POWERSHARES EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST
SUPPLEMENT DATED APRIL 20, 2018 TO THE PROSPECTUSES AND STATEMENTS OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DATED APRIL 9, 2018 OF:
PowerShares Defensive Equity Portfolio
PowerShares Multi-Factor Large Cap Portfolio
PowerShares U.S. Large Cap Optimized Volatility Portfolio
(each, a Fund and collectively, the Funds)
On April 19, 2018, the Board of Trustees of PowerShares Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (the Trust) approved changing the Funds names. Effective on or about June 4, 2018, the name of each Fund and all references thereto are changing as indicated below:
CURRENT NAME |
NEW NAME | |
PowerShares Defensive Equity Portfolio | Invesco Defensive Equity ETF | |
PowerShares Multi-Factor Large Cap Portfolio | Invesco Multi-Factor Large Cap ETF | |
PowerShares U.S. Large Cap Optimized Volatility Portfolio | Invesco U.S. Large Cap Optimized Volatility ETF |
On April 19, 2018, the Board of Trustees of the Trust approved changing the Trusts name. Effective on or about June 4, 2018, the name of the Trust and all references thereto are changing as indicated below:
CURRENT NAME |
NEW NAME | |
PowerShares Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust |
Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust |
In addition, effective on or about June 4, 2018, the names of the following trusts and all references thereto are changing as indicated below:
CURRENT NAME |
NEW NAME | |
PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust |
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust | |
PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II |
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II | |
PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust |
Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust | |
PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust |
Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust | |
PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust |
Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust |
Effective on or about June 4, 2018, the name of the investment adviser is changing from Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC to Invesco Capital Management LLC and all references thereto are changing accordingly.
Effective on or about June 4, 2018, any and all references to PowerShares family of ETFs are hereby changing to Invesco family of ETFs.
Effective on or about June 4, 2018, www.powershares.com is changing to www.invesco.com, info@powershares.com is changing to info@invesco.com, and www.powershares.com/capitalmarkets is changing to www.invesco.com/capitalmarkets, as applicable.
Effective on or about June 4, 2018, any and all references to PowerShares are changing to Invesco.
Please Retain This Supplement for Future Reference.
P-BRAND-SUP-6 042018
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