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| PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund |
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| Description |
The PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (Symbol: DBA) (the “Fund”) is based on the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Excess Return™ (the “Index” or "DB Agriculture Index") and is managed by DB Commodity Services LLC (the “Managing Owner”). The Index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on some of the most liquid and widely traded agricultural commodities. The Index is intended to reflect the performance of the agricultural sector.
Investors can buy and sell shares in the Fund at market price on the NYSE Arca, Inc. Ordinary brokerage commissions apply. Shares may only be redeemed directly from the Fund by Authorized Participants in blocks consisting of 200,000 shares.
Prospectus
DBA Fund Card |
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Fund and Index Data as of December 31, 2011 |
Source: DB / Bloomberg
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PERFORMANCE DATA QUOTED REPRESENTS PAST PERFORMANCE. INVESTMENT RETURNS AND PRINCIPAL VALUE WILL FLUCTUATE AND SHARES OF THE FUND, WHEN REDEEMED, MAY BE WORTH MORE OR LESS THAN THEIR ORIGINAL COST. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.
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| IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS |
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Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. The Fund will be successful only if significant losses are
avoided. Fund focusing on a single sector generally experience greater volatility. Please review the prospectus for specific break-even figures for the Fund.
The Fund is speculative and involves a high degree of risk. An investor may lose all or substantially all of an investment in the Fund.
The Fund is not a mutual fund or any other type of Investment Company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder.
Shares in the Fund are not FDIC insured, may lose value and have no bank guarantee.
This material must be accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
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1Index history has certain inherent limitations and does not represent actual trading performance or returns of the Fund. Index history does not represent trades that have actually been executed and therefore may under or over compensate for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as illiquidity. No representation is being made that the Fund will or is likely to achieve profi ts or losses similar to the Index history. For a complete list of risks associated with an investment in the Fund, please see the prospectus.
From Fund inception to Oct. 16, 2009, the Fund followed the Optimum Yield Agriculture version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index™.
As of Oct. 19, 2009, the Fund follows the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Excess Return™.
All Index history reflects a blend of the performance of the aforementioned Indexes ("DB Agriculture Index").
2 The Fund's exchange listing date: Jan. 5, 2007. Unless otherwise noted, historical information of all displayed indexes is based on this date.
3The Fund seeks to track the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Excess Return™ (Symbol: DBLCIX). Results for
the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Total Return™ (Symbol: DBLCDBAT), which consists of the Index plus
3-month U.S. Treasury securities returns, are
displayed because the Fund collateralizes futures
positions with 3-month U.S. Treasury securities.
The S&P GSCI Commodity Index — Total ReturnTM
(S&P GSCI Commodity) and the Dow Jones — UBS
Commodity Index Total Return IndexSM (DJ-UBS
Commodity) are unmanaged indexes used as a
measurement of change in commodity market
conditions based on the performance of a basket of
commodities. The S&P 500® Index (S&P 500) is an
unmanaged index considered representative of the
U.S. stock market. S&P GSCI Commodity Index —
Total ReturnTM is a trademark of Standard & Poor’s,
a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Dow
Jones — UBS Commodity Index Total Return IndexSM
is a trademark of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. and UBS
Securities LLC. You cannot invest directly in an
index.
4NAV is a symbol representing estimated fair value based on the most recent intraday price of underlying assets.
5Market returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4 p.m. ET and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times
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