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Geared Investing: An introduction to leveraged and inverse funds

This brochure provides a basic introduction to leveraged and inverse investing, also called geared investing. It is intended to help you understand some of the benefits and risks of using geared products, including geared mutual funds and ETFs.
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Geared Fund Performance: Understanding leveraged and inverse funds

There are several key concepts investors should understand about geared fund performance before investing. This brochure discusses one-day investment objectives, how compounding affects geared fund performance, and approaches to holding geared funds for periods longer than one day.
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Components of Leveraged and Inverse Funds

Geared funds may invest in a number of different securities and financial instruments including stocks, bonds, swaps, futures and forwards to achieve their investment goals. Read this for a brief overview of how geared funds may be constructed using these types of investments.
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The Universal Effects of Compounding and Leveraged Funds

Compounding is a universal mathematical concept that affects the returns of all investments. Learn why it is important for investors to understand how compounding affects returns under different market conditions. This is particularly important for investors in geared funds where the effects of compounding are magnified.
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Rebalancing Leveraged and Inverse Fund Positions

The effects of compounding can make geared fund returns greater than the benchmark return times the fund multiple during trending periods, and lower than the benchmark return times the fund multiple during volatile periods. For many investors, the rebalancing techniques discussed here can increase the likelihood of achieving returns close to the index return times the fund multiple over time.
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Volatility in Perspective

Volatility is one measure of risk that should be considered carefully with every investment. But, what is volatility and why does it matter? How does volatility impact geared funds? Get answers to these questions, as well as a look at 10-year historical volatility results across more than 40 broad and sector indexes.
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Longer-Term Strategies for Geared ETFs

Geared ETFs may help you put your views on volatility and market direction into action. Depending on your goals, there are a number of ways to address the effects of compounding on geared funds, and possibly even take advantage of them. This edition of Strategy Insights outlines two ways sophisticated investors might benefit from longer-term positions in geared ETFs.
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Hedging Bond Risk with Inverse ETFs

Bond investors may be exposed to more risk than they realize. They may not know what to do about it. Here we discuss a strategy to help cushion a bond portfolio if rising rates drive down bond prices.
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Tools

Rebalancing Calculator

Use this tool to help you rebalance a geared fund position. Just fill in the amount of your initial investment, the return of the index or benchmark since then, and your current investment value. The calculator automatically suggests a rebalance trade amount to help you realign your exposure.
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Premium/Discount Tool

Use this tool to find out how frequently a ProShares ETF has traded at a premium or discount.
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Fund Data Downloads

Daily Holdings for All ProShares ETFs

Daily holdings for specific ProShares ETFs are available in an easy-to-read format by clicking on the Holdings link from any product page.
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Daily NAVs and Fund Holdings for ProShares Silver ETFs

The London Bullion Market Association’s (LMBA) Silver Pool sets or fixes the price of silver once a day, at 12:00 GMT. ProShares Ultra Silver (AGQ) and ProShares UltraShort Silver (ZSL) are benchmarked to the 12:00 GMT, or the 7:00 a.m. ET, price. This file contains the daily NAVs and fund holdings for these funds updated as of 7:00 a.m. ET.
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Historical NAVs for All ProShares ETFs

Information for specific ProShares ETFs is available by clicking on the "NAV History" link from any product page. Obtain historical NAVs, NAV change (both dollar and percentage change), and shares outstanding.
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