks and Other Considerations

As with all investments, you may lose some or all of your investment in the Trust. No assurance can be given that the Trust’s investment objective will be achieved. The Trust also might not perform as well as you expect. This can happen for reasons such as these:

  • Securities prices can be volatile. The value of your investment may fall over time. Market value fluctuates in response to various factors. These can include stock market movements, purchases or sales of securities by the Trust, government policies, litigation, and changes in interest rates, inflation, the financial condition of the securities’ issuer or even perceptions of the issuer. Units of the Trust are not deposits of any bank and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
  • Due to the current state of the economy, the value of the securities held by the Trust may be subject to steep declines or increased volatility due to changes in performance or perception of the issuers. Starting in December 2007, economic activity declined across all sectors of the economy, and most countries experienced increased unemployment. The economic crisis affected the global economy with European and Asian markets also suffering historic losses. Standard & Poor’s Rating Services recently lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States to “AA+” from “AAA,” which could lead to increased interest rates and volatility. Extraordinary steps have been taken by the governments of several leading countries to combat the economic crisis; however, the impact of these measures is not yet fully known and cannot be predicted.
  • The Trust invests in foreign securities and American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”). The Trust’s investment in foreign securities and ADRs presents additional risk. ADRs are issued by a bank or Trust company to evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by foreign corporations. Securities of foreign issuers present risks beyond those of domestic securities. More specifically, foreign risk is the risk that foreign securities will be more volatile than U.S. securities due to such factors as adverse economic, currency, political, social or regulatory developments in a country, including government seizure of assets, excessive taxation, limitations on the use or transfer of assets, the lack of liquidity or regulatory controls with respect to certain industries or differing legal and/or accounting standards.
  • The Trust includes securities issued by companies headquartered or incorporated in countries considered to be emerging markets. Emerging markets are generally defined as countries with low per capita income in the initial stages of their industrialization cycles. Risks of investing in developing or emerging countries include the possibility of investment and trading limitations, liquidity concerns, delays and disruptions in settlement transactions, political uncertainties and dependence on international trade and development assistance. Companies headquartered in emerging market countries may be exposed to greater volatility and market risk.
  • The Trust includes securities whose value may be dependent on currency exchange rates. The U.S. dollar value of these securities may vary with fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. Most foreign currencies have fluctuated widely in value against the U.S. dollar for various economic and political reasons such as the activity level of large international commercial banks, various central banks, speculators, hedge funds and other buyers and sellers of foreign currencies.
  • The Trust invests in securities issued by small-capitalization and midcapitalization companies. These securities customarily involve more investment risk than securities of largecapitalization companies. Smallcapitalization and mid-capitalization companies may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources and may be more vulnerable to adverse general market or economic developments.
  • Share prices or dividend rates on the securities in the Trust may decline during the life of the Trust. There is no guarantee that the issuers of the securities will declare dividends in the future and, if declared, whether they will remain at current levels or increase over time.
  • Inflation may lead to a decrease in the value of assets or income from investments.
  • The Sponsor does not actively manage the portfolio. The Trust will generally hold, and may, when creating additional units, continue to buy, the same securities even though a security’s outlook, market value or yield may have changed.

See “Investment Risks” in Part A of the prospectus and “Risk Factors” in Part B of the prospectus for additional information.

Please see the Trust prospectus for more complete risk information.

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