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MERRILL LYNCH RPM INDEX

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MODERN INDEX CONSTRUCTION SEEKING BROAD DIVERSIFICATION

The RPM Index is designed to leverage principles used by the largest financial institutions—including diversification, positive momentum and risk control — to help generate consistent returns in good and bad market environments. Diversification starts with a group of global asset classes across equities, fixed income and real assets:

  • Domestic Equities
  • International Equities
  • Emerging Markets Equities
  • Gold
  • Real Estate
  • Bonds

The RPM Index applies a rules-based approach to eliminate emotion, bias and the need to time the markets. The asset classes are rebalanced each month to reduce risk and correlation while leveraging positive short-term momentum. The result is an index that seeks to provide a broader level of diversification.

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RISK — Rapid price changes up or down increase the risk of short-term losses. Each month, the RPM Index is designed to allocate more to asset classes exhibiting lower risk and less to asset classes exhibiting higher risk. Daily risk control is applied, which seeks to further reduce risk.