424B2 1 d488237d424b2.htm PRICING SUPPLEMENT - IWM BASKET SUPERTRACK E-7755 Pricing Supplement - IWM Basket SuperTrack E-7755

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities Offered

  

Maximum Aggregate Offering Price

  

Amount of Registration Fee(1)

Global Medium-Term Notes, Series A

   $3,158,000    $430.75

 

(1) Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(r) of the Securities Act of 1933.


Pricing Supplement dated February 13, 2013

(To the Prospectus dated August 31, 2010,

the Prospectus Supplement dated May 27, 2011

and Index Supplement dated May 31, 2011)

  

Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)

Registration No. 333-169119

 

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$3,158,000

 

Buffered SuperTrackSM Notes due February 19, 2019

Linked to the Performance of an Equity Basket

 

Global Medium-Term Notes, Series A, No. E-7755

  

Terms used in this pricing supplement, but not defined herein, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the prospectus supplement.

 

Issuer:    Barclays Bank PLC
Basket Initial Valuation Date:    February 13, 2013
Issue Date:    February 19, 2013
Basket Final Valuation Date:    February 13, 2019*
Maturity Date:    February 19, 2019**
Denominations:    Minimum denomination of $1,000, and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof
Interest:    We will not pay you interest during the term of the Notes.
Reference Asset:    A weighted basket (the “Basket”) comprised of the following indices and exchange-traded funds (each of which are referred to as a “Basket Component” and collectively as the “Basket Components”) with each Basket Component having the weighting noted below:

 

Basket Components

   Bloomberg Service Page    Weight     Initial Value  

S&P 500® Index (the “S&P 500 Index”)

   SPX<Index>      34.50     1,520.33   

Russell 2000® Index (the “Russell 2000 Index”)

   RTY <Index>      8.00     920.58   

iShares® MSCI EAFE Index Fund (the “MSCI EAFE ETF”)

   EFA UP <Equity>      9.00   $ 58.90   

PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (the “DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF”)

   DBC UP <Equity>      8.00   $ 28.51   

Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund (the “Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF”)

   XLP UP <Equity>      5.00   $ 37.48   

iShares® Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (the “Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF”)

   DVY UP <Equity>      5.00   $ 60.86   

iShares® iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (the “iBoxx ETF”)

   LQD UP <Equity>      7.00   $ 119.05   

iShares® MSCI Japan Index Fund (the “MSCI Japan ETF”)

   EWJ UP <Equity>      7.00   $ 10.04   

iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (the “MSCI Emerging Markets ETF”)

   EEM UP <Equity>      5.00   $ 44.18   

Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (the “Health Care Select Sector ETF”)

   XLV UP <Equity>      4.00   $ 43.22   

PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 (the “Power Shares QQQ ETF”)

   QQQ UP <Equity>      4.00   $ 67.97   

iShares Barclays Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Bond Fund (the “iShares TIPS ETF”)

   TIP UP <Equity>      3.50   $ 120.17   

 

   Each of the S&P 500® Index and the Russell 2000® Index are referred to herein as an “Index” and collectively as the “Indices”. Each Basket Component other than the Indices is referred to herein as an “ETF” and collectively as the “ETFs”.
Buffer Percentage:    34.00%
Initial Basket Level:    The Initial Basket Level will be set to 100.00 on the Basket Initial Valuation Date.
Final Basket Level:   

The Final Basket Level will reflect the Basket Performance as measured from the Basket Initial Valuation Date to the Basket Final Valuation Date and will be calculated as follows:

 

Initial Basket Level + [Initial Basket Level × Basket Performance]

Threshold Level:    The Threshold Level will be equal to 66.00% of the Initial Basket Level, or 66.00
Payment at Maturity:   

If you hold your Notes to maturity, you will receive (in each case, subject to our credit risk), a cash payment determined as follows:

 

•       If the Final Basket Level is greater than the Initial Basket Level, you will receive a cash payment per $1,000 principal amount Note equal to (a) $1,000 plus (b) $1,000 times the Basket Performance calculated as follows:

 

$1,000 + [$1,000 × Basket Performance]

 

•       If the Final Basket Level is less than or equal to the Initial Basket Level, but greater than or equal to the Threshold Level, you will receive a cash payment of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount Note that you hold; and

 

•       If the Final Basket Level is less than the Threshold Level, you will receive a cash payment per $1,000 principal amount Note equal to (a) $1,000 plus (b) $1,000 times (i) the Basket Performance plus the Buffer Percentage. Accordingly, your payment per $1,000 principal amount Note will be calculated as follows:

 

$1,000 + [$1,000 × (Basket Performance + Buffer Percentage)]

 

If the Basket Performance is less than -34.00%, you will lose 1% of the principal amount of your Notes for every 1% that the Basket Performance falls below -34.00% and you may lose up to 66.00% of your principal. Any payment on the Notes, including any principal protection feature provided at maturity, is subject to the creditworthiness of the Issuer and is not guaranteed by any third party. For a description of risks with respect to the ability of Barclays Bank PLC to satisfy its obligations as they come due, see “Credit of Issuer” in this pricing supplement.

Closing Value of the Basket Components:   

With respect to an Index, the closing level of the Index published at the regular weekday close of trading on the relevant valuation date as determined by the Calculation Agent and displayed on the applicable Bloomberg Professional® service page noted above or any successor page on Bloomberg Professional® service or any successor service, as applicable.

 

With respect to an ETF, the official closing price per share of the exchange traded fund on the relevant valuation date as displayed on the respective Bloomberg Professional® service page noted above or any successor page on Bloomberg Professional® service or any successor service, as applicable.

 

In certain circumstances, the closing level of an Index will be based on the alternate calculation of the index as described in “Reference Assets—Adjustments Relating to Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Index or Indices” starting on page S-90 of the accompanying Prospectus Supplement.

 

In certain circumstances, the closing price per share of an ETF will be based on the alternate calculation of the ETF as described in “Reference Asset—Adjustments Relating to Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Exchange-Traded Fund or Exchange-Traded Funds” in the accompanying prospectus supplement.

Basket Component Return:   

With respect to each Basket Component, the performance of such Basket Component from its Initial Value to its Final Value, calculated as follows:

 

Final Value – Initial Value

Initial Value

Initial Value:    With respect to each Basket Component, the Closing Value of such Basket Component on the Basket Initial Valuation Date, as noted in the table above.
Final Value:    With respect to each Basket Component, the Closing Value of such Basket Component on the Basket Final Valuation Date.
Basket Value Contribution:    With respect to a Basket Component, the weight of such Basket Component (as shown in the table above) times the Basket Component Return of such Basket Component.
Basket Performance:    The Basket Performance will be equal to the sum of the Basket Value Contributions of each Basket Component.
Reference Asset Business Day:    A day that is both (i) an Index Business Day with respect to each of the Indices, and (ii) a Trading Day with respect to each of the ETFs.
Index Business Day:    With respect to an Index, a day, as determined by the Calculation Agent, on which each of the relevant exchanges on which each Index component is traded is scheduled to be open for trading and trading is generally conducted on each such relevant exchange.
Trading Day:    With respect to the ETF, a day, as determined by the Calculation Agent, on which the primary exchange or market of trading for shares or other interests in the ETF or the shares of any successor fund is scheduled to be open for trading and trading is generally conducted on such market or exchange.
Calculation Agent:    Barclays Bank PLC
Basket Selection Agent:    The composition and the weighting of the Basket Components were selected by the Institute for Wealth Management, LLC (“IWM”), a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (in its capacity as Basket Selection Agent with respect to the Notes, the “Basket Selection Agent”). We will pay IWM, as Basket Selection Agent, a fee equal to 2% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes for determining the composition and weighting of the Basket. This fee is included in the original issue price of the Notes. IWM, as investment adviser, may charge fees for accounts that it advises based on the amount of assets held in those accounts. If IWM, as your investment adviser, purchases Notes on your behalf for your accounts, you may be charged fees based on the amount of assets (including the Notes) that you may hold in such accounts. Such fees, if any, will be in addition to the fee that IWM will receive for serving as Basket Selection Agent. For more information on IWM, see “Institute for Wealth Management” in this pricing supplement. The offering of the Notes is not an endorsement by us or any of our affiliates of an investment in the Notes or any of the Basket Components.
CUSIP/ISIN:    06741TNZ6 and US06741TNZ65

 

* Subject to postponement in the event of a market disruption event and as described under “Selected Purchase Considerations—Market Disruption Events” in this pricing supplement.
** Subject to postponement in the event of a market disruption event and as described under “Terms of the Notes—Maturity Date” and “Selected Purchase Considerations—Market Disruption Events” in this pricing supplement.

Investing in the Notes involves a number of risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page S-6 of the prospectus supplement, “Risk Factors” beginning on page IS-2 of the index supplement and “Selected Risk Considerations” beginning on page PS-9 of this pricing supplement.

The Notes will not be listed on any U.S. securities exchange or quotation system. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined that this pricing supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

We may use this pricing supplement in the initial sale of Notes. In addition, Barclays Capital Inc. or another of our affiliates may use this pricing supplement in market resale transactions in any Notes after their initial sale. Unless we or our agent informs you otherwise in the confirmation of sale, this pricing supplement is being used in a market resale transaction.

The Notes constitute our direct, unconditional, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations and are not deposit liabilities of Barclays Bank PLC and are not insured by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency of the United States, the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction.

 

    

Price to Public

  

Agent’s Commission

  

Proceeds to Barclays Bank PLC

Per Note

   100%    0.25%    99.75%

Total

   $3,158,000    $7,895    $3,150,105

 

 

Barclays Capital Inc. will receive commissions from the Issuer equal to 0.25% of the principal amount of the notes, or $2.50 per $1,000 principal amount, and may retain all or a portion of these commissions or use all or a portion of these commissions to pay selling concessions or fees to other dealers. Accordingly, the percentage and total proceeds to Issuer listed herein is the minimum amount of proceeds that Issuer receives.

 

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ADDITIONAL TERMS SPECIFIC TO THE NOTES

You should read this pricing supplement together with the prospectus dated August 31, 2010, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated May 27, 2011 relating to our Global Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of which these Notes are a part. This pricing supplement, together with the documents listed below, contains the terms of the Notes and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral statements as well as any other written materials including preliminary or indicative pricing terms, correspondence, trade ideas, structures for implementation, sample structures, brochures or other educational materials of ours. You should carefully consider, among other things, the matters set forth under “Risk Factors” in the prospectus supplement, as the Notes involve risks not associated with conventional debt securities. We urge you to consult your investment, legal, tax, accounting and other advisors before you invest in the Notes.

You may access these documents on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) website at www.sec.gov as follows (or if such address has changed, by reviewing our filings for the relevant date on the SEC website):

 

 

Prospectus dated August 31, 2010:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312070/000119312510201448/df3asr.htm

 

 

Prospectus Supplement dated May 27, 2011:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312070/000119312511152766/d424b3.htm

 

 

Index Supplement dated May 31, 2011:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/312070/000119312511154632/d424b3.htm

Our SEC file number is 1-10257. As used in this pricing supplement, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refers to Barclays Bank PLC.

 

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Hypothetical Examples

Illustrative Calculations of Basket Component Returns, Basket Value Contributions, Basket Performance, Final Basket Level and Payment at Maturity

The following example sets forth the methodology used to calculate the Basket Component Return of each Basket Component, the Basket Value Contribution of each Basket Component and the Basket Performance. The numbers set forth in the following example, which have been rounded for ease of reference, are purely hypothetical and are provided for illustrative purposes only and do not relate to the actual Initial Value of any Basket Component on the Basket Initial Valuation Date or the Final Value of any Basket Component on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot predict the Basket Component Returns of any of the Basket Components or the Basket Performance.

This example assumes the Initial Values, Final Values and weights of the Basket Components as indicated, the Buffer Percentage of 34.00%, the Threshold Level of 66.00 and the Initial Basket Level of 100.00.

 

Basket Component

   Initial Value      Final Value      Basket
Component
Return
    Weight     Basket Value
Contribution
 

S&P 500 Index

     1520.33         760.165         -50.00     34.50     -17.25

Russell 2000 Index

     920.58         598.377         -35.00     8.00     -2.80

MSCI EAFE ETF

     58.9         29.45         -50.00     9.00     -4.50

DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF

     28.51         11.404         -60.00     8.00     -4.80

Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF

     37.48         22.488         -40.00     5.00     -2.00

Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF

     60.86         36.516         -40.00     5.00     -2.00

iBoxx ETF

     119.05         83.335         -30.00     7.00     -2.10

MSCI Japan ETF

     10.04         10.291         2.50     7.00     0.18

MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

     44.18         17.672         -60.00     5.00     -3.00

Health Care Select Sector ETF

     43.22         8.644         -80.00     4.00     -3.20

Power Shares QQQ ETF

     67.97         33.985         -50.00     4.00     -2.00

iShares TIPS ETF

     120.17         130.9853         9.00     3.50     0.32
Basket Performance (sum of the Basket Value Contributions):        -43.16

Step 1: Calculate the Basket Component Return of each Basket Component.

As the table above demonstrates, the Basket Component Return for each Basket Component will be equal to the performance of the Basket Component from its Initial Value to its Final Value, calculated as follows:

Final Value – Initial Value

Initial Value

Step 2: Calculate the Basket Value Contribution of each Basket Component.

As the table above demonstrates, the Basket Value Contribution for each Basket Component will be equal to the weight of such Basket Component times the Basket Component Return of such Basket Component.

Step 3: Calculate the Basket Performance.

As the table above demonstrates, the Basket Performance will be equal to the sum of the Basket Value Contributions of each Basket Component. In this case, the Basket Performance equals -43.16%.

Step 4: Using the Basket Performance calculated in Step 3 above, calculate the Final Basket Level.

As set forth on the cover page of this pricing supplement, the Final Basket Level is equal to (a) the Initial Basket Level plus (b) the Initial Basket Level times the Basket Performance. Accordingly, the Final Basket Level is calculated as follows:

Initial Basket Level + [Initial Basket Level × Basket Performance]

100.00 + [100.00 × -43.16%] = 56.84

 

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Accordingly, the Final Basket Level is 56.84.

Step 5: Using the Final Basket Level calculated in Step 4 above, calculate the payment at maturity.

In this case, because the Final Basket Level is less than the Initial Basket Level and less than the Threshold Level, the payment at maturity (per $1,000 principal amount Note) is calculated as follows:

$1,000 + [$1,000 × (Basket Performance + Buffer Percentage)]

$1,000 + [$1,000 × (-43.16% + 34.00%)] = $908.40

Accordingly, the investor receives at maturity (subject to our credit risk) a cash payment of $908.40 per $1,000 principal amount Note that they hold.

 

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Hypothetical Examples of Amounts Payable at Maturity

The following table illustrates the hypothetical total return at maturity on the Notes. The “total return” as used in this pricing supplement is the number, expressed as a percentage, that results from comparing the payment at maturity per $1,000 principal amount Note to $1,000. The hypothetical total returns set forth below are for illustrative purposes only and may not be the actual total returns applicable to a purchaser of the Notes. The numbers appearing in the following table and examples have been rounded for ease of analysis. The hypothetical total returns set forth below are based on the Initial Basket Level of 100.00, the Buffer Percentage of 34.00% and the Threshold Level of 66.00. The examples below do not take into account any tax consequences from investing in the Notes.

For a detailed description of how the Basket Performance, Final Basket Level and Payment at Maturity will be calculated, please see “Illustrative Calculations of Basket Component Returns, Basket Value Contribution, Basket Performance, Final Basket Level and Payment at Maturity” above.

 

Basket Performance

 

Final Basket Level

 

Payment at Maturity

(per $1,000 principal amount Note)

 

Total Return

100.00%

  200.00   $2,000.00   100.00%

90.00%

  190.00   $1900.00   90.00%

80.00%

  180.00   $1,800.00   80.00%

70.00%

  170.00   $1,700.00   70.00%

60.00%

  160.00   $1,600.00   60.00%

50.00%

  150.00   $1,500.00   50.00%

40.00%

  140.00   $1,400.00   40.00%

30.00%

  130.00   $1,300.00   30.00%

20.00%

  120.00   $1,200.00   20.00%

10.00%

  110.00   $1,100.00   10.00%

0.00%

  100.00   $1,000.00   0.00%

-5.00%

  95.00   $1000.00   0.00%

-10.00%

  90.00   $1000.00   0.00%

-20.00%

  80.00   $1000.00   0.00%

-30.00%

  70.00   $1000.00   0.00%

-34.00%

  66.00   $1000.00   0.00%

-35.00%

  65.00   $990.00   -1.00%

-40.00%

  60.00   $940.00   -6.00%

-50.00%

  50.00   $840.00   -16.00%

-60.00%

  40.00   $740.00   -26.00%

-70.00%

  30.00   $640.00   -36.00%

-80.00%

  20.00   $540.00   -46.00%

-90.00%

  10.00   $440.00   -56.00%

-100.00%

  0.00   $340.00   -66.00%

Example 1: The level of the Basket increases from an Initial Basket Level of 100.00 to a Final Basket Level of 110.00.

In this case, because the Final Basket Level of 110.00 is greater than the Initial Basket Level of 100.00 and the Basket Performance is 10.00% the investor receives a payment at maturity of $1,100.00 per $1,000 principal amount Note, calculated as follows:

$1,000 + [$1,000 × Basket Performance]

$1,000 + [$1,000 × 10.00%] = $1,100.00

The total return on the investment of the Notes is 10.00%.

 

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Example 2: The level of the Basket decreases from an Initial Basket Level of 100.00 to a Final Basket Level of 80.00.

In this case, because the Final Basket Level of 80.00 is less than the Initial Basket Level of 100.00, but greater than or equal to the Threshold Level of 66.00, the investor receives a payment at maturity of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount Note.

The total return on investment of the Notes is 0.00%.

Example 3: The level of the Basket decreases from an Initial Basket Level of 100.00 to a Final Basket Level of 20.00.

Because the Final Basket Level of 20.00 is less than the Threshold Level of 66.00, the investor receives a payment at maturity of $540.00 per $1,000 principal amount Note calculated as follows:

$1,000 + [$1,000 × (Basket Performance + Buffer Percentage)]

$1,000 + [$1,000 × (-80.00% + 34.00%)] = $540.00

The total return on the investment of the Notes is -46.00%.

BASKET OVERVIEW

The Basket is designed to allow investors to participate in the weighted percentage changes in the closing levels of the Basket Components as measured from the Initial Basket Level to the Final Basket Level of the Basket. The Basket is composed of (i) two equity indices that track the large capitalization and small capitalization U.S. equity markets; (ii) seven equity-linked exchange traded funds that track the foreign developed markets, the foreign emerging markets, the Japanese equity markets, high yield dividend bearing U.S. equities, the largest and most actively traded domestic and international equities listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, and the health care and consumer staples sectors of the U.S. equity markets (iii) two bond-linked exchange traded funds that track inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. treasury and liquid, U.S. dollar-denominated, investment grade U.S. corporate bonds and (iii) a commodity-linked exchange traded fund that tracks futures contracts on fourteen commodities. The Basket Components are more fully described in the Section “Information about the Basket Components” below. Each Basket Component is assigned an initial weight on the pricing date, as set forth in the table above.

For more information on the calculation of the value of the Basket, please see section entitled “Illustrative Calculations of Basket Component Returns, Basket Value Contributions, Basket Performance, Final Basket Level and Payment at Maturity” above.

Hypothetical Historical Performance of the Basket

While actual historical information on the Basket will not exist before the pricing date, the following graph sets forth the hypothetical historical performance of the Basket from August 1, 2007 through February 13, 2013. The graph is based upon actual historical levels of the Basket Components, assuming the Basket Components are weighted as set out on the first page with an initial basket value of 100 on August 1, 2007. The actual Initial Value for each Basket Component will be set on the pricing date and will be different from those used in the graph, but the basket component weightings will remain the same. The graph illustrates the effect of the offset and/or correlation among the Basket Components during such period. Further, as a comparative reference, we have provided the performance of the S&P 500 Index (the most highly weighted Basket Component) for the same period, normalized with an initial value of 100 as of August 1, 2007.

 

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This hypothetical historical data on the Basket is not necessarily indicative of the future performance of the Basket or what the value of the Notes may be. Any historical upward or downward trend in the value of the Basket during any period set forth below is not an indication that the value of the Basket is more or less likely to increase or decrease at any time over the term of the notes.

SELECTED PURCHASE CONSIDERATIONS

 

   

Market Disruption Events—The Basket Final Valuation Date, the Maturity Date and the Payment at Maturity are subject to adjustment in the event of a Market Disruption Event with respect to any Basket Component. If the Calculation Agent determines that on the Basket Final Valuation Date, a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing with respect to any Basket Component, the Basket Final Valuation Date will be postponed. If such postponement occurs, the Final Values of the Basket Components shall be determined using the Closing Values of the Basket Components on the first following Reference Asset Business Day on which no Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing with respect to any Basket Component. In no event, however, will the Basket Final Valuation Date be postponed by more than five scheduled Reference Asset Business Days. If the Calculation Agent determines that a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing with respect to any Basket Component on such fifth day, the Calculation Agent will determine the Final Value of any Basket Component unaffected by such Market Disruption Event using the Closing Value of such Basket Component on such fifth day, and will make an estimate of the Closing Value of any Basket Component affected by such Market Disruption Event that would have prevailed on such fifth day in the absence of the Market Disruption Event.

 

   

For a description of what constitutes a market disruption event with respect to the Indices, see “Reference Assets—Indices—Market Disruption Events for Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Index or Indices of Equity Securities (with respect to the Indices)”;

 

   

For a description of what constitutes a Market Disruption Event with respect to the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, the iBoxx ETF and the iShares TIPS ETF, see “Reference Assets—Exchange-Traded Funds—Market Disruption Events for Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of Shares or Other Interests in an Exchange-Traded Fund or Exchange-Traded Funds”; and

 

   

For a description of what constitutes a Market Disruption Event with respect to each of the ETFs (other than the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, the iBoxx ETF and the iShares TIPS ETF, see “Reference Assets—Exchange-Traded Funds—Market Disruption Events for Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of Shares or Other Interests in an Exchange-Traded Fund or Exchange-Traded Funds Comprised of Equity Securities”.

 

   

Adjustments to the Basket—For a description of adjustments that may affect the Basket or one or more of the Basket Components, see the following sections of the prospectus supplement:

 

   

For a description of adjustments that may affect the Indices, see “Reference Assets—Indices—Adjustments Relating to Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Index”; and

 

   

For a description of adjustments that may affect the ETFs, see “Reference Assets—Exchange-Traded Funds—Adjustments Relating to Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Exchange-Traded Fund or Exchange-Traded Funds”.

 

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If on or prior to the Basket Final Valuation Date, the shares or other interests in any of the ETFs (or any successor fund) are de-listed or any of the ETFs (or any successor fund) are liquidated or otherwise terminated and the calculation agent determines that no successor fund is available, then Calculation Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to make an adjustment to the Initial Value or Final Value of the affected Basket Component or to the method of determining the applicable Basket Component Return, Basket Value Contribution or any other terms of the Notes as the Calculation Agent, in its sole discretion, determines appropriate to account for the de-listing, liquidation or termination, as applicable, would have had if the Notes represented an actual interest in such Basket Component equivalent to the notional interest of the Notes in the applicable Basket Component.

If the Calculation Agent elects not to make an adjustment as described in the preceding paragraph or determines that no adjustment that it could make will produce a commercially reasonable result, then the Calculation Agent shall cause the Maturity Date to be accelerated to the fourth business day following the date of that determination and the payment at maturity that you will receive on the Notes will be calculated as though the date of early repayment were the stated Maturity Date of the Notes and as though the Basket Final Valuation Date were the date of de-listing, liquidation or termination, as applicable (or, if such day is not a Reference Asset Business Day, the immediately preceding day that is a Reference Asset Business Day).

As used above, the terms “successor fund” has the meanings set forth under “Reference Assets—Exchange-Traded Funds—Adjustments Relating to Securities with the Reference Asset Comprised of an Exchange-Traded Fund or Exchange-Traded Funds” in the accompanying prospectus supplement.

 

   

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations—The material tax consequences of your investment in the Notes are summarized below. The discussion below supplements the discussion under “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” in the accompanying prospectus supplement. Except as noted under “Non-U.S. Holders” below, this section applies to you only if you are a U.S. holder (as defined in the accompanying prospectus supplement) and you hold your Notes as capital assets for tax purposes and does not apply to you if you are a member of a class of holders subject to special rules or are otherwise excluded from the discussion in the prospectus supplement (for example, if you did not purchase your Notes in the initial issuance of the Notes). In addition, this discussion does not apply to you if you purchase your Notes for less than the principal amount of the Notes.

In the opinion of our special tax counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, it would be reasonable to treat your Notes in the manner described below. This opinion assumes that the description of the terms of the Notes in this pricing supplement is materially correct.

The United States federal income tax consequences of your investment in the Notes are uncertain and the Internal Revenue Service could assert that the Notes should be taxed in a manner that is different than described below. Pursuant to the terms of the Notes, Barclays Bank PLC and you agree, in the absence of a change in law or an administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary, to characterize your Notes as a pre-paid cash-settled executory contract with respect to the Basket. Subject to the discussion of Section 1260 below, if your Notes are so treated, you should generally recognize capital gain or loss upon the sale or maturity of your Notes in an amount equal to the difference between the amount you receive at such time and the amount you paid for your Notes. Such gain or loss should generally be long-term capital gain or loss if you have held your Notes for more than one year.

Although not entirely clear, it is possible that the purchase and ownership of the Notes could be treated as a “constructive ownership transaction” that is subject to the constructive ownership rules of Section 1260 of the Internal Revenue Code to the extent the amount you receive in respect of the Notes relates to changes in the value of the ETFs. If your Notes were subject to the constructive ownership rules, then any long-term capital gain that you realize upon the sale or maturity of your Notes that is attributable to the appreciation of the ETFs over the term of your Notes would be recharacterized as ordinary income to the extent that such long-term capital gain exceeds the amount of long-term capital gain that you would have realized had you purchased the actual number of shares of the ETFs referenced by your Notes on the date that you purchased your Notes and sold those shares on the date of the sale or maturity of the Notes (the “Excess Gain Amount”), and you would be subject to an interest charge on the deferred tax liability with respect to such Excess Gain Amount. Furthermore, if another exchange traded fund is substituted for any ETF, there could be an Excess Gain Amount if you would have recognized short-term capital gain if you had directly owned that ETF and sold the ETF to purchase its substitute. You should be aware that, if the Notes are subject to the constructive ownership rules, the Excess Gain Amount could be presumed to be equal to all of the gain that you recognize in respect of the Notes (in which case all of such gain would be recharacterized as ordinary income that is subject to an interest charge) unless you provide clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. Because the application of the constructive ownership rules to the Notes is unclear, you are strongly urged to consult your tax advisor with respect to the possible application of the constructive ownership rules to your investment in the Notes.

 

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As discussed further in the accompanying prospectus supplement, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are actively considering various alternative treatments that may apply to instruments such as the Notes, possibly with retroactive effect. Other alternative treatments for your Notes may also be possible under current law. For example, it is possible that the Notes could be treated as a debt instrument that is subject to the special tax rules governing contingent payment debt instruments. If your Notes are so treated, you would be required to accrue interest income over the term of your Notes and you would recognize gain or loss upon the sale or maturity of your Notes in an amount equal to the difference, if any, between the amount you receive at such time and your adjusted basis in your Notes. Any gain you recognize upon the sale or maturity of your Notes would be ordinary income and any loss recognized by you at such time would generally be ordinary loss to the extent of interest you included in income in the current or previous taxable years with respect to your Notes, and thereafter would be capital loss.

For a further discussion of the tax treatment of your Notes as well as other possible alternative characterizations, please see the discussion under the heading “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations—Certain Notes Treated as Forward Contracts or Executory Contracts” in the accompanying prospectus supplement. You should consult your tax advisor as to the possible alternative treatments in respect of the Notes. For additional, important considerations related to tax risks associated with investing in the Notes, you should also examine the discussion in “Selected Risk Considerations—Taxes”, in this pricing supplement.

Specified Foreign Financial AssetReporting. Under legislation enacted in 2010, owners of “specified foreign financial assets” with an aggregate value in excess of $50,000 (and in some circumstances, a higher threshold) may be required to file an information report with respect to such assets with their tax returns. “Specified foreign financial assets” generally include any financial accounts maintained by foreign financial institutions, as well as any of the following (which may include your Notes), but only if they are not held in accounts maintained by financial institutions: (i) stocks and securities issued by non-U.S. persons, (ii) financial instruments and contracts held for investment that have non-U.S. issuers or counterparties and (iii) interests in foreign entities. Holders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of this legislation to their ownership of the Notes.

Non-U.S. Holders. The Treasury Department has issued proposed regulations under Section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code which could ultimately require us to treat all or a portion of any payment in respect of your Notes as a “dividend equivalent” payment that is subject to withholding tax at a rate of 30% (or a lower rate under an applicable treaty). You could also be required to make certain certifications in order to avoid or minimize such withholding obligations, and you could be subject to withholding (subject to your potential right to claim a refund from the Internal Revenue Service) if such certifications were not received or were not satisfactory. You should consult your tax advisor concerning the potential application of these regulations to payments you receive with respect to the Notes when these regulations are finalized.

SELECTED RISK CONSIDERATIONS

An investment in the Notes involves significant risks. Investing in the Notes is not equivalent to investing directly in the Basket Components. These risks are explained in more detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus supplement, including the risk factors discussed under the following headings:

 

   

“Risk Factors—Risks Relating to All Securities”;

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Securities Based on a Basket Comprised of More Than One Reference Asset”;

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Notes Which Are Not Characterized as Being Fully Principal Protected or Are Characterized as Being Partially Protected or Contingently Protected”;

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Notes Which Pay No Interest”;

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Securities with a Barrier Percentage or a Barrier Level”;

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Securities with Reference Assets That Are Equity Securities or Shares or Other Interests in Exchange-Traded Funds, That Contain Equity Securities or Shares or Other Interests in Exchange-Traded Funds or That Are Based in Part on Equity Securities or Shares or Other Interests in Exchange-Traded Funds.”

 

   

“Risk Factors—Additional Risks Relating to Securities with Reference Assets That Are Commodities, an Index Containing Commodities, Shares or Other Interests in an Exchange-Traded Fund Invested in Commodities or Based in Part on Commodities”;

In addition to the risks described above, you should consider the following:

 

   

Your Investment in the Notes May Result in Significant Loss; If the Basket Final Level is Less than the Threshold Level, You will Receive Less, And Possibly Significantly Less, Than Your Original Investment in the Notes at

 

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MaturityThe Notes do not guarantee any return of principal. The Notes provide for limited protection (subject to our credit risk) at maturity and only to the extent afforded by the Buffer Percentage. If the Basket Performance is negative, the payment at maturity of the Notes will depend on the extent to which the Final Basket Level declines from the Initial Basket Level. The Buffer Percentage is 34.00%. If the Basket Performance is less than -34.00%, you will lose 1% of the principal amount of your Notes for every 1% that the Basket Performance falls below -34.00%. As such, you may lose up to 66.00% of the principal amount of your Notes.

 

   

Credit of Issuer—The Notes are senior unsecured debt obligations of the Issuer, Barclays Bank PLC and are not, either directly or indirectly, an obligation of any third party. Any payment to be made on the Notes, including any principal due at maturity, depends on the ability of Barclays Bank PLC to satisfy its obligations as they come due and is not guaranteed by any third party. In the event Barclays Bank PLC were to default on its obligations, you may not receive any amounts owed to you under the terms of the Notes.

 

   

The Payment at Maturity of Your Notes is Not Based on the Value of the Basket Components at Any Time Other than the Closing Values of the Basket Components on the Basket Final Valuation Date—The Basket Component Return of each Basket Component (and, in turn, the Basket Contribution Values, Basket Performance and the Final Basket Level) will be based solely on the Final Value of each Basket Component as compared to the Initial Value of each Basket Component. Therefore, if the Closing Value of one or more of the Basket Components drops precipitously on the Basket Final Valuation Date, the payment at maturity, if any, that you will receive for your Notes may be significantly less than it would otherwise have been had such payment been linked to the values of the Basket Components at any time prior to such drop.

 

   

The Basket Components are Not Equally Weighted and the Weighted Performance of the Basket Components May Offset Each Other—Because the Basket Components are not equally weighted, the same percentage change in two or more of the Basket Components may have different effects on the Final Basket Level. For example, because the Basket Component weighting for the S&P 500 Index is considerably greater than the Basket Component weighting of any of the other Basket Components, any decrease in the value of the S&P 500 Index will have a significantly greater effect on the Final Basket Value than a comparable percentage increase in value of any of the other Basket Components. Therefore, in calculating the Final Basket Level, increases in the value of one or more of the lesser weighted Basket Components may be moderated, or wholly offset, by lesser increases or declines in the value of one or more of the other more highly weighted Basket Components. Because the S&P 500 Index alone makes up 34.50% of the Basket, you should expect that generally the market value of your Notes and your payment at maturity will depend significantly on the performance of the S&P 500 Index from the Basket Initial Valuation Date to the Basket Final Valuation Date.

 

   

Holding the Notes is not the Same as Owning Directly the Basket Components, or the Underlying Constituents of the Basket Components—Holding the Notes is not the same as investing directly in any of the Basket Components or components of the Basket Components. The return on your Notes will not reflect the return you would realize if you actually purchased the Basket Components or underlying components of the Basket Components. As a holder of the Notes, you will not have voting rights or rights to receive cash dividends or other distributions or other rights that holders of any of the ETFs, the underlying constituents of such ETFs, or the stocks comprising either of the Indices, would have.

 

   

Historical Performance of the Basket Components Should Not Be Taken as Any Indication of the Future Performance of the Basket Components Over the Term of the Notes—The historical performance of a Basket Component is not an indication of the future performance of that Basket Component over the term of the Notes. The historical correlation between Basket Components is not an indication of the future correlation between them over the term of the Notes. Therefore, the performance of the Basket over the term of the Notes may bear no relation or resemblance to the historical performance of any of the Basket Components.

 

   

Lack of Liquidity—The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange. Barclays Capital Inc. and other affiliates of Barclays Bank PLC intend to make a secondary market for the Notes but are not required to do so, and may discontinue any such secondary market making at any time, without notice. Barclays Capital Inc. may at any time hold unsold inventory, which may inhibit the development of a secondary market for the Notes. Even if there is a secondary market, it may not provide enough liquidity to allow you to trade or sell the Notes easily. Because other dealers are not likely to make a secondary market for the Notes, the price at which you may be able to trade your Notes is likely to depend on the price, if any, at which Barclays Capital Inc. and other affiliates of Barclays Bank PLC are willing to buy the Notes. The Notes are not designed to be short-term trading instruments. Accordingly, you should be able and willing to hold your Notes to maturity.

 

   

Potential Conflicts—We and our affiliates play a variety of roles in connection with the issuance of the Notes, including acting as Calculation Agent and hedging our obligations under the Notes. In performing these duties, the economic interests of the Calculation Agent and other affiliates of ours are potentially adverse to your interests as an investor in the Notes.

 

   

Taxes—The U.S. federal income tax treatment of the Notes is uncertain and the Internal Revenue Service could assert that the Notes should be taxed in a manner that is different than described above. As discussed further in the accompanying prospectus supplement, the Internal Revenue Service issued a notice in 2007 indicating that it and the Treasury Department are actively considering whether, among other issues, you should be required to accrue interest over the term of an instrument such as the Notes and whether all or part of the gain you may recognize upon the sale or maturity of an instrument such as the Notes could be treated as ordinary income. Similarly, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have current projects open with regard to the tax treatment of pre-paid forward contracts and contingent notional principal contracts. While

 

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it is impossible to anticipate how any ultimate guidance would affect the tax treatment of instruments such as the Notes (and while any such guidance may be issued on a prospective basis only), such guidance could be applied retroactively and could in any case increase the likelihood that you will be required to accrue income over the term of an instrument such as the Notes even though you will not receive any payments with respect to the Notes until maturity. The outcome of this process is uncertain. You should consult your tax advisor as to the possible alternative treatments in respect of the Notes.

 

   

Certain Built-In Costs Are Likely to Adversely Affect the Value of the Notes Prior to Maturity—While the payment at maturity described in this pricing supplement is based on the full principal amount of your Notes, the original issue price of the Notes includes the agent’s commission and the cost of hedging our obligations under the Notes through one or more of our affiliates. As a result, the price, if any, at which Barclays Capital Inc. and other affiliates of Barclays Bank PLC will be willing to purchase Notes from you in secondary market transactions will likely be lower than the price you paid for your Notes, and any sale prior to the Maturity Date could result in a substantial loss to you.

 

   

Adjustments to the Indices or ETFs (including underlying indices tracked by the ETFs) could adversely affect the value of the Notes—Those responsible for calculating and maintaining the Indices or ETFs or the underlying indices tracked by the ETFs can add, delete or substitute the components of the Indices or ETFs (or the underlying indices tracked by the ETFs), or make other methodological changes that could change the value of the Indices or ETFs (or the underlying indices tracked by the ETFs). In addition, the publisher of an Index may discontinue or suspend calculation or publication of such Index or any of the ETFs may be delisted from their relevant exchange or liquidated or otherwise terminated at any time. Any of these actions could adversely affect the value of the Basket Components and, consequently, the value of the Notes. For a description of the actions that may be taken by the Calculation Agent in the event that an Index publisher discontinues or suspends calculation of an Index or an ETF is liquidated or otherwise terminated, please see “Selected Purchase Considerations—Adjustments to the Basket” in this pricing supplement.

 

   

Many Unpredictable Factors, Including Economic and Market Factors, Will Impact the Value of the Notes—In addition to the value of the Basket Components on any day, and in addition to the factors set forth above, the value of the Notes will be affected by a number of unpredictable factors including economic and market factors that interrelate in complex ways and the effect of one factor on the value of the Notes may either offset or magnify the effect of another factor, including:

 

   

the performance of the Basket, the performance of any of the Basket Components and the volatility of the values of the Basket Components;

 

   

the time to maturity of the Notes;

 

   

the dividend rate on the Basket Components (including the dividend rate on the common stocks underlying the Indices);

 

   

interest and yield rates in the market generally;

 

   

a variety of economic, financial, political, regulatory or judicial events;

 

   

our financial condition and hedging activities;

 

   

supply and demand for the Notes; and

 

   

our creditworthiness, including actual or anticipated downgrades in our credit ratings.

Selected Risk Considerations Related to the Basket Components

The values of the Basket Components can rise or fall sharply due to factors specific to each such Basket Component and its issuer, such as stock price volatility, earnings, financial conditions, corporate, industry and regulatory developments, management changes and decisions and other events, as well as general market factors, such as general stock market volatility and levels, interest rates and economic and political conditions. There are specific risks associated with each of these Basket Components and the most significant of these risks are highlighted in the risk factors below:

 

   

Certain Features of Exchange-Traded Funds Will Impact the Value of the ETFs and the Value of the Notes:

 

   

Management risk. This is the risk that the respective investment strategies for the ETFs, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may not produce the intended results. An investment in a exchange-traded fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund of equity securities traded on an exchange, such as market fluctuations caused by such factors as economic and political developments, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in security prices. However, because the ETFs are not “actively” managed, they generally do not take defensive positions in declining markets or would not sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble. Therefore, the performance of the ETFs could be lower than other types of mutual funds that may actively shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or to lessen the impact of a market decline.

 

   

Derivatives risk. ETFs may invest in futures contracts, options on futures contracts, other types of options and swaps and other derivatives. A derivative is a financial contract, the value of which depends on, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset such as commodities. Compared to conventional securities, derivatives can be more sensitive to changes in interest rates or to sudden fluctuations in market prices, and thus the ETF’s losses, and, as a consequence, the losses of your Notes, may be greater than if the ETFs invested only in conventional securities.

 

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Exchange-Traded Funds May Underperform Their Respective Underlying Assets/IndicesThe performance of the ETFs may not replicate the performance of, and may underperform, their respective underlying assets or indices. ETFs will reflect transaction costs and fees that will reduce their relative performances. Moreover, it is also possible that the ETFs may not fully replicate or may, in certain circumstances, diverge significantly from the performance of their respective underlying assets or indices. Because the return on your Notes is linked to the weighted performance of the ETFs and not their underlying assets, the return on your Notes may be less than that of an alternative investment linked directly to the underlying assets of the ETFs or the stocks comprising the underlying indices of the ETFs.

 

   

Certain Consideration Related to ETFs or Indices that Invest In, or Whose Underlying Constituents Are, Non- U.S. Securities that Trade in Non-U.S. Markets, Including Emerging Markets—Some or all of the equity securities that are held by the MSCI EAFE ETF, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF and the MSCI Japan ETF, three of the Basket Components, have been issued by non- U.S. issuers. In addition, the iBoxx ETF, which is also a Basket Component, may include U.S. dollar- denominated bonds of foreign corporations. Investments in securities linked to the value of non-U.S. securities involve risks associated with the securities markets in those countries. In particular securities issued by foreign companies in foreign securities markets may be more volatile and may be subject to different political, market, economic, exchange rate, regulatory and other risks which may have a negative impact on the performance of the financial products linked to such securities, which may have an adverse effect on the Notes. Also, the public availability of information concerning the issuers of such securities will vary depending on their home jurisdiction and the reporting requirements imposed by their respective regulators. In addition, the issuers of these securities may be subject to accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and requirement that differ from those applicable to United States reporting companies. The economies of emerging market countries in particular face several concerns. In particular, many emerging nations are undergoing rapid institutional change, involving the restructuring of economic, political, financial and legal systems. Regulatory and tax environments may be subject to change without review or appeal. Many emerging markets suffer from underdevelopment of capital markets and tax regulation. The risk of expropriation and nationalization remains a threat. Guarding against such risks is made more difficult by low levels of corporate disclosure and unreliability of economic and financial data.

 

   

Currency Exchange Risk—Because the prices of some or all of the securities composing three of the twelve Basket Components (the MSCI EAFE ETF, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF and MSCI Japan ETF) (the “Component Securities”) are converted into U.S. dollars for the purposes of calculating the value of the relevant Basket Components, holders of the Notes will be exposed to currency exchange rate risk with respect to each of the relevant currencies. An investor’s net exposure will depend on the extent to which such currencies strengthen or weaken against the U.S. dollar and the weight of the Component Securities in the relevant Basket Components denominated in each such currency. If, taking into account such weighting, the U.S. dollar strengthens against those currencies, the value of the relevant Basket Component will be adversely affected and any return on the Notes may be reduced.

 

   

Certain Considerations Related to Equity Indices Whose Underlying Constituents are Small Capitalization Stocks. The stocks that constitute the Russell 2000 Index are issued by companies with relatively small market capitalization. The stock prices of smaller companies may be more volatile than stock prices of large capitalization companies. Small capitalization companies may be less able to withstand adverse economic, market, trade and competitive conditions relative to larger companies. Small capitalization companies are less likely to pay dividends on their stocks, and the presence of a dividend payment could be a factor that limits downward stock price pressure under adverse market conditions.

 

   

Certain Considerations Related to ETFs Concentrated in a Particular Sector—The equity securities held by the Health Care Select Sector ETF and the Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF are issued by companies that are concentrated in the health care industry and consumer products industry, respectively. Consequently, the value of these particular ETFs may be subject to greater volatility and be more adversely affected by a single economic, environmental, political or regulatory occurrence affecting such industries than an exchange-traded fund linked to a more broadly diversified group of underlying constituents. Stock prices for these types of companies are affected by supply and demand both for their specific product or service and for health care or consumer products in general.

 

   

Certain Considerations Related to the Health Care Select Sector ETF—The Health Care Select Sector ETF invests in companies in the health care sector, which are subject to extensive government regulation and their profitability can be significantly affected by a number of complex and interrelated issues, including, among other things, restrictions on government reimbursement for medical expenses, costs of providing medical products and services, competitive pricing pressures, dependency on limited numbers of products, costs relating to patent protection, political changes in the role of the federal or state governments in the health care sector, the costs of litigation based on product liability and patient claims and regulatory developments relating to the health care sector generally. Any adverse developments in the health care sector resulting from such factors may have a negative effect on the companies comprising the Health Care Select Sector ETF and, accordingly, on the value of your Notes.

 

   

Certain Considerations Related to Fixed-Income Securities, Including Interest Rate-Related and Credit-Related Risks. Two of the Basket Components (the iBoxx ETF and the iShares TIPS ETF, which we collectively refer to as the “Bond ETFs”) are bond-linked ETFs that attempt to track the performance of indices composed of fixed income securities. Investing in the notes linked indirectly to these Basket Components differs significantly from investing directly in bonds to be held to

 

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maturity as the values of the Bond ETFs change, at times significantly, during each trading day based upon the current market prices of their underlying bonds. The market prices of these bonds are volatile and significantly influenced by a number of factors, particularly the yields on these bonds as compared to current market interest rates and the actual or perceived credit quality of the issuer of these bonds.

In general, fixed-income securities are significantly affected by changes in current market interest rates. As interest rates rise, the price of fixed-income securities, including those underlying the Bond ETFs, is likely to decrease. Securities with longer durations tend to be more sensitive to interest rate changes, usually making them more volatile than securities with shorter durations. The eligibility criteria for the securities included in the indices that underlie the Bond ETFs, which each mandate that each security must have a minimum term remaining to maturity for continued eligibility, means that, at any time, only longer-term securities underlie the Bond ETFs, which thereby increases the risk of price volatility in the underlying securities and, consequently, the volatility in the value of the Bond ETF. As a result, rising interest rates may cause the value of the bonds underlying the Bond ETFs, the Bond ETFs and, therefore, the Notes, to decline.

Interest rates are subject to volatility due to a variety of factors, including:

 

   

sentiment regarding underlying strength in the U.S. economy and global economies;

 

   

expectations regarding the level of price inflation;

 

   

sentiment regarding credit quality in the U.S. and global credit markets;

 

   

central bank policies regarding interest rates; and

 

   

the performance of U.S. and foreign capital markets.

In addition, the prices of the underlying bonds are significantly influenced by the creditworthiness of the issuers of the bonds. The bonds underlying the Bond ETFs may have their credit ratings downgraded, including in the case of the bonds included in the iBoxx ETF, a downgrade from investment grade to non-investment grade status, or have their credit spreads widen significantly. Following a ratings downgrade or the widening of credit spreads, some or all of the underlying bonds may suffer significant and rapid price declines. These events may affect only a few or a large number of the underlying bonds. For example, during the recent credit crisis in the United States, credit spreads widened significantly as the market demanded very high yields on corporate bonds and, as a result, the prices of the bonds underlying the Bond ETFs dropped significantly. There can be no assurance that some or all of the factors that contributed to this credit crisis will not continue or return during the term of the notes, and, consequently, depress the price, perhaps significantly, of the underlying bonds and therefore the value of the Bond ETFs, the and the notes.

 

   

Certain Considerations Related to Exchange Traded Funds Invested in Commodities and/or Commodities Futures Contracts such as the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF.

 

   

Prices of Commodities and Commodity Futures Contracts are Highly Volatile and May Change Unpredictably—Commodity prices are highly volatile and, in many sectors, have experienced unprecedented historical volatility in the past few years. Commodity prices are affected by numerous factors including: changes in supply and demand relationships (whether actual, perceived, anticipated, unanticipated or unrealized); weather; agriculture; trade; fiscal, monetary and exchange control programs; domestic and foreign political and economic events and policies; disease; pestilence; technological developments; changes in interest rates, whether through governmental action or market movements; monetary and other governmental policies, action and inaction; macroeconomic or geopolitical and military events, including political instability in some oil-producing countries; and natural or nuclear disasters. Those events tend to affect prices worldwide, regardless of the location of the event. Market expectations about these events and speculative activity also cause prices to fluctuate. These factors may adversely affect the performance of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF and, as a result, the market value of the Notes, and the payment you will receive on the Notes, if any.

Moreover, the prices of many of the commodities, particularly energy and agricultural commodities, reached historically high levels in 2009. Since reaching such highs, prices have fallen precipitously, to approximately 25% of their historic highs, in some cases, and prices have experienced unprecedented volatility since that time. In the case of many commodities, recent prices have also risen substantially, although they have not reached their historically high levels. There is no assurance that prices will again reach their historically high levels or that volatility will subside. It is possible that lower prices, or increased volatility, will adversely affect the performance of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF and, as a result, the market value of the Notes.

 

   

Suspension or Disruptions of Market Trading in Commodities and Related Futures May Adversely Affect the Value of the NotesThe commodity futures markets are subject to temporary distortions or other disruptions due to various factors, including the lack of liquidity in the markets, the participation of speculators and government regulation and intervention. In addition, U.S. futures exchanges and some foreign exchanges have regulations that limit the amount of fluctuation in some futures contract prices that may occur during a single business day. These limits are generally referred to as “daily price fluctuation limits” and the maximum or minimum price of a contract on any given day as a

 

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result of these limits is referred to as a “limit price”. Once the limit price has been reached in a particular contract, no trades may be made at a price beyond the limit, or trading may be limited for a set period of time. Limit prices have the effect of precluding trading in a particular contract or forcing the liquidation of contracts at potentially disadvantageous times or prices. These circumstances could adversely affect the value of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF and, therefore, the value of the Notes.

 

   

Changes in Law or Regulation Relating to Commodity Futures Contracts May Adversely Affect the Market Value of the Notes and the Amounts Payable on your Notes—The commodity futures contracts that underlie the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF are subject to legal and regulatory regimes that are in the process of changing in the United States and, in some cases, in other countries. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the “Dodd-Frank Act”, provides for substantial changes in the regulation of the futures and over-the-counter derivatives markets. Among other things, the Dodd-Frank Act is intended to limit speculation and increase transparency in the commodity markets and regulate the over-the-counter derivatives markets. The legislation requires regulators, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”), to adopt rules on a variety of issues and many provisions of the legislation will not become effective until such rules are adopted. While The CFTC has proposed and adopted many of the required regulations, the Dodd-Frank regulatory scheme has not yet been implemented and the ultimate nature, scope and impact of the regulations on the markets and market participants cannot yet be determined.

Among other things, the legislation requires that most over-the-counter transactions be executed on organized exchanges or facilities and be cleared through regulated clearing houses, and requires registration of, and imposes regulations on, swap dealers and major swap participants. The legislation also requires the CFTC to adopt rules with respect to the establishment of limits on futures positions that are not entered into or maintained for “bona fide” hedging purposes, as defined in the legislation and the CFTC has adopted such rules, although they have not yet become effective. The legislation also requires the CFTC to apply its position limits across the futures positions held by a market participant on any exchange or trading facility, together with its positions in swaps that are “economically equivalent” to the specified exchange-traded futures that are subject to the position limits. The enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, and the CFTC’s adoption of rules on position limits, could limit the extent to which entities can enter into transactions in exchange-traded futures contracts as well as related swaps and could make participation in the markets more burdensome and expensive. Any such limitations could restrict or prevent our ability to hedge our obligations under the Notes. Industry trade groups have filed a lawsuit against the CFTC challenging the rules adopted by the CFTC on position limits, and the outcome of that litigation is yet to be seen as of the date of this filing. If the CFTC prevails in the lawsuit and the rules on position limits are upheld, those restrictions on effecting transactions in the futures markets could substantially reduce liquidity and increase market volatility in the commodities futures contracts that underlie the Commodity Indices, which could adversely affect the prices of such contracts and, in turn, the market value of the Notes and the amounts payable on the Notes at maturity or upon redemption. In addition, other parts of the legislation, by increasing regulation of, and imposing additional costs on, swap transactions, could reduce trading in the swap market and therefore in the futures markets, which would further restrict liquidity, increase volatility and adversely affect prices.

Other regulatory organizations have proposed, and in the future may propose, further reforms similar to those enacted by the Dodd-Frank Act or other legislation which could have an adverse impact on the liquidity and depth of the commodities, futures and derivatives markets. For example, the European Commission recently published a proposal developed by the European Securities and Markets Authority, the successor to the Committee of European Securities Regulators, which updates the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, commonly known as “MiFID II,” and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, commonly known as “MiFIR.” The scope of the final regulations and the degree to which member states will be allowed discretion in implementing the directive is yet to be seen. If these regulations are adopted, including, for example, regulations requiring position limits, they could substantially reduce liquidity and increase volatility in the commodities futures contracts that underlie the Commodity Indices, which could adversely affect the prices of such contracts and, in turn, the market value of the Notes and the amounts payable on the Notes at maturity or upon redemption.

 

   

Higher futures prices of the commodity futures contracts held by the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF relative to the current prices of such contracts may affect the price of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF and the value of the Notes. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF holds futures contracts on physical commodities. As the exchange-traded futures contracts held by the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF approach expiration, they are replaced by contracts that have a later expiration. If the market for these contracts is (putting aside other considerations) in “contango,” where the prices are higher in the distant delivery months than in the nearer delivery months, the purchase of, for example, a contract for delivery in November would take place at a price that is higher than the price of a contract for delivery in October, thereby creating a negative “roll yield.” Contango could adversely affect the price of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF and thus the value of Notes.

 

   

The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF does not offer direct exposure to commodity spot prices. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF holds commodity futures contracts, not physical commodities (and thus reflects the futures

 

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contracts’ prices verses the spot prices of the referenced commodity). The price movements of a futures contract are typically correlated with the movements of the spot price of the referenced commodity, but the correlation is generally imperfect and price movements in the spot market may not be reflected in the futures market (and vice versa). Accordingly, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF may underperform a similar investment that tracks or whose constituents are based on commodity spot prices.

 

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE BASKET COMPONENTS

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the Basket Components from the publicly available documents referenced in each section. In connection with the offering of the Notes, neither Barclays Bank PLC nor the agent has participated in the preparation of such documents or made any due diligence inquiry with respect to the Basket Components. Neither we nor the agent makes any representation that such publicly available documents or any other publicly available information regarding the Basket Components is accurate or complete. Furthermore, we cannot give any assurance that all events occurring prior to the date hereof (including events that would affect the accuracy or completeness of the publicly available documents described in the following paragraphs) that would affect the value of the Basket Components (and therefore the value of the Basket Components at the time we price the Notes) have been publicly disclosed. Subsequent disclosure of any such events or the disclosure of or failure to disclose material future events concerning the Basket Components could affect the value received at maturity with respect to the Notes and therefore the trading prices of the Notes. As a prospective purchaser of the Notes, you should undertake an independent investigation of the Basket Components as in your judgment is appropriate to make an informed decision with respect to an investment linked to the Basket Components.

You should not assume that the information included in this pricing supplement is accurate as of any date other than the date noted and in no case as of any date subsequent to the date on the front cover of this pricing supplement.

Defined terms used in any section below shall apply solely to such section.

We urge you to review financial and other information filed periodically with the SEC by the issuer of each Basket Component which we have referenced below.

 

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Basket Components that are Indices:

S&P 500® INDEX

The S&P 500® Index is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 U.S. stocks. It is designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of the 500 constituent stocks representing all major industries. The top 5 industry groups by market capitalization as of June 30, 2012 were: Information Technology, Financials, Health Care, Energy and Industrials. For additional information about the S&P 500® Index, see the information set forth under “Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—S&P 500® Index” in the accompanying index supplement.

Historical Information Regarding the S&P 500® Index

The following table sets forth the high and low closing levels of the S&P 500® Index, as well as end-of-quarter closing levels, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
     Quarterly
Low
     Quarterly
Close
 

June 30, 2006

     1325.76000         1223.68994         1270.20000   

September 29, 2006

     1339.15000         1234.48999         1335.85000   

December 29, 2006

     1427.09000         1331.31995         1418.30000   

March 30, 2007

     1459.68010         1374.12000         1420.86000   

June 29, 2007

     1539.18010         1420.85999         1503.35000   

September 28, 2007

     1553.08000         1406.69995         1526.75000   

December 31, 2007

     1565.15000         1407.21997         1468.36000   

March 31, 2008

     1468.36000         1273.37000         1322.70000   

June 30, 2008

     1426.63000         1278.38000         1280.00000   

September 30, 2008

     1305.31990         1106.39099         1166.36000   

December 31, 2008

     1166.36000         752.44000         903.25000   

March 31, 2009

     934.70000         676.53003         797.87000   

June 30, 2009

     946.21000         797.87000         919.32000   

September 30, 2009

     1071.66000         879.13000         1057.08000   

December 31, 2009

     1127.78000         1025.20996         1115.10000   

March 31, 2010

     1174.17000         1056.73999         1169.43000   

June 30, 2010

     1217.28000         1030.70996         1030.71000   

September 30, 2010

     1148.67000         1022.58002         1141.20000   

December 31, 2010

     1259.78000         1137.03003         1257.64000   

March 31, 2011

     1343.01000         1256.88000         1325.83000   

June 30, 2011

     1363.61000         1265.42004         1320.64000   

September 30, 2011

     1353.22000         1119.45996         1131.42000   

December 30, 2011

     1285.09000         1099.22998         1257.60000   

March 30, 2012

     1416.51000         1257.59998         1408.47000   

June 29, 2012

     1419.04380         1278.04468         1362.16000   

September 28, 2012

     1465.77390         1334.75671         1440.67000   

December 31, 2012

     1461.40000         1353.32996         1426.19000   

February 13, 2013*

     1520.33000         1426.18994         1520.33000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of S&P 500® Index the based on daily closing levels from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing level of the S&P 500® Index on February 13, 2013 was 1,520.33.

 

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We obtained the S&P 500® Index closing levels above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical levels of the S&P 500® Index should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the S&P 500® Index on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the S&P 500® Index will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

RUSSELL 2000® INDEX

All information regarding the Russell 2000® Index set forth in this pricing supplement reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Russell Investments (“Russell”), the index sponsor. The Russell 2000® Index was developed by Russell and is calculated, maintained and published by Russell. The Russell 2000® Index is reported by Bloomberg under the ticker symbol “RTY <Index>”.

The Russell 2000® Index is designed to track the performance of the small capitalization segment of the U.S. equity market. As a subset of the Russell 3000® Index (the “Russell 3000”), it consists of approximately 2,000 of the smallest companies (based on a combination of their market capitalization and the current index membership) included in the Russell 3000 and represented, as of June 30, 2012, approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000. The Russell 3000, in turn, comprises the 3,000 largest U.S. companies as measured by total market capitalization, which together represented, as of June 30, 2012, approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market.

Selection of Stocks Underlying the Russell 2000® Index

Security Inclusion Criteria

 

   

U.S. company. All companies eligible for inclusion in the Russell 2000® Index must be classified as a U.S. company under Russell’s country-assignment methodology. If a company is incorporated, has a stated headquarters location, and company stock trades in the same country (American Depositary Receipts and American Depositary Shares are not eligible for this purpose), then the company is assigned to its country of incorporation. If any of the three factors are not the same, Russell defines three Home Country Indicators (“HCIs”): country of incorporation, country of headquarters, and country of the most liquid exchange as defined by a two-year average daily dollar trading volume (“ADDTV”) from all exchanges within a country. After the HCIs are defined, the next step in the country assignment involves an analysis of assets by location. Russell cross-compares the primary location of the company’s assets with the three HCIs. If the primary location of its assets matches any of the HCIs, then the company is assigned to the primary location of its assets. If there is insufficient information to determine the country in which the company’s assets are primarily located, Russell will use the primary location of the company’s revenues to cross-compare with the three HCIs and assign a country in a similar manner. Beginning in 2011, Russell will use the average of two years of assets or revenues data, in order to reduce potential turnover. Assets and revenues data are retrieved from each company’s annual report as of the last trading day in May. If conclusive country details cannot be derived from assets or revenues data, Russell will assign the company to the country of its

 

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headquarters, which is defined as the address of the company’s principal executive offices, unless that country is a Benefit Driven Incorporation “BDI” country, in which case the company will be assigned to the country of its most liquid stock exchange. BDI countries include: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Cook Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, and Turks and Caicos Islands. For any companies incorporated or headquartered in a U.S. territory, including countries such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands, a U.S. HCI is assigned.

 

   

Trading requirements. All securities eligible for inclusion in the Russell 3000 must trade on a major U.S. exchange. Bulletin Board, pink-sheet or over-the-counter traded securities are not eligible for inclusion.

 

   

Minimum closing price. Stock must trade at or above US$1.00 on their primary exchange on the last trading day in May to be considered eligible for inclusion in the Russell 3000 during annual reconstitution or during initial public offering (IPO) eligibility. If a stock’s closing price is less than US$1.00 on the last day of May, it will be considered eligible if the average of the daily closing prices (from its primary exchange) during the month of May is equal to or greater than US$1.00. Nonetheless, a stock’s closing price (on its primary exchange) on the last trading day in May will be used to calculate market capitalization and index membership. Initial public offerings are added each quarter and must have a closing price at or above US$1.00 on the last day of their eligibility period in order to qualify for index inclusion.

 

   

Primary exchange pricing. If a stock, new or existing, does not have a closing price at or above US$1.00 (on its primary exchange) on the last trading day in May, but does have a closing price at or above US$1.00 on another major U.S. exchange, that stock will be eligible for inclusion.

 

   

Minimum total market capitalization. Companies with a total market capitalization of less than US$30 million are not eligible for the Russell 2000® Index.

 

   

Minimum available shares/float requirement. Companies with only a small portion of their shares available in the marketplace are not eligible for the Russell Indices. Companies with 5% or less will be removed from eligibility.

 

   

Company structure. Royalty trusts, limited liability companies, closed-end investment companies, blank check companies, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and limited partnerships are excluded from inclusion in the Russell 3000. Business development companies (BDCs) are eligible.

 

   

Shares excluded. Preferred stock, convertible preferred stock, redeemable shares, participating preferred stock, warrant rights and trust receipts are not eligible for inclusion.

 

   

Deadline for inclusion. Stocks must be listed on the last trading day in May and Russell must have access to documentation on that date supporting the company’s eligibility for inclusion. This information includes corporate description, verification of incorporation, number of shares outstanding and other information needed to determine eligibility. IPOs will be considered for inclusion on a quarterly basis.

All Russell indices, including the Russell 2000® Index, are reconstituted annually to reflect changes in the marketplace. The companies that meet the eligibility criteria are ranked on the last trading day of May of every year based on market capitalization using data available at that time, with the reconstitution taking effect as of the first trading day following the last Friday of June of that year. If the last Friday in June is the 28th, 29th or 30th day of June, reconstitution will occur the Friday prior.

Market Capitalization

The primary criteria used to determine the initial list of common stocks eligible for inclusion in the Russell 3000, and thus the Russell 2000® Index, is total market capitalization, which is calculated by multiplying the total outstanding shares by the market price as of the last trading day in May for those securities being considered for the purposes of the annual reconstitution. IPO eligibility is determined each quarter.

 

   

Determining total shares outstanding. Only common stock is used to determine market capitalization for a company. Any other form of shares, including preferred stock, convertible preferred stock, redeemable shares, participating preferred stock, warrants and rights or trust receipts, are excluded from the calculation. If multiple share classes of common stock exist, they are combined. In cases where the common stock share classes act independently of each other (e.g., tracking stocks), each class is considered for inclusion separately.

 

   

Determining price. During each annual reconstitution, the last traded price on the last trading day in May of that year from the primary exchange is used to determine market capitalization. If a security does not trade on its primary exchange, the lowest price from another major U.S. exchange is used. In the case where multiple share classes exist, the primary trading vehicle is identified and used to determine price. For new members, the common share class with the highest trading volume will be considered the primary trading vehicle, and its associated price and trading symbol will be included in the Russell 2000® Index.

 

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Capitalization Adjustments

A security’s shares are adjusted to include only those shares available to the public, often referred to as “free float”. The purpose of this adjustment is to exclude from market calculations the capitalization that is not available for purchase and is not part of the investable opportunity set. Stocks are weighted in all Russell indices, including the Russell 2000® Index, by their float-adjusted market capitalization, which is calculated by multiplying the primary closing price by the available shares.

The following types of shares are removed from total market capitalization to arrive at free float or available market capitalization:

 

   

Cross ownership. Shares held by another member of a Russell index are considered cross-owned and all such shares will be adjusted regardless of percentage held.

 

   

Large corporate and private holdings. Shares held by another listed company (non-member) or private individuals will be adjusted if greater than 10% of shares outstanding. Share percentage is determined either by those shares held by an individual or a group of individuals acting together. For example, officers and directors holdings would be summed together to determine if they exceed 10%. However, not included in this class are institutional holdings, including investment companies, partnerships, insurance companies, mutual funds, banks or venture capital funds.

 

   

Employee stock ownership plan shares. Corporations that have employee stock ownership plans that comprise 10% or more of the shares outstanding are adjusted.

 

   

Unlisted share classes. Classes of common stock that are not traded on a U.S. exchange are adjusted.

 

   

IPO lock-ups. Shares locked-up during an IPO are not available to the public and are thus excluded from the market value at the time the IPO enters the Russell indices.

 

   

Government holdings. Holdings listed as “government of” are considered unavailable and will be removed entirely from available shares. Shares held by government investment boards and/or investment arms will be treated similar to large private holdings and removed if the holding is greater than 10%. Any holding by a government pension fund is considered institutional holdings and will not be removed from available shares.

Corporate Actions Affecting the Russell 2000® Index

Changes to all Russell U.S. indices, including the Russell 2000® Index, are made when an action is final.

 

   

“No replacement” rule. Securities that leave the Index, between reconstitution dates, for any reason (e.g., mergers, acquisitions or other similar corporate activity) are not replaced. Thus, the number of securities in the Index over a year may fluctuate according to corporate activity.

 

   

Mergers and acquisitions. Merger and acquisition activity results in changes to the membership and weighting of members within the Russell 2000® Index.

 

   

Re-incorporations. Members of the Russell 2000® Index that are re-incorporated to another country are analyzed for country assignment the following year during reconstitution, as long as they continue to trade in the U.S. Companies that re-incorporate and no longer trade in the U.S. are immediately deleted from the Russell 2000® Index and placed in the appropriate country within the Russell Global Index. Those that re-incorporate to the U.S. during the year will be assessed during reconstitution for membership.

 

   

Re-classifications of shares (primary vehicles). Primary vehicles will not be assessed or change outside of a reconstitution period unless the existing class ceases to exist. In the event of extenuating circumstances signalling a necessary primary vehicle change, proper notification will be made.

 

   

Rights offerings. Rights offered to shareholders are reflected in the Russell 2000® Index the date the offer expires for non-transferable rights and on the ex-date for transferable rights. In both cases, the price is adjusted to account for the value of the right on the ex-date, and shares are increased according to the terms of the offering on that day. Rights issued in anticipation of a takeover event, or “poison pill” rights are excluded from this treatment and no price adjustment is made for their issuance or redemption.

 

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Changes to shares outstanding. Changes to shares outstanding due to buyback (including Dutch Auctions), secondary offerings, merger activity with a non- Index member and other potential changes are updated at the end of the month (with the sole exception of June) which the change is reflected in vendor supplied updates and verified by Russell using an SEC filing. For a change in shares to occur, the cumulative change to available shares must be greater than 5%.

 

   

Spin-offs. The only additions between reconstitution dates are as a result of spin-offs, reincorporations and IPOs. Spin-off companies are added to the Russell 2000® Index if warranted by the market capitalization of the spin-off company.

 

   

Tender offers. A company acquired as the result of a tender offer is removed when the tender offer has fully expired and it is determined the company will finalize the process with a short form merger. Shares of the acquiring company, if a member of the Russell 2000® Index, will be increased simultaneously.

 

   

Delisting. Only companies listed on U.S. exchanges are included in the Russell 2000® Index. Therefore, when a company is delisted from a U.S. exchange and moved to over-the-counter trading, the company is removed from the Russell 2000® Index.

 

   

Bankruptcy and voluntary liquidations. Companies that file for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy or file any other liquidation plan will be removed from the Russell 2000® Index at the time of the filing. Companies filing for a Chapter 11 re-organization bankruptcy will remain a member of the Russell 2000® Index, unless delisted from their primary exchange. In that case, normal delisting rules will apply.

 

   

Stock distributions. Stock distributions can take two forms: (1) a stated amount of stock distributed on the ex-date or (2) an undetermined amount of stock based on earnings and profits on a future date. In both cases, a price adjustment is made on the ex-date of the distribution. Shares are increased on the ex-date for category (1) and on the pay-date for category (2).

 

   

Dividends. Gross dividends are included in the daily total return calculation of the Russell 2000® Index based on their ex-dates. The ex-date is used rather than the pay-date because the market place price adjustment for the dividend occurs on the ex-date. Monthly, quarterly and annual total returns are calculated by compounding the reinvestment of dividends daily. The reinvestment and compounding is at the total index level, not at the security level. Stock prices are adjusted to reflect special cash dividends on the ex-date. If a dividend is payable in stock and cash and the stock rate cannot be determined by the ex-date, the dividend is treated as cash.

 

   

Halted securities. Halted securities are not removed from the Russell 2000® Index until the time they are actually delisted from the exchange. If a security is halted, it remains in the Index at the last traded price from the primary exchange until the time the security resumes trading or is officially delisted.

Additional information on the Russell 2000® Index is available on the following website: http://www.russell.com. No information on the website shall be deemed to be included or incorporated by reference in this pricing supplement.

License Agreement

Barclays Bank PLC has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with the Russell Investments (“Russell”) whereby we, in exchange for a fee, are permitted to use the Russell 2000 Index and its related trademarks in connection with certain Notes, including the Notes. We are not affiliated with Russell; the only relationship between Russell and us is any licensing of the use of Russell’s indices and trademarks relating to them.

The license agreement between Russell and Barclays Bank PLC provides that the following language must be set forth in the pricing supplement:

“The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by Russell Investments (“Russell”). Russell makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in Notes generally or in the Notes particularly or the ability of the Russell 2000® Index (the “Russell 2000 Index”) to track general stock market performance or a segment of the same. Russell’s publication of the Russell 2000 Index in no way suggests or implies an opinion by Russell as to the advisability of investment in any or all of the Notes upon which the Russell 2000 Index is based. Russell’s only relationship to Barclays Bank PLC and its affiliates is the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names of Russell and of the Russell 2000 Index which is determined, composed and calculated by Russell without regard to Barclays Bank PLC and its affiliates or the Notes. Russell is not responsible for and has not reviewed the Notes nor any associated literature or publications and Russell makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to their accuracy or completeness, or otherwise. Russell reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to alter, amend, terminate or in any way change the Russell 2000 Index. Russell has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the Notes.

RUSSELL DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE RUSSELL 2000 INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN AND RUSSELL SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY OMISSIONS, OR INTERRUPTIONS THEREIN. RUSSELL MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE

 

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OBTAINED BY BARCLAYS BANK PLC AND/OR ITS AFFILIATES, INVESTORS, OWNERS OF THE NOTES, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE RUSSELL 2000 INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. RUSSELL MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE RUSSELL 2000 INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL RUSSELL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS), EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.”

“Russell 2000® Index” and “Russell 3000® Index” are trademarks of Russell Investments and have been licensed for use by Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by Russell Investments and Russell Investments makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes.

Historical Information Regarding the Russell 2000® Index

The following table sets forth the high and low closing levels of the Russell 2000® Index, as well as end-of-quarter closing levels, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
     Quarterly
Low
     Quarterly
Close
 

June 30, 2006

     781.83000         672.71997         724.67000   

September 29, 2006

     734.48000         671.94000         725.59000   

December 29, 2006

     797.73000         718.34998         787.66000   

March 30, 2007

     829.44000         760.06000         800.71000   

June 29, 2007

     855.09000         800.71002         833.70000   

September 28, 2007

     855.77000         751.53998         805.45000   

December 31, 2007

     845.72000         735.07001         766.03000   

March 31, 2008

     766.03000         643.96997         687.97000   

June 30, 2008

     763.27000         686.07001         689.66000   

September 30, 2008

     754.38000         657.71997         679.58000   

December 31, 2008

     679.58000         385.31000         499.45000   

March 31, 2009

     514.71000         343.26001         422.75000   

June 30, 2009

     531.68000         422.75000         508.28000   

September 30, 2009

     620.69000         479.26999         604.28000   

December 31, 2009

     634.07000         562.39996         625.39000   

March 31, 2010

     690.30000         586.48999         678.64000   

June 30, 2010

     741.92000         609.48999         609.49000   

September 30, 2010

     677.64000         590.02997         676.14000   

December 31, 2010

     792.35000         669.45001         783.65000   

March 31, 2011

     843.55000         773.17999         843.55000   

June 30, 2011

     865.29000         777.20001         827.43000   

September 30, 2011

     858.11000         643.41998         644.16000   

December 30, 2011

     765.43000         609.48999         740.92000   

March 30, 2012

     846.13000         740.91998         830.30000   

June 29, 2012

     840.63000         737.23999         798.49000   

September 28, 2012

     864.70000         767.75000         837.45000   

December 31, 2012

     852.49000         769.47998         849.35000   

February 13, 2013*

     920.57850         849.34998         920.58000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of Russell 2000® Index the based on daily closing levels from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing level of the Russell 2000® Index on February 13, 2013 was 920.58.

 

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We obtained the Russell 2000® Index closing levels above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical levels of the Russell 2000® Index should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the Russell 2000® Index on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the Russell 2000® Index will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

Basket Components that are ETFs

iSHARES® MSCI EAFE INDEX FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® MSCI EAFE Index Fund (the “MSCI EAFE ETF ”), including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the MSCI EAFE ETF’s prospectus dated December 1, 2011 and other publicly available information. We have not independently verified such information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, iShares® Trust, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). The MSCI EAFE ETF is an investment portfolio maintained and managed by iShares® Trust. BFA is currently the investment adviser to the MSCI EAFE ETF. The EFA Fund is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “EFA.”

iShares® Trust is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the MSCI EAFE ETF . Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares® Trust pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-92935 and 811-09729, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares® Trust, BFA and the MSCI EAFE ETF, please see the MSCI EAFE ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about iShares® and the MSCI EAFE ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the iShares® website at www.ishares.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings of the iShares® Trust, any information contained on the iShares® website or of any other publicly available information about the MSCI EAFE ETF. Information contained on the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The MSCI EAFE ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in developed European, Australasian and Far Eastern markets, as measured by the MSCI EAFE® Index. The MSCI EAFE® Index was developed by MSCI Inc. (“MSCI”) as an equity benchmark for international stock performance, and is designed to measure equity market performance in certain developed markets. For additional information about the MSCI EAFE® Index, see the information set forth under “Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—MSCI Indices” in the accompanying index supplement.

 

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As of June 30, 2012, the MSCI EAFE ETF holdings by country consisted of the following 29 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Luxembourg, Macau, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition, as of June 30, 2012, the EFA Fund’s three largest holdings by country were the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

The MSCI EAFE ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “Representative Sampling”) to try to track the MSCI EAFE® Index. The MSCI EAFE ETF generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the MSCI EAFE® Index and depository receipts representing securities of the MSCI EAFE® Index. In addition, the MSCI EAFE ETF may invest up to 10% of its assets in securities not included in the MSCI EAFE® Index but which BFA believes will help the MSCI EAFE ETF track the MSCI EAFE® Index and in futures contracts, options on futures contracts, options and swaps as well as cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA or its affiliates.

Representative Sampling

The MSCI EAFE ETF pursues a “representative sampling” indexing strategy in attempting to track the performance of the MSCI EAFE® Index, and generally does not hold all of the equity securities included in the MSCI EAFE® Index. The MSCI EAFE ETF invests in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the MSCI EAFE® Index. Securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the MSCI EAFE® Index.

Correlation

The MSCI EAFE® Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the EFA Fund is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the EFA Fund and the MSCI EAFE® Index will vary due to transaction costs, foreign currency valuation, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances, and differences between the MSCI EAFE ETF’s portfolio and the MSCI EAFE® Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the MSCI EAFE ETF but not to the MSCI EAFE® Index or the use of representative sampling. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of the EFA Fund’s portfolio and that of the MSCI EAFE® Index. The MSCI EAFE ETF, using a representative sampling indexing strategy, can be expected to have a greater tracking error than a fund using a replication indexing strategy. Replication is an indexing strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

Industry Concentration Policy

The MSCI EAFE ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the MSCI EAFE® Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the MSCI EAFE ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the MSCI EAFE ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     70.58000         59.60000         65.35000   

September 29, 2006

     68.46000         61.62000         67.78000   

December 29, 2006

     74.31000         67.78000         73.26000   

March 30, 2007

     76.94000         70.95000         76.27000   

June 29, 2007

     81.79000         76.27000         80.63000   

September 28, 2007

     83.77000         73.70000         82.56000   

December 31, 2007

     86.18000         78.24000         78.50000   

March 31, 2008

     78.50000         68.31000         71.90000   

June 30, 2008

     78.52000         68.10000         68.70000   

September 30, 2008

     68.70000         53.08000         56.30000   

December 31, 2008

     56.30000         35.71000         44.87000   

March 31, 2009

     45.44000         31.69000         37.59000   

June 30, 2009

     49.04000         37.59000         45.81000   

September 30, 2009

     55.81000         43.91000         54.70000   

December 31, 2009

     57.28000         52.66000         55.30000   

March 31, 2010

     57.96000         50.45000         56.00000   

June 30, 2010

     58.03000         46.29000         46.51000   

September 30, 2010

     55.42000         46.51000         54.92000   

December 31, 2010

     59.46000         54.25000         58.23000   

March 31, 2011

     61.91000         55.31000         60.09000   

June 30, 2011

     63.87000         57.10000         60.14000   

September 30, 2011

     60.80000         46.66000         47.75000   

December 30, 2011

     55.57000         46.45000         49.53000   

March 30, 2012

     55.80000         49.15000         54.90000   

June 29, 2012

     55.51000         46.55000         49.96000   

September 28, 2012

     55.15000         47.62000         53.00000   

December 31, 2012

     56.88000         51.96000         56.82000   

February 13, 2013*

     59.41000         56.82000         58.90000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the MSCI EAFE ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the MSCI EAFE ETF on February 13, 2013 was $58.90.

 

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We obtained the MSCI EAFE ETF closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the MSCI EAFE ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the MSCI EAFE ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the MSCI EAFE ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

THE POWERSHARES DB COMMODITY INDEX TRACKING FUND

We have derived all information contained in this product supplement regarding the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (the “DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF”), including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s prospectus dated April 23, 2012 and other publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, DB Commodity Services LLC (“DBCS” or the “Managing Owner”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, as commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF is a Delaware statutory trust that issues common units of beneficial interest, called “Shares,” representing fractional undivided beneficial interests in and ownership of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. The trustee of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, Wilmington Trust Company, has delegated to DBCS the exclusive management and control of all aspects of the business of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “DBC.”

The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF is a commodity pool as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”). DBCS is a commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor registered with the CFTC. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file number 001- 32726, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding DBCS and the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, please see the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF prospectus. In addition, information about DBCS and the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the DBCS website at www.dbfunds.db.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, any information contained on the DBCS website or of any other publicly available information about the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. Information contained in the DBCS website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Structure of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF

The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF was formed as a Delaware statutory trust on May 23, 2005. Each share represents a unit of fractional undivided beneficial interest in the net assets of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. Prior to the close of

 

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business on December 31, 2010, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF invested substantially all of its assets in the DB Commodity Index Tracking Master Fund (the “Master Fund”). After the determination of the net asset value of the Master Fund on December 31, 2010, the Master Fund transferred and distributed all of its assets and liabilities and terminated. Effective January 1, 2011, the reorganized DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF began performing all of the necessary functions in order to continue normal DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF operations.

Investment Objective and Strategy

Since October 19, 2009, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s investment objective has been to track changes, whether positive or negative, in the level of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ over time, plus the excess, if any, of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s interest income from its holdings of United States Treasury and other high credit quality short-term fixed income securities over the expenses of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF.

The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF pursues its investment objective by investing in a portfolio of exchange-traded futures on the commodities composing the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, or the Index Commodities. The Index Commodities are Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI), Heating Oil, RBOB Gasoline, Natural Gas, Brent Crude, Gold, Silver, Aluminium, Zinc, Copper Grade A, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, and Sugar. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is composed of notional amounts of each of the Index Commodities. The notional amounts of each Index Commodity included in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ are broadly in proportion to historical levels of the world’s production and supplies of the Index Commodities. The sponsor of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is Deutsche Bank AG London (“Deutsche Bank”). For additional information about the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, please see the section entitled “The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™” below.

During the period from January 31, 2006 (commencement of investment operations) to May 23, 2006, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF invested with a view to tracking changes, whether positive or negative, in the level of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index—Excess Return™ over time, plus the excess, if any, of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s interest income from its holdings of United States Treasury Obligations and other high credit quality short-term fixed income securities over the expenses of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. During the period from May 24, 2006 to October 16, 2009, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF invested with a view to tracking changes, whether positive or negative, in the level of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index—Optimum Yield Excess Return™ over time, plus the excess, if any, of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s income from its holdings of United States Treasury Obligations and other high credit quality short-term fixed income securities over the expenses of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF. The commodities composing the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index—Optimum Yield Excess Return™ are Light Sweet Crude Oil, Heating Oil, Aluminium, Gold, Corn and Wheat.

If the Managing Owner determines in its commercially reasonable judgment that it has become impracticable or inefficient for any reason for the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF to gain full or partial exposure to any Index Commodity by investing in a specific futures contract that is a part of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF may invest in a futures contract referencing the particular Index Commodity other than the specific contract that is a part of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ or, in the alternative, invest in other futures contracts not based on the particular Index Commodity if, in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Managing Owner, such futures contracts tend to exhibit trading prices that correlate with a futures contract that is a part of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF does not employ leverage.

Representative Sampling

As of June 30, 2012, the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF included 14 of the most heavily exchange-traded futures contracts on physical commodities. The DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s three largest holdings are: Light Sweet Crude Oil, Brent Crude Oil and Heating Oil. For a complete listing of the holdings of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF’s holdings in individual exchange-traded futures, please reference the DBCS website.

Disclaimer

The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by DBCS. DBCS makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the securities or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the securities. DBCS has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marketing, trading or sale of the securities.

 

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The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, including, without limitation, its makeup, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Deutsche Bank. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of such information. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ was developed by Deutsche Bank and is calculated, maintained and published by Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank has no obligation to continue to publish, and may discontinue the publication of, the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™.

The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is intended to reflect the changes in market value, positive or negative, of certain commodities. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is (i) calculated on an excess return, or unfunded basis and (ii) rolled in a manner which is aimed at potentially maximizing the roll benefits in backwardated markets and minimizing the losses from rolling in contangoed markets. Futures contracts on the following commodities are included in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™: Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI), Heating Oil, RBOB Gasoline, Natural Gas, Brent Crude, Gold, Silver, Aluminium, Zinc, Copper Grade A, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, and Sugar. We refer to each of these commodities as an Index Commodity.

Index Composition

The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is composed of notional amounts of each of the Index Commodity futures contracts. The notional amounts of each Index Commodity futures contract included in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ are broadly in proportion to historical levels of the world’s production and supplies of the Index Commodities. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is rebalanced annually in November to ensure that each of the Index Commodities is weighted in the same proportion that such Index Commodities were weighted on September 3, 1997, which was the base date. The following reflects the index base weights, or Index Base Weights, of each Index Commodity on the base date: Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI): 12.375%; Heating Oil: 12.375%; RBOB Gasoline: 12.375%; Natural Gas: 5.500%; Brent Crude: 12.375%; Gold: 8.000%; Silver: 2.000%; Aluminium: 4.167%; Zinc: 4.167%; Copper Grade A: 4.167%; Corn: 5.625%; Wheat: 5.625%; Soybeans: 5.625%; and Sugar: 5.625%.

Futures contracts on the Index Commodities are traded on the following futures exchanges: Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI), Heating Oil, RBOB Gasoline and Natural Gas: New York Mercantile Exchange; Brent Crude: ICE-Futures Europe; Gold and Silver: Commodity Exchange Inc., New York; Aluminium, Zinc and Copper Grade A: The London Metal Exchange Limited; Corn, Wheat and Soybeans: Board of Trade of the City of Chicago Inc.; and Sugar: ICE Futures U.S., Inc.

The composition of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ may be adjusted in the event that Deutsche Bank is not able to calculate the closing prices of the futures contracts on the Index Commodities.

The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ includes provisions for the replacement of futures contracts as they approach maturity. This replacement takes place over a period of time in order to lessen the impact on the market for the futures contracts being replaced. With respect to each Index Commodity, the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ employs a rule-based approach when it “rolls” from one futures contract to another. Rather than selecting a new futures contract based on a predetermined schedule (e.g., monthly), each Index Commodity rolls to the futures contract which generates the best possible “implied roll yield.” The futures contract with a delivery month within the next thirteen months which generates the best possible implied roll yield will be included in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™. As a result, the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is able to potentially maximize the roll benefits from an Index Commodity in backwardated markets and minimize the losses from rolling in contangoed markets.

In general, as a futures contract approaches its expiration date, its price will move towards the spot price in a contangoed market. Assuming the spot price does not change, this would result in the futures contract price decreasing and a negative implied roll yield. The opposite is true in a backwardated market. Rolling in a contangoed market will tend to cause a drag on an Index Commodity’s contribution to the index closing level while rolling in a backwardated market will tend to cause a push on an Index Commodity’s contribution to the index closing level.

On the first New York business day, or Verification Date, of each month, each Index Commodity futures contract will be tested in order to determine whether to continue including it in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™. If the Index Commodity futures contract requires delivery of the underlying commodity in the next month, known as the Delivery Month, a new Index Commodity futures contract will be selected for inclusion in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™. For example, if the first New York business day is May 1, 2012, and the Delivery Month of the Index Commodity futures contract currently in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is June 2012, a new Index Commodity futures contract with a later Delivery Month will be selected.

 

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For each underlying Index Commodity in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, the new Index Commodity futures contract selected will be the Index Commodity futures contract with the best possible “implied roll yield” based on the closing price for each eligible Index Commodity futures contract. Eligible Index Commodity futures contracts are any Index Commodity futures contracts having a Delivery Month (i) no sooner than the month after the Delivery Month of the Index Commodity futures contract currently in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™, and (ii) no later than the 13th month after the Verification Date. For example, if the first New York business day is May 1, 2012 and the Delivery Month of an Index Commodity futures contract currently in the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is June 2012, the Delivery Month of an eligible new Index Commodity futures contract must be between July 2012 and July 2013. The implied roll yield is then calculated and the futures contract on the Index Commodity with the best possible implied roll yield is then selected. If two futures contracts have the same implied roll yield, the futures contract with the minimum number of months prior to the Delivery Month is selected.

After the futures contract selection, the monthly roll for each Index Commodity subject to a roll in that particular month unwinds the old futures contract and enters a position in the new futures contract. This takes place between the 2nd and 6th index business day of the month.

On each day during the roll period, new notional holdings are calculated. The calculations for the old Index Commodity futures contracts that are leaving the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ and the new Index Commodity futures contracts are then calculated. On all days that are not monthly index roll days, the notional holding of each Index Commodity futures contract remains constant. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is reweighted on an annual basis on the 6th index business day of each November. The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ calculation is expressed as the weighted average return of the Index Commodity futures contracts.

Calculation of the Index Level

The closing level of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is calculated by Deutsche Bank based on the closing prices of the futures contracts for each of the Index Commodities and the notional amount of such Index Commodity futures contracts.

The futures contract price for each Index Commodity will be the exchange closing price for such Index Commodity on each weekday when banks in New York, New York are open. If a weekday is not an exchange business day but is an index business day, the exchange closing price from the previous index business day will be used for each Index Commodity.

The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ has been calculated back to

the base date. On the base date, the closing level was 100.

The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™ is calculated in USD.

An index business day is a day on which banks in New York, New York are open. An exchange business day is, with respect to an Index Commodity, a day that is a trading day for such Index Commodity on the relevant exchange (unless an index disruption event or force majeure event has occurred).

 

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Historical Information Regarding the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     26.98000         23.98000         25.35000   

September 29, 2006

     26.46000         23.00000         23.95000   

December 29, 2006

     25.84000         23.18000         24.55000   

March 30, 2007

     25.74000         22.43000         25.36000   

June 29, 2007

     26.64000         24.97000         25.78000   

September 28, 2007

     28.15000         25.09000         28.10000   

December 31, 2007

     31.95000         27.03000         31.55000   

March 31, 2008

     38.90000         30.73000         35.87000   

June 30, 2008

     45.56000         35.65000         44.90000   

September 30, 2008

     46.38000         32.39000         33.83000   

December 31, 2008

     33.83000         19.69000         21.19000   

March 31, 2009

     22.74000         18.15000         20.00000   

June 30, 2009

     24.19000         19.44000         22.62000   

September 30, 2009

     23.95000         20.74000         22.06000   

December 31, 2009

     24.84000         21.70000         24.62000   

March 31, 2010

     25.72000         22.38000         23.52000   

June 30, 2010

     24.70000         21.25000         21.57000   

September 30, 2010

     24.11000         21.20000         24.11000   

December 31, 2010

     27.58000         24.08000         27.58000   

March 31, 2011

     30.51000         27.13000         30.51000   

June 30, 2011

     31.92000         28.25000         28.96000   

September 30, 2011

     30.83000         25.73000         25.73000   

December 30, 2011

     28.54000         25.57000         26.84000   

March 30, 2012

     29.78000         26.84000         28.78000   

June 29, 2012

     29.17000         24.15000         25.75000   

September 28, 2012

     29.73000         25.70000         28.68000   

December 31, 2012

     28.95000         27.14000         27.78000   

February 13, 2013*

     28.59000         27.53000         28.51000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF on February 13, 2013 was $28.51.

 

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We obtained the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the DB Commodity Index Tracking ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

 

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CONSUMER STAPLES SELECT SECTOR SPDR® FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund’s prospectus dated January 31, 2012 and other publicly available information. We have not independently verified such information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by the Select Sector SPDR® Trust (the “Select Sector Trust”) and SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM”). The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an investment portfolio managed by SSgA FM, the investment adviser to the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund. The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol “XLP.”

The Select Sector Trust is a registered investment company that consists of nine separate investment portfolios (each, a “Select Sector SPDR® Fund”), including the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund. Each Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an index fund that invests in a particular sector or group of industries represented by a specified Select Sector Index. The companies included in each Select Sector Index are selected on the basis of general industry classifications from a universe of companies defined by the S&P 500® Index (please see above for a description of the S&P 500® Index). The Select Sector Indices (each, a “Select Sector Index”) upon which the Select Sector SPDR® Funds are based together comprise all of the companies in the S&P 500® Index. The investment objective of each Select Sector SPDR® Fund is to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in a particular sector or group of industries, as represented by a specified market sector index.

Information provided to or filed with the SEC by the Select Sector Trust pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-57791 and 811-08837, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding the Select Sector Trust or the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund, please see the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund’s prospectus. In addition, information about the Select Sector Trust, SSgA FM and the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the Select Sector Trust website at http://www.sectorspdrs.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the Consumer Staples Select SPDR Fund, specifically, or the Select Sector SPDR Funds, in general; any information contained on the Select Sector Trust website; or of any other publicly available information about the Consumer Staples Select SPDR Fund. Information contained on the Select Sector Trust website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective

The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the consumer staples sector, as represented by the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index. The Consumer Staples Select Sector Index includes companies in the following industries: food and staples retailing, household products, food products, beverages, tobacco, and personal products, the development or production of cyclical products or are in the transportation industry. For additional information about the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, see the section entitled “The Select Sector Indices” below.

Investment Strategy—Replication

The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund employs a replication strategy in attempting to approximate the performance of Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, which means that the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund typically invests in substantially all of the securities represented in the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index in approximately the same proportions as the Consumer Select Sector Index. There may, however, be instances where SSgA FM may choose to overweight another stock in the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, purchase securities not included in the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index that SSgA FM believes are appropriate to substitute for a security included in the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index or utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index. Under normal market conditions, the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities composing the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index. In addition, the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund may invest in cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by SSgA FM). Swaps, options and futures contracts, convertible securities and structured

 

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securities may be used by the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index and in managing cash flows. SSgA FM anticipates that, under normal circumstances, it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund. The Board of Trustees of the Select Sector Trust may change the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund’s investment strategy and certain other policies without shareholder approval.

There may, however, be instances where SSgA FM will utilize a sampling strategy. Sampling means that SSgA FM will use quantitative analysis to select securities, including securities in the relevant index, outside of the index and derivatives, which have a similar investment profile as the relevant index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include industry weightings, market capitalization, and other financial characteristics of securities.

Correlation

The Consumer Staples Select Sector Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund and the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index will vary somewhat due to operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows, regulatory requirements and operational inefficiencies. For example, it may take several business days for additions and deletions to the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. Any correlation of less than 100% is called “tracking error.”

Disclaimer

The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Select Sector Trust or SSgA FM. Neither the Select Sector Trust nor SSgA FM makes any representations or warranties to the owners of the securities or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the securities. Neither the Select Sector Trust nor SSgA FM has any obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marketing, trading or sale of the securities.

The Select Sector Indices

The Consumer Staples Select Sector Index is one of the Select Sector Indices. Specifically, the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index is a modified market capitalization-based index and is intended to track the movements of companies that are components of the S&P 500® Index which are involved in the following industries: food and staples retailing, household products, food products, beverages, tobacco, and personal products, the development or production of cyclical products or are in the transportation industry. The Consumer Staples Select Sector Index was established with a value of 250 on June 30, 1998.

The Select Sector Indices are sub-indices of the S&P 500® Index. Each stock in the S&P 500® Index is allocated to only one Select Sector Index, and the combined companies of the nine Select Sector Indices represent all of the companies in the S&P 500® Index. The industry indices are sub-categories within each Select Sector Index and represent a specific industry segment of the overall Select Sector Index. The nine Select Sector Indices seek to represent the ten S&P 500® Index sectors. The S&P 500® Index sectors, with the approximate percentage of the market capitalization of the S&P 500® Index included in each sector as of June 29, 2012 indicated in parentheses: Consumer Discretionary (10.90%); Consumer Staples (11.30%); Energy (10.08%); Financials (14.40%); Health Care (12.00%); Industrials (10.50%); Information Technology (19.90%); Materials (3.40%); Telecommunication Services (3.20%); and Utilities (3.70%). Merrill, Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc, acting as the Index Compilation Agent, determines the composition of the Select Sector Indices after consultation with Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”).

Each Select Sector Index was developed and is maintained in accordance with the following criteria:

 

   

Each of the component stocks in a Select Sector Index (the “Component Stocks”) is a constituent company of the S&P 500® Index.

 

   

The nine Select Sector Indices together will include all of the companies represented in the S&P 500® Index and each of the stocks in the S&P 500® Index will be allocated to one and only one of the Select Sector Indices.

 

   

The Index Compilation Agent assigns each constituent stock of the S&P 500® Index to a Select Sector Index. The Index Compilation Agent, after consultation with S&P, assigns a company’s stock to a particular Select Sector Index on the basis of that company’s sales and earnings composition and the sensitivity of the company’s stock price and business results to the common factors that affect other companies in each Select Sector Index.

 

   

Each Select Sector Index is calculated by S&P using a modified “market capitalization” methodology. This design ensures that each of the component stocks within a Select Sector Index is represented in a proportion consistent with its percentage with respect to the total market capitalization of that Select Sector Index. However, under certain conditions, the number of shares of a component stock within the Select Sector Index may be adjusted to conform to Internal Revenue Code requirements.

 

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Each Select Sector Index is calculated using the same methodology utilized by S&P in calculating the S&P 500® Index, using a base-weighted aggregate methodology. The daily calculation of each Select Sector Index is computed by dividing the total market value of the companies in the Select Sector Index by a number called the index divisor.

The Index Compilation Agent at any time may determine that a Component Stock which has been assigned to one Select Sector Index has undergone such a transformation in the composition of its business, and should be removed from that Select Sector Index and assigned to a different Select Sector Index. In the event that the Index Compilation Agent notifies S&P that a Component Stock’s Select Sector Index assignment should be changed, S&P will disseminate notice of the change following its standard procedure for announcing index changes and will implement the change in the affected Select Sector Indices on a date no less than one week after the initial dissemination of information on the sector change to the maximum extent practicable. It is not anticipated that Component Stocks will change sectors frequently.

Component Stocks removed from and added to the S&P 500® Index will be deleted from and added to the appropriate Select Sector Index on the same schedule used by S&P for additions and deletions from the S&P 500® Index insofar as practicable.

Historical Information Regarding the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     24.31000         23.13000         24.19000   

September 29, 2006

     25.70000         24.02000         25.36000   

December 29, 2006

     26.26000         25.20000         26.12000   

March 30, 2007

     27.04000         25.77000         26.57000   

June 29, 2007

     28.03000         26.57000         27.05000   

September 28, 2007

     27.94000         26.33000         27.94000   

December 31, 2007

     29.53000         27.73000         28.72000   

March 31, 2008

     28.82000         26.70000         27.91000   

June 30, 2008

     28.65000         26.57000         26.70000   

September 30, 2008

     29.15000         26.66000         27.46000   

December 31, 2008

     27.80000         21.94000         23.87000   

March 31, 2009

     24.31000         19.41000         21.10000   

June 30, 2009

     23.86000         21.10000         22.99000   

September 30, 2009

     25.46000         22.89000         25.46000   

December 31, 2009

     27.18000         25.28000         26.47000   

March 31, 2010

     28.13000         25.95000         27.91000   

June 30, 2010

     28.13000         25.50000         25.50000   

September 30, 2010

     28.09000         25.45000         27.87000   

December 31, 2010

     29.58000         27.82000         29.31000   

March 31, 2011

     29.98000         28.85000         29.94000   

June 30, 2011

     32.42000         29.94000         31.23000   

September 30, 2011

     31.84000         28.35000         29.70000   

December 30, 2011

     32.64000         29.23000         32.49000   

March 30, 2012

     34.08000         32.01000         34.08000   

June 29, 2012

     34.77000         33.16000         34.77000   

September 28, 2012

     36.38000         34.63000         35.83000   

December 31, 2012

     36.51000         34.18000         34.83000   

February 13, 2013*

     37.51000         34.83000         37.48000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund on February 13, 2013 was $37.48.

 

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We obtained the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

ISHARES® DOW JONES U.S. SELECT DIVIDEND INDEX FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® Dow Jones U.S. Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF (the “Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF”), including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF’s prospectus dated September 1, 2011 and other publicly available information. We have not independently verified such information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by iShares®, Inc. (“iShares®”), iShares® Trust, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). BFA is currently the investment adviser to the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BTC, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “DVY”.

iShares® Trust is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares® Trust pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-92935 and 811-09729, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares® Trust, BFA, and the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF, please see the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about iShares® and the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the iShares® website at www.ishares.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF, any information contained on the iShares® website, or of any other publicly available information about the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF. Information contained on the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

 

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Investment Objective and Strategy

The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. For additional information about the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index, please see the section entitled “Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index” below.

BFA uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the investment objective of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF. The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF does not try to “beat” the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “Representative Sampling”) to try to track the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index.

The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF may or may not hold all of the securities in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index and in depositary receipts representing securities of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF may invest the remainder of its assets in securities not included in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index, but which BFA believes will help the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF track the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index, and in futures contracts, options on futures contracts, options and swaps as well as cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA or its affiliates.

Representative Sampling

Representative sampling involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index.

Correlation

The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index may vary due to transaction costs, non-U.S. currency valuations, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances and differences between the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF’s portfolio and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF but not to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index or the use of representative sampling. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF’s portfolio and that of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. Because the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy, it can be expected to have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication indexing strategy. “Replication” is an indexing strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

Industry Concentration Policy

The Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities), repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities and securities of state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

 

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Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend IndexSM

The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend IndexSM (“Select Dividend Index”) measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time which are selected annually and subject to screening and buffering criteria. The Select Dividend Index is weighted by indicated annual dividend of its components and the weight of any individual company is restricted to 10%. The Select Dividend Index is a price return index (i.e., the reinvestment of dividends is not reflected in the Select Dividend Index). As of April 30, 2012, the Select Dividend Index was comprised of 100 Index Constituent Securities with the largest Index Constituent Security weighted at 3.94% and the smallest Index Constituent Security weighted at 0.20%. Updated weightings of the Index Constituent Securities in the Select Dividend Index are available at www.djindexes.com.

Constituent Selection

In order for a company to be eligible for selection in the Select Dividend Index, it must (i) be a dividend-paying company in the Dow Jones U.S. IndexSM (for additional information regarding the Dow Jones U.S. Index SM , please see Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—Dow Jones U.S. IndexSM” in the accompanying index supplement) that has a non-negative historical five-year dividend-per-share growth rate; (ii) have a five-year average dividend to earnings-per-share ratio of less than or equal to 60%; (iii) have paid dividends in each of the previous five years and (iv) have a three-month average trading volume of 200,000 shares. Current Select Dividend Index components are eligible for selection regardless of their payout ratio or trading volume.

In the annual December Index composition review, companies that are eligible for selection in the Select Dividend Index are ranked as follows:

 

   

Issues are ranked in descending order of indicated annual yield, defined as a stock’s indicated annual dividend (not including any special dividends) divided by its price.

 

   

Any current component stock with a three-month average daily trading volume of less than 100,000 shares is deemed ineligible for selection.

 

   

All remaining current component stocks ranked 200 and above on the December selection list are retained in the Index assuming they continue to meet all other eligibility requirements.

 

   

Stocks that are not current components are added to the Select Dividend Index until the component count reaches 100.

Base Value and Date

The base value of the Select Dividend Index is 100 as of December 31, 1991. The Select Dividend Index was first calculated on November 3, 2003 (the “Index Commencement Date”).

Calculation of the Select Dividend Index

The Select Dividend Index is disseminated on each trading day to market data vendors every 15 seconds, beginning at 9:30 a.m., New York City time, and ending at 5:15 p.m., New York City time.

Constituent Weighting

A company’s weighting in the Select Dividend Index is based on its indicated annual dividend. The weight of any individual company is restricted to 10%. Such restrictions, when required, are implemented on a quarterly basis. In the event of a stock split affecting a component company, weighting factors are adjusted immediately to keep the component weights constant.

Constituent Review

Components with significant negative dividend growth or negative earnings from continuing operations over the past twelve-month period are reviewed to determine if the affected company can sustain an appropriate dividend program to remain in the Select Dividend Index. If the Dow Jones Indexes Oversight Committee determines the company’s dividend program is at significant risk, the company will be removed from the Select Dividend Index after the close of trading on the third Friday of March, June, September or December. The component will be replaced by the highest-ranking non-component on the most recently published selection list. The companies under review for possible deletion are indicated on the selection lists posted to www.djindexes.com at the beginning of March, June, September and December. Component changes resulting from the quarterly review process are announced approximately two weeks prior to the implementation date. Share factor calculations for all Select Dividend Index components are conducted only at the annual review in December. A company added to the Select Dividend Index during the March, June, September or December review will be included in the Select Dividend Index at a weight commensurate with its own indicated annual dividend.

Extraordinary Constituent Deletions

Under the following circumstances, a component stock is immediately removed from the Select Dividend Index, independent of the annual review:

 

   

The component company is affected by a corporate action such as a delisting or bankruptcy;

 

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The component company eliminates its dividend; or

 

   

The component company lowers but does not eliminate its dividend, and its new yield is less than that of the lowest yielding non-component on the latest monthly selection list.

A component stock that is removed from the Select Dividend Index as the result of an extraordinary deletion is immediately replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list. The new stock is added to the Select Dividend Index at a weight commensurate with its own indicated annual dividend. A component company that is removed from the Dow Jones U.S. IndexSM during the course of the year because of a reduction in market capitalization will simultaneously be removed from the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend IndexSM.

Select Dividend Index Calculations

The Select Dividend Index is computed as follows:

 

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pi0 = the closing price of stock i at the base date

qi0 = the number of shares of company i at the base date

pit = the price of stock i at time (t)

qit = the number of shares of company i at time (t)

Ct = the adjustment factor for the base date market capitalization

Mt = market capitalization of the Select Dividend Index at time (t)

Bt = adjusted base date market capitalization of the Select Dividend Index at time (t)

The “Index Divisor” is used in the definition of “Reference Holder” in the accompanying product supplement.

Corporate Actions

In the event of a corporate action, the Select Dividend Index will be adjusted as follows:

 

   

Merger between two Select Dividend Index components (stock consideration): The target company is deleted from the Select Dividend Index and is replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list.

 

   

Merger between two Select Dividend Index components (cash and stock consideration): The target company is deleted from the Select Dividend Index and is replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list.

 

   

Merger between two Select Dividend Index components (cash consideration): The target company is deleted from the Select Dividend Index and is replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list.

 

   

Merger between non-component and Select Dividend Index component: The target company is deleted from the Select Dividend Index and is replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list.

 

   

Extraordinary deletion (bankruptcy, delisting): The target company is deleted from the Select Dividend Index and is replaced by the next-highest ranked stock by indicated annual yield as of the most recent monthly selection list.

 

   

Spin off: If an Index Constituent is restructured into two or more new companies, the new company is not added to the Select Dividend Index provided that the parent company maintains their dividends for the current-year.

If the dividend payment of the original company transfers from the parent to the child company, then the new company is added.

 

   

Stock Split/Stock Dividend/ Rights Offering: The weighting factor is adjusted based on ratio of the stock split/stock dividend to maintain the same weight for the company in the Select Dividend Index.

 

   

Special Cash Dividend: The price is adjusted by the amount of the special cash dividend on the ex-date. There will be no change to the weighting factor, resulting in a Divisor change.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     64.64000         61.65000         63.07000   

September 29, 2006

     66.95000         62.46000         66.39000   

December 29, 2006

     71.46000         66.39000         70.80000   

March 30, 2007

     73.17000         69.31000         71.31000   

June 29, 2007

     75.57000         71.31000         71.89000   

September 28, 2007

     73.36000         66.02000         69.01000   

December 31, 2007

     71.42000         63.44000         64.49000   

March 31, 2008

     65.79000         56.74000         57.87000   

June 30, 2008

     61.23000         49.23000         49.23000   

September 30, 2008

     61.00000         44.94000         52.98000   

December 31, 2008

     55.55000         35.88000         41.43000   

March 31, 2009

     42.03000         26.27000         31.40000   

June 30, 2009

     37.06000         31.40000         35.36000   

September 30, 2009

     42.24000         34.09000         41.30000   

December 31, 2009

     44.66000         40.12000         43.91000   

March 31, 2010

     46.81000         42.02000         46.02000   

June 30, 2010

     48.29000         42.41000         42.41000   

September 30, 2010

     47.02000         42.09000         46.84000   

December 31, 2010

     50.22000         46.78000         49.86000   

March 31, 2011

     52.17000         49.69000         52.12000   

June 30, 2011

     54.38000         51.29000         52.92000   

September 30, 2011

     54.01000         45.60000         48.24000   

December 30, 2011

     54.16000         47.03000         53.75000   

March 30, 2012

     56.58000         53.68000         55.96000   

June 29, 2012

     56.91000         53.73000         56.19000   

September 28, 2012

     58.69000         56.03000         57.68000   

December 31, 2012

     59.03000         54.92000         57.24000   

February 13, 2013*

     60.86000         57.24000         60.86000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF on September February 13, 2013 was $60.86.

 

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We obtained the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

iSHARES® IBOXX $ INVESTMENT GRADE CORPORATE BOND FUND

We have derived all information regarding the iShares® iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (the “iBoxx ETF”) contained in this preliminary supplement, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the IBoxx ETF’s prospectus dated July 1, 2012 and other publicly available information, without independent verification. This information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, iShares®, Inc. (“iShares®”), iShares® Trust, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). BFA is currently the investment adviser to the iBoxx ETF and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BTC, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. The iBoxx ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “LQD.”

iShares® Trust is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the iBoxx ETF. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares® pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-92935 and 811-09729, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares® Trust, BFA and the iBoxx ETF, please see the iBoxx ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about iShares® and the iBoxx ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and then iShares® website at www.ishares.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the Investment Grade Bond Fund, any information contained on the iShares® website, or of any other publicly available information about the Investment Grade Bond Fund. Information contained in the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The iBoxx ETF seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of a segment of the U.S. investment grade corporate bond market as defined by the iBoxx® $ Liquid Investment Grade Index (the “IG Index”). The IG Index is a rules-based index consisting of liquid, U.S. dollar-denominated, investment grade corporate bonds for sale in the U.S., as determined by the index provider, and is designed to provide a broad representation of the U.S. dollar-denominated liquid investment grade corporate bond market. For additional information regarding the IG Index, please see the section entitled “The iBoxx® $ Liquid Investment Grade Index” below.

 

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BFA uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the investment objective of the Investment Grade Bond Fund. The iBoxx ETF does not try to “beat” the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. The iBoxx ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “—Representative Sampling”) to try to track the Investment Grade Bond Index.

The iBoxx ETF may or may not hold all of the securities in the IG Index. The iBoxx ETF generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the IG Index and at least 95% of its assets in investment grade corporate bonds. The iBoxx ETF also may invest in bonds not included in the IG Index, but which BFA believes will help the iBoxx ETF track the IG Index. The iBoxx ETF may invest up to 5% of its assets in repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government obligations and in cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA.

Representative Sampling

Representative sampling involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the IG Index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability, duration, maturity or credit ratings and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the IG Index.

Correlation

The IG Index is a theoretical financial calculation while the iBoxx ETF is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the iBoxx ETF and the IG Index may vary due to transaction costs, non-U.S. currency valuation, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances and differences between the Investment Grade Bond Fund’s portfolio and the IG Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the iBoxx ETF but not to the IG Index or to the use of representative sampling. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of the Investment Grade Bond Fund’s portfolio and that of the IG Index. Because the Fund uses a representative sampling indexing strategy, it can be expected to have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication indexing strategy. “Replication” is an indexing strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

Industry Concentration Policy

The iBoxx ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the IG Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities), repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities and securities of state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Holdings Information

The holding information for the iBoxx ETF is updated on a daily basis. As of June 21, 2012, 98.43% of the Fund’s holdings consisted of bonds, 0.35% consisted of cash and 1.22% was in other assets, including dividends booked but not yet received. As of June 21, 2012, the following is a summary of the top 10 holdings of the iBoxx ETF as of such date, with the percentage of total holdings provided in parenthesis: AT&T Inc.—maturing 2018 (0.52%); AT&T Inc.—maturing 2018 (0.52%); Wells Fargo & Company (0.52%); Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (0.50%); General Electric Capital Corp.—maturing 2038 (0.48%); American International Group Inc. (0.47%); Credit Suisse New York, NY (0.46%); Citigroup Inc. (0.44%); JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.43%); and Verizon Communications Inc. (0.43%). For a complete listing of the holdings of the Investment Grade Bond Fund, please reference the Investment Grade Bond Fund’s prospectus.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

The iBoxx® $ Liquid Investment Grade Index

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the IG Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information, without independent verification. That information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Markit Group Limited (“Markit”). The IG Index is calculated, maintained and published by Markit. Markit has no obligation to continue to calculate and publish, and may discontinue calculation and publication of, the IG Index.

 

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The IG Index is reported by Bloomberg L.P. under the ticker symbol “IBOXIG.”

The IG Index is designed to reflect the performance of the U.S. dollar-denominated liquid investment-grade corporate bond market. The IG Index is a modified market-value weighted index with an issuer cap of 3%. There is no limit to the number of issues in the IG Index, but as of April 30, 2012 the IG Index included approximately 947 constituents. Components primarily include consumer services, financials, and oil and gas entities, and may change over time.

The IG Index consists of investment grade U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issued by corporate issuers from developed countries and rated by at least one of following three credit rating agencies: Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”), Moody’s Investor Service (“Moody’s”) and Standard & Poor’s Rating Services (“S&P”). The IG Index composition is rebalanced once a month, after the close of business on the last day of each month (the “rebalancing date”). The new IG Index composition becomes effective on the first business day of the next month (the “composition month”).

The bonds in the IG Index must meet all the criteria described below as of the close of business three business days prior to the rebalancing date, provided that the relevant bond data can be verified, at Markit’s sole discretion, as of such date (the “Bond Selection Cut-off Date”).

The IG Index is multi-contributor priced. Prices for the bonds in the IG Index are sourced from a number of leading market makers. The received quotes are subject to a quality control process which is intended to exclude stale or off-market prices, and the quotes that pass the quality control are consolidated to the IG Index price. Additionally, the IG Index rules and their application are governed by two committees:

 

   

Technical Committee: composed of representatives of the price contributing market makers and banks. The Technical Committee meets once a month in order to arbitrate monthly rebalancing, and to monitor market developments. It also provides assistance in the identification of eligible constituents, especially in the instance where the eligibility or the classification of a bond is unclear or contentious. Additionally, the Technical Committee discusses any market developments which may warrant index rule changes, provides recommendations on changes to the rules, and reviews whether a country should be deemed ineligible due to financial sanctions.

 

   

Oversight Committee: composed of representatives from a broad range of asset managers. The purpose of the Oversight Committee is to review the recommendations and decisions of the Technical Committee and also to provide consultation and approval on any market developments which may warrant rule changes.

Selection Criteria for the iBoxx® $ Liquid Investment Grade Index

The IG Index is comprised solely of bonds and is a subset of the iBoxx® USD Corporate Bond Index, an index of over 2,744 investment grade bonds. Bonds in the IG Index are selected from the universe of eligible bonds in the iBoxx® USD Corporate Bond Index which include only U.S. dollar –denominated corporate bonds that meet the following selection criteria related to: bond type, credit rating, time to maturity, amount outstanding, classification, lockout period and minimum run.

Bond Type. Only fixed-rate bonds whose cash flow can be determined in advance are eligible for the IG Index. Treasury Bills and other money market instruments are not eligible. The IG Index includes only U.S. dollar-denominated bonds .

In particular, bonds with the following characteristics are included: fixed coupon bonds, step-up bonds with coupon schedules known at issuance (or as functions of the issuer’s rating), sinking funds and amortizing bonds, medium-term notes, callable bonds and putable bonds.

The following instrument types are specifically excluded from the IG Index: preferred shares, optionally and mandatorily convertible bonds, subordinated bank debt or insurance debt with mandatory contingent conversion features or with any conversion options before the first call date, bonds with other equity features attached (e.g., options/warrants), private placements, perpetual bonds, floating rate notes, pay-in-kind bonds (during the pay-in-kind period), zero coupon bonds, zero step-ups (GAINS) and bonds with differences between accrual and coupon payment periods and monthly-paying bonds.

Any bond subject to a firm call or tender offer in the month immediately following the rebalancing date will be excluded from the IG Index, provided that Markit is aware of that tender offer or call as of the Bond Selection Cut-off Date.

 

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Credit Rating. All bonds in the IG Index must have a Markit iBoxx Rating of investment grade. Ratings from the following three credit rating agencies are considered for the calculation of the Markit iBoxx Rating: Fitch, Moody’s and S&P. Investment grade is defined to be BBB- or above from Fitch or S&P and Baa3 or above from Moody’s. If a bond is rated by more than one of the foregoing agencies, then the Markit iBoxx Rating is the average of the provided ratings. The rating is consolidated to the nearest rating grade. Rating notches are not used. In case of an ID change or exchange of a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering into a registered bond the ratings from the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering are also used for the registered bond.

Time to Maturity. Bonds in the IG Index must have maturities of at least three years at the rebalancing date.

Amount Outstanding. The outstanding face value of all bonds denominated in U.S. dollars from the issuer must be greater than or equal to $3 billion as of the Bond Selection Cut-off Date. The outstanding face value of a bond must be greater than or equal to $750 million as of the Bond Selection Cut-off Date. Partial buybacks or increases will affect the outstanding face value of a prospective bond. Markit considers changes to the outstanding face value of a candidate bond as a result of partial or full buybacks or increases, provided that Markit is aware of such changes as of the Bond Selection Cut-off Date.

Bond Classification. The bond must be corporate credit, i.e., debt instruments backed by corporate issuers that are not secured by specific assets. Debt issued by governments, sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns and government-backed or guaranteed entities is excluded.

Bonds must be denominated in U.S. dollars, publicly registered in the United States with the SEC and clear and settle through The Depository Trust Company. Eurobonds are excluded.

Bonds from countries classified as developed markets based on the “Markit Global Economic Development Classification” are eligible for the IG Index. As of June 2012, the issuer or, in the case of a finance subsidiary, the issuer’s guarantor, must be domiciled and the country of risk must be in Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States or the United Kingdom in order to be eligible for inclusion in the IG Index. A new country is added to the IG Index if it is classified as a developed market based on the “Markit Global Economic Development Classification”. A country is no longer eligible for the IG Index if it is classified as an emerging market based on the “Markit Global Economic Development Classification”. The “Markit Global Economic Development Classification” is updated once per year. The results are published at the end of July. The inclusion or exclusion of a country becomes effective at the end of the October following that publication.

Lockout Period. A bond that drops out of the IG Index at the rebalancing day is excluded from re-entering the IG Index for a three-month period. The rule for the lockout period takes precedence over the other rules for the IG Index selection. A locked out bond will not be selected, even if it qualifies for the IG Index.

Minimum Run. Any bond that enters the IG Index must remain in the IG Index for a minimum of six months, provided it is not downgraded to high yield, defaulted or fully redeemed in that period.

Annual Index Review.

The rules for the IG Index are reviewed once per year during the annual index review process to ensure that the IG Index provides a balanced representation of the U.S. dollar-denominated liquid investment grade corporate debt market. The results of the annual index review become available at the end of October.

Index Rebalancing

The IG Index is rebalanced every month, on the last business day of the month after the close of business, i.e., the rebalancing date. Changes to amounts outstanding are taken into account only if they are publicly known three business days before the end of the month. Changes in ratings are taken into account only if they are publicly known two business days before the end of the month. New bonds issued are taken into account if they are publicly known to settle until the last calendar day of the month, inclusive, and if their rating has become known at least three business days before the end of the month.

In a first step, the selection criteria set out above are applied to the universe of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds. Bond ratings and amount outstanding are used as of the Bond Selection Cut-off Date. Maturity dates remain fixed for the life of the bond. Only bonds with a first settlement date on or before the Bond Selection Cut-off Date are included in the selection process. Once the eligible bond universe has been defined, the weight for each bond is determined and if necessary capped, applying an issuer cap of 3%. The weights and capping factors are determined on the last business day of each month using the end-of-month market values.

 

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Consolidation of Contributed Quotes

Index calculation is based on bid and ask quotes provided by the contributing banks. As of June 2012, the following banks supply bond prices: Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.

The quotes pass through a two-step consolidation process. The first filter tests the technical validity of the quotes. The following parameters are tested: whether bid and ask quotes are non-negative, whether the bid quote is lower than the ask quote and whether the bid-ask spread is within 500 basis points.

In the second filter, the dispersion of the quotes that pass the technical validity is checked. A pre-defined margin will be set around a control quote to define an area within which a quote of a bond is expected to be. This margin is set per sector/rating combination and is reviewed monthly. All quotes that fall within this margin are eligible for consolidation. The control quote is determined by applying: (a) all observable quotes available to Markit, (b) the Markit iBoxx Forward Matrix or (c) manual quote verification, which includes verification with trading desks at contributing banks, market quotes available via commercial feeds, return consolidation and news feeds. This manual quote verification requires at least three independent price sources and must be full documented. The control quote is determined by applying these sequentially (i.e., only if one determinant fails will the next determinant be used).

The consolidated bid and ask prices are then calculated from the remaining quotes. If fewer than two quotes are valid, no consolidated price can be generated. If two or three quotes are received, the consolidated price is determined as the arithmetical mean of these quotes. If four or more quotes are received, the highest and lowest quotes are eliminated. Thereafter the arithmetic average of the remaining quotes is calculated to determine the consolidated price.

In case the consolidation fails due to missing contributions or because not enough eligible bonds passed the control quote margin test, the contributing banks will be informed immediately in order to revise their quotes for the relevant securities. Until the next successful consolidation, the price of the affected bond used to calculate the Index is determined by using the Markit iBoxx Forward Matrix. The Markit iBoxx Forward Matrix uses country, currency, rating, issuer, industry, coupon and maturity to identify for each bond a group of securities will similar characteristics. The pricing of this bond is then linked to the movement of the swap or zero curves. The bonds in the matrix cell are used to calculate the appropriate spreads of the unconsolidated bond. A matrix of a certain number of the top closest bonds is established and their most recent historical spreads over the treasury zero curve are weighted to calculate a spread distribution. The price of the bond with missing contributions is calculated using the result average spreads.

Calculation of the iBoxx® $ Liquid Investment Grade Index

Calculations are performed daily, using consolidated iBoxx bid prices at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern Time.

The total return of the IG Index is calculated using the price changes, accrued interest, interest payments and reinvestment income on cash flows received during the composition month.

Treatment of Special Intra-Month Events

If a bond is fully redeemed intra-month, the bond effectively ceases to exist. In all calculations, the redeemed bond is treated as cash based on the last consolidated price, the call price or the repurchase price, as applicable. A redemption factor and redemption price are used to treat these events in the IG Index and in calculations relating thereto. In addition, the clean price of the bond is set to the redemption price, and the interest accrued until the redemption date is treated as an irregular coupon payment.

If a bond is identified as trading flat of accrued, the accrued interest on the bond is set to zero in the total return index calculation and the bond is excluded from the calculation of all bond and index analytical values.

Some bonds have predefined coupon changes that lead to a change in the annual coupon over the life of the bond. In all instances, the coupon change must be a fixed amount on top of a fixed coupon, i.e. floating coupon bonds are not eligible for the IG Index. The two main categories of bonds with coupon changes of this nature are step-up bonds and event-driven bonds. Step-up bonds have a pre-defined coupon schedule that cannot change during the life of the bond. That coupon schedule is used in all bond calculations. Event-driven bonds’ coupons may change upon the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of specified events, such as ratings changes, failure to register a bond or failure to complete a merger. Any events occurring after the calculation date are ignored in the determination of the applicable coupon schedule.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the iBoxx ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the iBoxx ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     105.35000         102.40000         103.46000   

September 29, 2006

     107.10000         102.25000         106.83000   

December 29, 2006

     108.55000         105.45000         106.66000   

March 30, 2007

     108.68000         106.10000         107.29000   

June 29, 2007

     107.73000         103.03000         104.57000   

September 28, 2007

     105.56000         102.61000         105.49000   

December 31, 2007

     107.43000         103.14000         104.84000   

March 31, 2008

     107.57000         102.90000         105.20000   

June 30, 2008

     106.15000         101.00000         101.40000   

September 30, 2008

     101.77000         81.80000         89.79000   

December 31, 2008

     101.65000         83.80000         101.65000   

March 31, 2009

     102.60000         90.54000         94.12000   

June 30, 2009

     100.42000         92.86000         100.28000   

September 30, 2009

     107.19000         99.55000         106.68000   

December 31, 2009

     107.25000         103.94000         104.15000   

March 31, 2010

     106.79000         103.47000         105.73000   

June 30, 2010

     108.46000         104.56000         108.46000   

September 30, 2010

     113.09000         107.83000         113.09000   

December 31, 2010

     113.25000         106.77000         108.44000   

March 31, 2011

     109.45000         106.82000         108.20000   

June 30, 2011

     111.57000         108.02000         110.13000   

September 30, 2011

     114.00000         109.72000         112.34000   

December 30, 2011

     115.58000         110.19000         113.76000   

March 30, 2012

     117.70000         113.27000         115.70000   

June 29, 2012

     117.66000         114.43000         117.66000   

September 28, 2012

     121.77000         117.66000         121.77000   

December 31, 2012

     123.13000         120.44000         120.99000   

February 13, 2013*

     121.27000         118.74000         119.05000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the iBoxx ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the iBoxx ETF on February 13, 2013 was $119.05.

 

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We obtained the iBoxx ETF closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the iBoxx ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the iBoxx ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the iBoxx ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

ISHARES® MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® MSCI Japan Index Fund (the “MSCI Japan ETF”), including, without limitation, its make up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the MSCI Japan ETF’s prospectus dated January 1, 2012 and other publicly available information. We have not independently verified such information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, iShares®, Inc., BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). The MSCI Japan ETF is an investment portfolio maintained and managed by iShares®, Inc. BFA is currently the investment adviser to the MSCI Japan ETF. The MSCI Japan ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol “EWJ.”

iShares®, Inc. is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the MSCI Japan ETF. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares®, Inc. pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 033-97598 and 811-09102, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares®, Inc., BFA and the MSCI Japan ETF, please see the MSCI Japan ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about iShares® and the MSCI Japan ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the iShares® website at www.ishares.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the MSCI Japan ETF, any information contained on the iShares® website, or of any other publicly available information about the MSCI Japan ETF. Information contained on the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The MSCI Japan ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the Japanese market, as measured by the MSCI Japan Index. The MSCI Japan ETF holds equity securities traded primarily on the various Japanese exchanges. The MSCI Japan Index was developed by MSCI Inc. (“MSCI”), the index provider, as an equity benchmark for Japanese stock performance, and is designed to measure equity market performance in Japan. For additional information about the MSCI Indices, please see the information set forth under “Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—MSCI Indices” in the accompanying index supplement, as well as the section entitled “The MSCI Japan Index” below.

 

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The MSCI Japan ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “Representative Sampling”) to try to track the MSCI Japan Index. The MSCI Japan ETF will at all times invest at least 90% of its assets in the securities of the MSCI Japan Index or in depositary receipts representing securities included in the MSCI Japan Index. The MSCI Japan ETF may invest the remainder of its assets in other securities, including securities not in the MSCI Japan Index, but which BFA believes will help the MSCI Japan ETF track the MSCI Japan Index, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, other types of options and swaps related to the MSCI Japan Index, as well as cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds affiliated with BFA or its affiliates.

Representative Sampling

BFA uses a “representative sampling” indexing strategy to manage the MSCI Japan ETF. “Representative sampling” is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the MSCI Japan Index. Securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the MSCI Japan Index. The MSCI Japan ETF may or may not hold all of the securities in the MSCI Japan Index.

Correlation

The MSCI Japan Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the MSCI Japan ETF is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the MSCI Japan ETF and the MSCI Japan Index may vary due to transaction costs, non-U.S. currency valuation, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances and differences between the MSCI Japan ETF’s portfolio and the MSCI Japan Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the MSCI Japan ETF but not to the MSCI Japan Index or the use of representative sampling. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of a fund’s portfolio and that of its underlying index. The MSCI Japan ETF, using a representative sampling strategy, can be expected to have a greater tracking error than a fund using a replication strategy. Replication is a strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

Industry Concentration Policy

The MSCI Japan ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the MSCI Japan Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

The MSCI Japan Index

As stated above, general information regarding the composition, maintenance of, and changes to, the MSCI indices is set forth under “Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—MSCI Indices” in the accompanying index supplement. In addition to such information, please note that the performance of the MSCI Japan Index is a free float-adjusted average of the U.S. dollar values of the Japanese securities listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, JASDAQ and Nagoya Stock Exchange. The MSCI Japan Index has a base date of December 31, 1987.

Prices used to calculate the component securities are the official exchange closing prices or prices accepted as such in the relevant market. In general, all prices are taken from the main stock exchange in each market. The MSCI Japan Index is rebalanced quarterly, calculated in U.S. dollars on a real time basis, and disseminated every 60 seconds during market trading hours. It is also calculated on an end of day basis.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the MSCI Japan ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the MSCI Japan ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     15.52000         12.32000         13.67000   

September 29, 2006

     14.04000         12.57000         13.54000   

December 29, 2006

     14.23000         13.11000         14.22000   

March 30, 2007

     15.12000         13.89000         14.61000   

June 29, 2007

     14.73000         14.24000         14.55000   

September 28, 2007

     14.77000         13.46000         14.30000   

December 31, 2007

     14.65000         13.03000         13.29000   

March 31, 2008

     13.29000         11.53000         12.37000   

June 30, 2008

     13.82000         12.37000         12.48000   

September 30, 2008

     12.51000         10.23000         10.66000   

December 31, 2008

     10.66000         7.76000         9.60000   

March 31, 2009

     9.63000         6.84200         7.91000   

June 30, 2009

     9.58000         7.91000         9.43000   

September 30, 2009

     10.30000         9.19000         9.94000   

December 31, 2009

     10.03000         9.24000         9.74000   

March 31, 2010

     10.57000         9.74000         10.44000   

June 30, 2010

     10.70000         9.18000         9.20000   

September 30, 2010

     10.01000         9.20000         9.89000   

December 31, 2010

     10.96000         9.72000         10.91000   

March 31, 2011

     11.61000         9.65000         10.31000   

June 30, 2011

     10.61000         9.79000         10.43000   

September 30, 2011

     10.90000         9.23000         9.46000   

December 30, 2011

     9.98000         8.84000         9.11000   

March 30, 2012

     10.18000         9.06000         10.18000   

June 29, 2012

     10.20000         8.65000         9.41000   

September 28, 2012

     9.50000         8.75000         9.16000   

December 31, 2012

     9.80000         8.75000         9.75000   

February 13, 2013*

     10.15000         9.64000         10.04000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the MSCI Japan ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the MSCI Japan ETF on February 13, 2013 was $10.04.

 

LOGO

We obtained the MSCI Japan ETF closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the MSCI Japan ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the MSCI Japan ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the MSCI Japan ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

iSHARES® MSCI EMERGING MARKETS INDEX FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (the “MSCI Emerging Markets ETF”), including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s prospectus dated January 1, 2012 and other publicly available information. We have not independently verified such information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, iShares®, Inc., BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is an investment portfolio maintained and managed by iShares®, Inc. BFA is currently the investment adviser to the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF. The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “EEM.”

iShares®, Inc. is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares®, Inc. pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 033-97598 and 811-09102, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares®, Inc., BFA and the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, please see the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about iShares® and the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the iShares® website at www.ishares.com. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, any information contained on the iShares® website, or of any other publicly available information about the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF. Information contained on the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in emerging markets, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF holds equity securities traded primarily in the global emerging markets. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index was developed by MSCI Inc. (“MSCI”) as an equity benchmark for international stock performance,

 

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and is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets. For more information about the MSCI Indices, generally, and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, specifically, please see “Equity Index Descriptions—MSCI Indices” in the accompanying index supplement.

As of July 13, 2012, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF holdings by country consisted of the following 23 countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the United States. In addition, as of July 13, 2012, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s three largest holdings by country were China, South Korea and Brazil.

The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “Representative Sampling”) to try to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and depository receipts representing securities in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. In addition, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF may invest up to 10% of its assets in other securities, including securities not in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, but which BFA believes will help the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, other types of options and swaps related to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, as well as cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds affiliated with BFA or its affiliates.

Representative Sampling

The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF pursues a “representative sampling” indexing strategy in attempting to track the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, and generally does not hold all of the equity securities included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF invests in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Correlation

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index will vary due to transaction costs, foreign currency valuation, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances, and differences between the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s portfolio and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF but not to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or the use of representative sampling. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s portfolio and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. BFA expects that, over time, the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF’s tracking error will not exceed 5%. The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, using a representative sampling indexing strategy, can be expected to have a greater tracking error than a fund using a replication indexing strategy. Replication is an indexing strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

Industry Concentration Policy

The MSCI Emerging Markets ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     37.03330         27.33667         31.23000   

September 29, 2006

     33.13670         29.20000         32.28670   

December 29, 2006

     38.15000         31.80333         38.10330   

March 30, 2007

     39.52670         35.03333         38.75000   

June 29, 2007

     44.42000         38.75000         43.82000   

September 28, 2007

     50.11330         39.49667         49.78000   

December 31, 2007

     55.64330         47.27000         50.10000   

March 31, 2008

     50.36670         42.16667         44.79330   

June 30, 2008

     51.70000         44.43333         45.19330   

September 30, 2008

     45.19330         31.33000         34.53000   

December 31, 2008

     34.53000         18.22000         24.97000   

March 31, 2009

     27.09000         19.94000         24.81000   

June 30, 2009

     34.64000         24.81000         32.23000   

September 30, 2009

     39.29000         30.75000         38.91000   

December 31, 2009

     42.07000         37.56000         41.50000   

March 31, 2010

     43.22000         36.83000         42.12000   

June 30, 2010

     43.98000         36.16000         37.32000   

September 30, 2010

     44.77000         37.32000         44.77000   

December 31, 2010

     48.58000         44.77000         47.62000   

March 31, 2011

     48.69000         44.63000         48.69000   

June 30, 2011

     50.21000         45.50000         47.60000   

September 30, 2011

     48.46000         34.95000         35.07000   

December 30, 2011

     42.80000         34.36000         37.94000   

March 30, 2012

     44.76000         37.94000         42.94000   

June 29, 2012

     43.54000         36.68000         39.19000   

September 28, 2012

     42.37000         37.42000         41.32000   

December 31, 2012

     44.35000         40.14000         44.35000   

February 13, 2013*

     45.20000         43.53000         43.18000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF on February 13, 2013 was $43.18.

 

LOGO

We obtained the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF closing prices below from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

THE HEALTH CARE SELECT SECTOR SPDR® FUND

We have derived all information regarding the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund’s prospectus dated January 31, 2012 and other publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by the Select Sector SPDR® Trust and SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSFM”). We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an investment portfolio managed by SSFM, the investment adviser to the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. under the ticker symbol “XLV.”

The Select Sector SPDR® Trust is a registered investment company that consists of nine separate investment portfolios (each, a “Select Sector SPDR® Fund”), including the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund. Each Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an index fund that invests in a particular sector or group of industries represented by a specified Select Sector Index. The companies included in each Select Sector Index are selected on the basis of general industry classifications from a universe of companies defined by the S&P 500® Index (please see above for a description of the S&P 500® Index). The Select Sector Indices (each, a “Select Sector Index”) upon which the Select Sector SPDR® Funds are based together comprise all of the companies in the S&P 500® Index. The investment objective of each Select Sector SPDR® Fund is to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in a particular sector or group of industries, as represented by a specified market sector index.

Information provided to or filed with the SEC by the Select Sector SPDR® Trust pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-57791 and 811-08837, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, information may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the Health Care Select SPDR Fund, specifically, or the Select Sector SPDR Funds, in general; any information contained on the Select Sector Trust website; or of any other publicly available information about the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund. Information from outside sources is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this document.

 

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Investment Objective

The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the health care services sector, as represented by the Health Care Select Sector Index. The Health Care Select Sector Index measures the performance of the health care sector of the U.S. equity market and includes companies in the following sub-sectors: pharmaceuticals; health care equipment and supplies; health care providers and services; biotechnology; life sciences tools and services and health care technology. For additional information regarding the Health Care Select Sector Index, please see section entitled, “The Health Care Select Sector Index”, below.

Investment Strategy—Replication

The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund pursues the indexing strategy of “replication” in attempting to approximate the performance of Health Care Select Sector Index. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund will generally invest in substantially all of the equity securities included in the Health Care Select Sector Index in approximately the same proportions as the Health Care Select Sector Index. There may, however, be instances where SSFM may choose to overweight another stock in the Health Care Select Sector Index, purchase securities not included in the Health Care Select Sector Index that SSFM believes are appropriate to substitute for a security included in the Health Care Select Sector Index or utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track accurately the Health Care Select Sector Index. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund will normally invest at least 95% of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the Health Care Select Sector Index. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund may invest its remaining assets in money market instruments (including repurchase contracts). Options and futures contracts (and convertible securities and structured notes) may be used by the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to the Health Care Select Sector Index and managing cash flows. SSFM anticipates that, under normal circumstances, it may take approximately five business days for additions and deletions to the S&P 500® Index to be reflected in the portfolio composition of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund. The Board of Trustees of the Select Sector SPDR® Trust may change the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval.

Correlation

The Health Care Select Sector Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund and the Health Care Select Sector Index will vary somewhat due to transaction costs, asset valuations, market impact, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs) and timing variances. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. Any correlation of less than 100% is called “tracking error.” The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund, using a replication strategy, can be expected to have a lesser tracking error than a fund using representative sampling strategy. Representative sampling is a strategy in which a fund invests in a representative sample of securities in a tracking index.

The Health Care Select Sector Index

We have derived all information regarding the Health Care Select Sector Index and the index from which it is derived, the S&P 500® Index, including, without limitation, the make-up, method of calculation and changes in components for each index, from publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“S&P”) or BofA Merrill Lynch Research, as index compilation agent, (“BofA Merrill Lynch” or the “Index Compilation Agent”). We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.

The Health Care Select Sector Index is a modified market capitalization-based index, intended to provide an indication of the pattern of common stock price movements of companies that are components of the S&P 500® Index and are involved in the health care sector such as: pharmaceuticals; health care equipment & supplies; health care providers & services; biotechnology; life science tools & services; and health care technology. The Health Care Select Sector Index is one of the nine Select Sector sub-indices of the S&P 500® Index, each of which we refer to as a “Select Sector Index”. For additional information regarding the “Select Sector Indices”, including the construction and maintenance of such indices, please refer to the section above entitled, “Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund—Select Sector Indices”.

The stocks included in the Health Care Select Sector Index are selected by the Index Compilation Agent in consultation with S&P from the universe of companies represented by the S&P 500® Index. The composition and weighting of the stocks included in the Health Care Select Sector Index will likely differ from the composition and weighting of stocks included in any similar S&P 500® sector index that is published and disseminated by S&P. S&P’s only relationship to the Index Compilation Agent is the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names of S&P and of the S&P 500® Index which is determined, composed and calculated by S&P without regard to the Index Compilation Agent.

 

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Historical Information Regarding the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     32.03000         29.51000         30.26000   

September 29, 2006

     33.37000         29.98000         33.18000   

December 29, 2006

     33.90000         32.42000         33.49000   

March 30, 2007

     34.85000         33.09000         33.67000   

June 29, 2007

     36.78000         33.67000         35.23000   

September 28, 2007

     35.98000         33.60000         35.39000   

December 31, 2007

     36.74000         34.79000         35.21000   

March 31, 2008

     36.44000         30.64000         30.93000   

June 30, 2008

     32.25000         29.92000         30.56000   

September 30, 2008

     33.61000         29.93000         30.45000   

December 31, 2008

     30.45000         23.56000         26.55000   

March 31, 2009

     27.46000         21.88000         24.21000   

June 30, 2009

     26.53000         23.77000         26.31000   

September 30, 2009

     29.04000         25.64000         28.67000   

December 31, 2009

     31.64000         28.05000         31.08000   

March 31, 2010

     33.00000         30.68000         32.08000   

June 30, 2010

     32.31000         28.17000         28.17000   

September 30, 2010

     30.70000         27.96000         30.48000   

December 31, 2010

     31.77000         30.19000         31.50000   

March 31, 2011

     33.18000         31.50000         33.13000   

June 30, 2011

     36.42000         33.13000         35.52000   

September 30, 2011

     35.95000         29.99000         31.72000   

December 30, 2011

     34.88000         30.70000         34.69000   

March 30, 2012

     37.59000         34.69000         37.59000   

June 29, 2012

     38.00000         35.53000         38.00000   

September 28, 2012

     40.31000         37.40000         40.11000   

December 31, 2012

     41.35000         38.64000         39.95000   

February 13, 2013*

     43.39000         39.95000         43.22000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund on February 13, 2013 was $43.22.

 

LOGO

We obtained the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

THE POWERSHARES QQQ TRUSTSM, SERIES 1

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1’s prospectus dated January 30, 2012 and other publicly available information. The PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 is an unit investment trust created pursuant to a trust indenture and agreement (the “Trust Agreement”) dated as of March 4, 1999, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Trust Agreement dated as of March 21, 2007, and is governed by a standard terms and conditions of trust between The Bank of New York Mellon, (the “Trustee”), and Nasdaq Global Funds, the predecessor sponsor to Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (the “Sponsor”), dated and executed as of March 1, 1999, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Terms and Conditions dated as of April 17, 2001, by Amendment No. 2 to the Terms of Conditions, dated as of February 4, 2004 and Amendment No. 3 to the Terms and Conditions, dated as of January 24, 2006. The PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 was created to provide investors with the opportunity to purchase units of beneficial interest in the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 representing proportionate undivided interests in the portfolio of securities held by the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1, which consists of substantially all of the securities, in substantially the same weighting, as the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index®.

Information filed by the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, can be located by reference to the SEC file numbers 333-61001 and 811-08947, respectively on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, information may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the, PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 or of any other publicly available information about the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1Information from outside sources is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1, an exchange traded fund, is a registered investment company which both (a) continuously issues and redeems “in kind” its shares, known as PowerShares QQQ Shares only in large lot sizes called Creation Units at their once daily net asset value (“NAV”) and (b) lists the shares individually for trading on Nasdaq Global Market tier of the

 

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NASDAQ Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “QQQQ” at prices established throughout the trading day, like any other listed equity security trading in the secondary market on Nasdaq. The PowerShares QQQ Shares held by the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 consist of a portfolio of equity securities or, in the case of securities not yet delivered in connection with purchases made by the trust or portfolio deposits, confirmations of contracts to purchase such securities (collectively, the “Portfolio”). The investment objective of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 is to provide investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index® by holding all the stocks comprising the Nasdaq-100 Index®. First published in January 1985, the Nasdaq-100 Index® is a modified capitalization-weighted index of 100 of the largest and most actively traded equity securities of non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. The Nasdaq-100 Index® includes companies across a variety of major industry groups. For additional information about the Nasdaq-100 Index®, see the information set forth under “Non-Proprietary Indices—Equity Indices—Nasdaq-100 Index®” in the accompanying index supplement.

The PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1, which holds the Portfolio and cash, is not actively managed by traditional methods, which typically involve effecting changes in the Portfolio on the basis of judgments made relating to economic, financial and market considerations. To maintain the correspondence between the composition and weights of the securities in the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 (the “Securities”) and the stocks in the Nasdaq-100 Index®, the Trustee adjusts the Securities from time to time to conform to periodic changes in the identity and/or relative weights of the Securities. The composition and weighting of the securities portion of a portfolio deposit are also adjusted to conform to changes in the Nasdaq-100 Index®.

Representative Sampling

The sponsor of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 makes available on each business day a list of the names and the required number of shares for each of the securities in the current portfolio deposit as well as the income net of expense amount effective through and including the previous business day per outstanding PowerShares QQQ Share. The sponsor may choose within its discretion to make available, frequently throughout each business day, a number representing, on a per PowerShares QQQ Share basis, the sum of the income net of expense amount effective through and including the previous business day plus the current value of the securities portion of a portfolio deposit as in effect on such day (which value will occasionally include a cash-in-lieu amount to compensate for the omission of a particular index security from such portfolio deposit). The Nasdaq Stock Market calculates the Nasdaq-100 Index® intra-day every 15 seconds on every business day in which the Nasdaq Stock Market is open for trading. If the sponsor elects to make such information available, it would be calculated based upon the best information available to the sponsor and may be calculated by other persons designated to do so by the sponsor. If the sponsor elects to make such information available, the inability of the sponsor or its designee to provide such information for any period of time will not in itself result in a halt in the trading of PowerShares QQQ Shares on Nasdaq.

Historical Information Regarding the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1, as well as end-of-quarter closing prices, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     42.74000         37.27000         38.77000   

September 29, 2006

     40.83000         35.70000         40.64000   

December 29, 2006

     44.74000         40.14000         43.15000   

March 30, 2007

     45.42000         42.16000         43.54000   

June 29, 2007

     47.80000         43.54000         47.57000   

September 28, 2007

     51.52000         45.53000         51.42000   

December 31, 2007

     55.01000         48.75000         51.23000   

March 31, 2008

     51.23000         41.22000         43.77000   

June 30, 2008

     50.54000         43.77000         45.16000   

September 30, 2008

     48.28000         37.45000         39.16000   

December 31, 2008

     39.16000         25.56000         29.74000   

March 31, 2009

     31.51000         25.72000         30.32000   

June 30, 2009

     36.94000         30.32000         36.38000   

September 30, 2009

     42.65000         34.54000         42.24000   

December 31, 2009

     46.20000         40.89000         45.75000   

March 31, 2010

     48.39000         42.64000         48.17000   

June 30, 2010

     50.52000         42.74000         42.74000   

September 30, 2010

     49.66000         42.47000         49.06000   

December 31, 2010

     54.89000         48.48000         54.46000   

March 31, 2011

     58.89000         54.17000         57.43000   

June 30, 2011

     59.24000         53.79000         57.04000   

September 30, 2011

     59.61000         50.06000         52.50000   

December 30, 2011

     58.92000         51.13000         55.83000   

March 30, 2012

     68.21000         55.83000         67.53000   

June 29, 2012

     68.25000         60.41000         64.16000   

September 28, 2012

     70.40000         62.42000         68.58000   

December 31, 2012

     69.35000         62.03000         65.11000   

February 13, 2013*

     68.01000         65.11000         67.97000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 on February 13, 2013 was $67.97.

 

LOGO

We obtained the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 closing prices above from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the PowerShares QQQ TrustSM, Series 1 will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

THE iSHARES® BARCLAYS TIPS BOND FUND

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (the “iShares TIPS ETF”), including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from the iShares TIPS ETF’s prospectus dated March 1, 2012 and other publicly available information, without independent verification. This information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, iShares®, Inc. (“iShares®”), iShares® Trust, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA”). BFA is currently the investment adviser to the iShares TIPS ETF and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BTC, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. The iShares TIPS ETF is an exchange-traded fund that trades on the NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) under the ticker symbol “TIP.”

 

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iShares® Trust is a registered investment company that consists of numerous separate investment portfolios, including the iShares TIPS ETF. Information provided to or filed with the SEC by iShares® Trust pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-92935 and 811-09729, respectively, through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. For additional information regarding iShares® Trust, BFA and the iShares TIPS ETF, please see the iShares TIPS ETF’s prospectus. In addition, information about the iShares TIPS ETF may be obtained from other sources including, but not limited to, press releases, newspaper articles and other publicly disseminated documents and the iShares® website. We have not undertaken any independent review or due diligence of the SEC filings related to the iShares TIPS ETF, any information contained on the iShares® website, or of any other publicly available information about the iShares TIPS ETF. Information contained in the iShares® website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this pricing supplement.

Investment Objective and Strategy

The iShares TIPS ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index (Series-L) (the “Barclays TIPS Index”). Inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. Treasury, commonly known as “TIPS,” are securities issued by the U.S. Treasury that are designed to provide inflation protection to investors. TIPS are income-generating instruments the interest and principal payments of which are adjusted for inflation—a sustained increase in prices that erodes the purchasing power of money. The inflation adjustment, which is typically applied monthly to the principal of the bond, follows a designated inflation index, such as the consumer price index. A fixed coupon rate is applied to the inflation-adjusted principal so that as inflation rises, both the principal value and the interest payments increase. This can provide investors with a hedge against inflation, as it helps preserve the purchasing power of an investment. Because of this inflation adjustment feature, inflation-protected bonds typically have lower yields than conventional fixed-rate bonds. For additional information regarding the Barclays TIPS Index, please see section entitled, “The Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index (Series-L)”, below.

BFA uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the investment objective of the iShares TIPS ETF. The iShares TIPS ETF does not try to “beat” the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. The iShares TIPS ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy (as described below under “—“Representative Sampling”) to try to track the Barclays TIPS Index.

The iShares TIPS ETF may or may not hold all of the securities in the Barclays TIPS Index. The iShares TIPS ETF generally invests at least 90% of its assets in the bonds included in the Barclays TIPS Index and at least 95% of its assets in U.S. government bonds. The iShares TIPS ETF may invest up to 10% of its assets in U.S. government bonds not included in the Barclays TIPS Index, but which BFA believes will help the iShares TIPS ETF track the Barclays TIPS Index. The iShares TIPS ETF also may invest up to 5% of its assets in repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government obligations and in cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA.

Representative Sampling

Representative sampling involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Barclays TIPS Index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability, duration, maturity or credit ratings and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Barclays TIPS Index.

Correlation

The Barclays TIPS Index is a theoretical financial calculation, while the iShares TIPS ETF is an actual investment portfolio. The performance of the iShares TIPS ETF and the Barclays TIPS Index may vary due to transaction costs, non-U.S. currency valuation, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances and differences between the iShares TIPS ETF’s portfolio and the Barclays TIPS Index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the iShares TIPS ETF but not to the Barclays TIPS Index or to the use of representative sampling. “Tracking error” is the difference between the performance (return) of the iShares TIPS ETF’s portfolio and that of the Barclays TIPS Index. Because the iShares TIPS ETF uses a representative sampling indexing strategy, it can be expected to have a larger tracking error than if it used a replication indexing strategy. “Replication” is an indexing strategy in which a fund invests in substantially all of the securities in its underlying index in approximately the same proportions as in the underlying index.

 

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Concentration Policy

The iShares TIPS ETF will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Barclays TIPS Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities), repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities and securities of state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.

Holdings Information

The holding information for the iShares TIPS ETF is updated on a daily basis. As of June 21, 2012, 99.01% of the iShares TIPS ETF’s holdings consisted of bonds, 0.44% consisted of cash and 0.52% was in other assets, including dividends booked but not yet received. As of June 21, 2012, the following is the top 10 holdings of the iShares TIPS ETF, with percentage of total holdings provided in parenthesis: U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 01/15/2021, 1.12% (6.98%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 01/15/2016, 2.00% (4.98%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 07/15/2021, 0.62% (4.94%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 01/15/2025, 2.38% (4.50%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 07/15/2020, 1.25% (4.44%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 02/15/2041, 2.12% (4.43%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 04/15/2029, 3.88% (4.38%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 04/15/2028, 3.62% (3.94%); U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 01/15/2021, 1.12% (6.98%); and U.S. Treasury (CPI) Note, 01/15/2016, 2.00% (4.98%). For a complete listing of the holdings of the iShares TIPS ETF’s, please reference the iShares TIPS ETF’s prospectus.

Disclaimer

iShares® is a registered mark of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BITCNA”). BITCNA has licensed certain trademarks and trade names of BITCNA to Barclays Bank PLC. The Notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by BITCNA. BITCNA makes no representations or warranties to the owners of the Notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in the Notes. BITCNA has no obligation or liability in connection with the operation, marking, trading or sale of the Notes.

The Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index (Series-L)

We have derived all information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the Barclays TIPS Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information, without independent verification. This information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Barclays Capital Inc. (“BCI”). The Barclays TIPS Index is a bond index calculated, published and disseminated by BCI. BCI is under no obligation to continue to publish, and may discontinue publication of, the Barclays TIPS Index.

As described above, the Barclays TIPS Index measures the performance of inflation-protected securities issued by the U.S. Treasury known as “TIPS.” The Barclays TIPS Index is market capitalization-weighted, includes all publicly issued U.S. inflation-protected securities that meet the eligibility criteria for inclusion described below and is rebalanced once a month on the last calendar day of the month. TIPS are indexed to the non-seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or the CPI-U.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible for inclusion in the Barclays TIPS Index, securities must have $250 million or more of outstanding face value. U.S. Treasuries held in the Federal Reserve SOMA account (both purchases at issuance and net secondary market transactions) are deducted from the total amount outstanding. Any issuance bought at auction by the Federal Reserve does not enter the Barclays TIPS Index. Net secondary market purchases and sales are adjusted at each month-end with a one-month lag.

The U.S. inflation-protected securities included in the Barclays TIPS Index must be rated investment grade (Baa3/BBB-/BBB-) or higher using the middle rating (e.g. dropping the highest and lowest available ratings) provided by the following rating agencies: Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”), Moody’s Investor Service (“Moody’s”). When a rating from only two agencies is available, the lower is used. When a rating from only one agency is available, that is used to determine index eligibility.

Securities must have a remaining maturity of at least one year, regardless of optionality, and non-convertible.

Principal and coupons must be denominated in U.S. dollars. Coupons must be fixed rate, step-up coupons or coupons that change according to a predetermined schedule. Securities with a coupon that converts from fixed to floating rate must have at least one year until the conversion date.

 

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The securities must be SEC-registered securities, bonds exempt from registration at the time of issuance or Rule 144A securities with registration rights. Public obligations of the U.S. Treasury and inflation-protected securities are eligible for inclusion in the Barclays TIPS Index. State and local government series bonds, STRIPS, T-bills and bellwethers are excluded from the Barclays TIPS Index.

Rebalancing

The compositions of the “returns universe” is rebalanced at each month-end and represents the fixed set of bonds on which index returns are calculated for the ensuing month. The “statistics universe” is a forward-looking version that changes daily to reflect issues dropping out and entering the index, but is not used for return calculation. On the last business day of the month (the “rebalancing date”), the composition of the latest statistics universe becomes the returns universe for the following month.

During the month, indicative changes to securities (e.g., credit rating changes, sector reclassification, amount outstanding changes, corporate actions, ticker changes) are reflected in both the statistic universe and returns universe of the index on a daily basis. These changes may cause bonds to enter or fall out of the statistics universe of the index on a daily basis, but will affect the composition of the returns universe only at month-end, when the index is rebalanced.

Intra-month cash flows from interest and principal payments contribute to monthly index returns, but are not reinvested at any short-term reinvestment rate in between rebalance dates to earn an incremental return. However, after the rebalancing, cash is effectively reinvested into the returns universe for the following month, so that index results over two or more months reflect monthly compounding.

Qualifying securities issued but not necessarily settled on or before the month-end rebalancing date qualify for inclusion in the following month’s index if required security reference information and pricing are readily available.

Index Calculation

The Barclays TIPS Index is priced by BCI market makers on a daily basis on 3 p.m. New York time. Bonds in the index are priced on the mid side. The primary price for each security is analyzed and compared with other third-party pricing sources through statistical routines and scrutiny by the research staff. Significant discrepancies are researched and corrected, as necessary.

The amount outstanding reported for TIPS is equal to the notional par value of each TIP security available for purchase by the public as reported by the U.S. Treasury in the Quarterly Treasury Bulletin. This number is then adjusted (divided) by the compounded rate of inflation since the date of issue. The number is updated quarterly, at the end of a month that the Quarterly Treasury Bulletin is released.

When a new TIPS is issued or an existing issue is reopened, the full uninflated par amount outstanding enters the index for returns purposes on the first day of the following month. Only when the next published Quarterly Treasury Bulletin includes the new issuance or reopening will this amount be adjusted to reflect the amount outstanding net of holds by the U.S. Treasury.

Historical Information Regarding the iShares TIPS ETF

The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices of the iShares TIPS ETF, as well as end-of-quarter closing levels, during the periods indicated below.

 

Quarter/Period Ending

   Quarterly
High
(USD)
     Quarterly
Low
(USD)
     Quarterly
Close
(USD)
 

June 30, 2006

     100.30000         98.32000         99.56000   

September 29, 2006

     101.69000         98.43000         101.21000   

December 29, 2006

     101.49000         98.75000         98.78000   

March 30, 2007

     101.50000         98.01000         101.06000   

June 29, 2007

     101.33000         97.30000         99.00000   

September 28, 2007

     102.60000         97.84000         102.12000   

December 31, 2007

     107.97000         100.90000         105.80000   

March 31, 2008

     111.52000         105.80000         109.90000   

June 30, 2008

     109.90000         104.74000         107.85000   

September 30, 2008

     108.60000         101.30000         101.30000   

December 31, 2008

     101.86000         90.73000         99.24000   

March 31, 2009

     103.34000         96.48000         102.75000   

June 30, 2009

     102.75000         98.90000         101.63000   

September 30, 2009

     102.88000         99.88000         102.88000   

December 31, 2009

     106.57000         102.72000         103.90000   

March 31, 2010

     105.49000         103.36000         103.91000   

June 30, 2010

     106.99000         102.74000         106.91000   

September 30, 2010

     109.79000         105.35000         109.03000   

December 31, 2010

     112.22000         105.81000         107.52000   

March 31, 2011

     110.31000         104.91000         109.16000   

June 30, 2011

     111.47000         108.56000         110.64000   

September 30, 2011

     118.10000         109.98000         114.30000   

December 30, 2011

     117.99000         113.75000         116.69000   

March 30, 2012

     119.36000         116.65000         117.65000   

June 29, 2012

     121.31000         117.05000         119.70000   

September 28, 2012

     121.93000         118.69000         121.76000   

December 31, 2012

     123.30000         121.22000         121.41000   

February 13, 2013*

     121.41000         120.17000         120.17000   

 

* High, low and closing prices are for the period starting January 1, 2013 and ending February 13, 2013.

 

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The following graph sets forth the historical performance of the iShares TIPS ETF based on daily closing prices from May 3, 2006 through February 13, 2013. The closing price per share of the iShares TIPS ETF on February 13, 2013 was $120.17.

 

LOGO

We obtained the iShares TIPS ETF closing prices below from Bloomberg, L.P, without independent verification. The historical prices of the iShares TIPS ETF should not be taken as an indication of future performance, and no assurance can be given as to the Closing Value of the iShares TIPS ETF 1 on the Basket Final Valuation Date. We cannot give you assurance that the performance of the iShares TIPS ETF will result in the return of any of your principal.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS

 

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INSTITUTE FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Institute for Wealth Management

The Institute for Wealth Management LLC (“IWM”), a Delaware-incorporated limited liability company, is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (SEC File No. 801-67624). IWM’s corporate address is 1775 Sherman St., Suite 2750, Denver, Colorado, 80203. For more information on IWM, please refer to IWM’s Form ADV filed with the SEC.

Basket Composition Agreement

On July 13, 2012, IWM and Barclays Bank PLC, as issuer and calculation agent, entered into a basket composition agreement to govern IWM’s relationship with Barclays Bank PLC in respect of the Notes (the “Basket Composition Agreement”). Under the agreement, IWM has agreed to provide the calculation agent with the composition and weightings of the Basket Components included in the Basket described herein.

Under the Basket Composition Agreement, we have agreed to pay IWM as compensation for its services as Basket Selection Agent an amount equal to 2.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes.

SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We have agreed to sell to Barclays Capital Inc. (the “Agent”), and the Agent has agreed to purchase from us, the principal amount of the Notes, and at the price, specified on the cover of this pricing supplement. The Agent is committed to take and pay for all of the Notes, if any are taken.

 

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