Horizons ETFs

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About Horizons Exchange Traded Funds

Horizons Exchange Traded Funds are innovative investment tools that help you achieve all your financial goals, whether you are seeking to build your assets, protect from downside risks, or maximize your income. No matter what the markets are doing, and no matter what your time frame, we offer intelligent solutions through both passive index-linked ETFs and actively managed strategies. Horizons ETFs provide you with flexible, low-cost solutions to help you in any market environment.

Flexible
Horizons ETFs offers choices for longer-term buy and hold investors, as well as tactical trading strategies, such as:
• Core positions in equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies
• Alternatives to traditional leverage, with limited risk
• Ability to hedge or short the market with risk limited to capital invested
• Capitalize on short-term market trends

Low-Cost
At a fraction of the cost of traditional mutual funds, Horizons ETFs offer low-cost solutions across the asset allocation spectrum, for both growth-oriented and more conservative investors.

Insightful Support
Horizons ETFs utilize leading edge market research and education as well as exclusive access in Canada to world-class portfolio managers that provide their unique perspectives on global markets. Whether you prefer to manage your own portfolio or let the experts do it for you, Horizons ETFs provide investment solutions to suit your needs.

Distribution
Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc., an affiliate of BetaPro Management Inc., is the sole distributor of leveraged, inverse, and actively managed ETFs in Canada, providing innovative investment tools for investors looking to achieve their investment goals no matter what the market conditions. Horizons ETFs provides sales, marketing, and client service for Horizons BetaPro ETFs and Horizons AlphaPro ETFs.

Horizons BetaPro Exchange Traded Funds (“HBP ETFs”) are managed by BetaPro Management Inc., Canada’s sole provider of investment tools allowing investors to profit when the market is rising or falling, or to reduce their risk by hedging their existing market exposure. Horizons BetaPro ETFs offer three types of structures: Bull+/Bear+ leveraged ETFs, single ETFs, and single inverse ETFs. The HBP Bull+ ETFs and HBP Bear+ ETFs are designed to provide daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to double the daily performance, or double the inverse daily performance, respectively, of their specified underlying index or benchmark. The HBP Inverse ETFs are designed to provide daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to the one times the inverse of their specified underlying index or benchmark. The HBP Single ETFs are designed to provide investment results, before fees, expenses, distributions, brokerage commissions and other transaction costs, that endeavour to correspond to the performance of their specified underlying index. BetaPro is a subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corporation (JOV:TSX) and manages, as of December 31, 2009, approximately $2.5 billion amongst 38 ETFs.

AlphaPro is an innovative financial services company specializing in actively managed ETFs with assets under management of approximately $123 million as of January 31, 2010. AlphaPro is a subsidiary of BetaPro Management Inc. (“BetaPro”). BetaPro is Canada’s largest provider of leveraged, inverse leveraged and inverse ETFs. BetaPro manages approximately $2.3 billion in assets as of January 31, 2010. BetaPro is a subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corporation.

Jovian acquires, creates and grows financial services companies specializing in wealth and asset management. The Jovian group of companies (AlphaPro Management Inc., BetaPro Management Inc., Horizons Funds Inc., JovFunds Inc., JovFunds Management Inc., JovInvestment Management Inc., Leon Frazer & Associates Inc., MGI Securities Inc., MGI Securities (USA) Inc., MGI Financial Inc. and T.E. Wealth) manages $12.5 billion of client assets ($6.0 billion in assets under management and $6.5 billion in assets under administration). Additional information is available at www.sedar.com.

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Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with exchange traded funds ("ETFs") investments. ETFs are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated. Please read the prospectus before investing. "Standard & Poor's®" and "S&P®" are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor�s Financial Services LLC ("S&P") and "TSX®" is a registered trademark of the TSX Inc. ("TSX"). All trademarks/servicemarks have been licensed for use by BetaPro Management Inc. and/or AlphaPro Management Inc. The Horizons BetaPro ETFs and the Horizons AlphaPro ETFs (collectively, the "Horizons ETFs") are not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by Standard & Poor's or TSX or their affiliated companies and none of these parties make any representation, warranty or condition regarding the advisability of investing in the Horizons ETFs. All other trademarks and servicemarks are registered by their respective owners and licensed for use by BetaPro Management Inc. and/or AlphaPro Management Inc. and none of the owners thereof or any of their affiliates sponsor, endorse, sell, promote or make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Horizons ETFs. Complete trademark and servicemark information is available by clicking here.