ETF Securities Appoints Junichi Honda as Managing Director, Head of Sales and Marketing, Japan

Tokyo-ETF Securities, the global pioneer and one of the world’s leading provider of Exchange Traded Products, which launched Asia’s first ever commodity ETF platform in Tokyo Stock Exchange earlier this year, today announced the appointment of Junichi Honda as Managing Director, Head of Sales and Marketing in Japan.

Junichi Honda’s appointment is in direct response to increasing investor demand for commodity ETFs in Japan. He will be responsible for growing the business with clients in Japan. He has over 20 years of experiences in financial industry and has had variety of types of key responsibilities. He joins ETF Securities from iShares, where he was Head of Sales in Japan. Prior to this, he worked for Merrill Lynch Japan Securities as Head of Foreign Equity Sales Department. During his career with the company over 10 years, he engaged himself in several businesses such as prime brokerage and hedge fund services etc. Earlier in his career, he worked for Sanyo Securities and stationed in London and Hong Kong. He received M.S. in financial economics from University of London. He is also a member of Nippon Technical Analyst Association.

Comment on the expansion of the team in Japan, Nobiru Adachi, the representative of ETF Securities in Japan, said:

"We are delighted to announce the appointment of Juichi Honda as the key hire for ETF Securities in Japan. Junichi Honda brings a wealth of sales and marketing experience to the team in Japan. This addition shows our firm commitment to expanding our business and serving the investors in Japan.”

Notes to Editors:

ETF Securities is a provider of Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs) and 3rd generation Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The management of ETF Securities pioneered the development of ETCs, with the world's first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion Securities in Australia and London in2003 and then the world's first entire ETC platform which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006.

ETF Securities now offers more than 200 Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with $20.0 billion in assets as of 31/08/10.

The ETPs provide investors with a wide variety of investment strategies, with ETPs offering resource equities, physical, long, forward, leveraged and short exposure to all commodity sectors. ETPs are simple to access as they are traded in five currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, AUD and JPY) and listed on nine major exchanges globally including the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, NYSE-Euronext Paris, NYSE-Euronext Amsterdam, Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana, the Australian Securities Exchange and the Irish Stock Exchange.

ETF Securities has three exchange-traded platforms: Commodity ETCs, Currency ETCs and Equity ETFs:



ETF Securities‘ physically backed gold products meet the “Gold Standard” set out by The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)

For further information or to speak to the research team at ETF Securities please contact:

Mizue Hashiguchi
Telephone: +81-3-4360-9101

Disclaimer:

This is a press release and not for the purpose of soliciting investments nor the disclosure document in pursuant to the Financial Exchange and Instrument Law.

In Japan, neither ETF Securities Limited, ETFS Commodity Securities Limited nor ETFS Metal Securities Limited is and has an intention to be engaged in such businesses as sales or purchase of Securities, intermediary, brokerage or agency service for sales or purchase of Securities, underwriting of Securities, public offering or private placement of Securities, dealing in public offering or secondary distribution of Securities, dealing in private placement of Securities, provision of advice under the Investment Advisory Contract, or investment of money or other properties. Therefore, this document is not for such purposes.

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