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Registration Statement No. 333-180300-03
February 13, 2014

 
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The following article relating to the VelocityShares ETNs appeared on the website www.etftrends.com on February 4, 2014. The article included the following statements:

Traders have been pouring into the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN (NYSEArca: XIV), noted VelocityShares Chief Investment Officer Nick Cherney in an interview with ETF Trends.

In dollar terms, XIV traded about 3.5 times its trailing 90-day average, according to VelocityShares.

“When volume spikes, we see the most interest in XIV,” said Cherney. “We saw a 60% increase in shares outstanding in XIV in January.”

XIV, which more than doubled in 2012 and again in 2013 as volatility slid, is a play on VIX futures that are at the front end of the futures curve, meaning the ETN is more prone to be whipsawed as volatility increases, notes Cherney.

The VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Medium Term ETN (NYSEArca: ZIV), which saw volume of nearly quadruple the daily average on Monday, is in contango, according to Cherney.

Cherney describes ZIV as XIV’s “slower, tamer brother” while noting interest in ZIV has increased as well with shares outstanding in that ETN jumping 17% last month.

XIV seeks to provide inverse exposure to the daily performance of the underlying Index, plus a daily accrual equal to the return that could be earned on a notional capital reinvestment at the three month U.S. Treasury rate as reported on Bloomberg under ticker USB3MTA, less the daily investor fee. 

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