S&P 600 Index Shares

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The Standard & Poor's Small Cap 600 Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P Small Cap 600 Index (the "Index"). iShares S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Growth Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Growth Index. iShares S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Value Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Value Index. There is no assurance that the performance of the S&P Small Cap 600 Index can be fully matched.

The S&P 600 Index invests in a basket of small-cap equities. The index was introduced in 1994 in an effort to represent a smaller segment of the market than the S&P MidCap 400 Index. The S&P 600 Index has been gaining popularity among investment managers.

S&P Small Cap 600 Index iShares & ETFs

iShares are exchange-traded securities that represent ownership in over 50 different index funds, each designed to provide investment returns corresponding to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of a particular index compiled by one of five index providers: Standard & Poors (a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.), Dow Jones & Company, Cohen & Steers, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., Frank Russell Company and Goldman Sachs Group. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of each particular index for each fund can be fully matched.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) & iShares

Securities	Issuer	Type	Symbol / Root
S&P Small Cap 600 Index Fund	AMEX	ETF	IJR
S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Growth Index Fund	AMEX	ETF	IJT
S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Value Index Fund	AMEX	ETF	IJS
S&P Small Cap 600 Index Options	CBOE	Options	SML

Rydex Funds

The Rydex S&P 600 Pure Value ETF's investment objective is to replicate as closely as possible, before expenses, the performance of the S&P 600/Citigroup Pure Value Index.