Merrill Lynch Global Commodities is a worldwide leader in commodities trading. Our wide-ranging portfolio of investor products includes innovative swap and note structures linked to commodity indices and individual commodities. We have created institutional and retail products with a range of customizable features including principal protection, buy/write and relative value strategies and customized payouts. Merrill Lynch is a top-tier global trader of natural gas, crude oil and refined products, emissions and other energy-related commodities. We have a dedicated commodities research team, which has published in-depth analysis on a broad scope of alternative asset related topics. With a targeted pension, endowment and foundation sales team, Merrill Lynch is uniquely positioned to address the evolving needs of this investor group.

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.8 trillion. As an investment bank, we are a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. The company offers an extensive line of Internet, software, and print-based products and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutional clients. Morningstar provides data on more than 190,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles. The company has operations in 15 countries and minority ownership positions in companies based in three other countries. Morningstar Indexes offers a broad range of equity, fixed income and commodity indexes. These indexes are used for asset allocation and benchmarking purposes, as well as for portfolio construction and market analysis.

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Bank (SGCIB) is a leading market participant operating in over 60 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia- Pacific. It’s strength is derived from its expertise in equity and equity-derivative solutions, foreign exchange and commodity trading, securitization and structured finance. SG CIB’s most recent innovation is the creation of Quantum, an integrated trading platform providing access to all of the bank’s client execution services: algorithmic trading (Alpha), direct market access, program trading, sales-trading, arbitrage execution strategies and ETF trading. The Quantum suite of execution products is available through broker-neutral OMS and EMS platforms. www.sgcib.com New York +1 212 278 5100. London +44 20 7762 5012. Paris +33 1 58 98 17 68. Hong Kong + 852 2166 4939.

Macquarie’s Treasury and Commodities Group is active in a broad range of financial and physical commodities markets globally, with a worldwide team of professionals who have in-depth knowledge across a range of commodity sectors. Macquarie is a leading provider
of price risk management solutions for producers, consumers, trade participants and investors in the agricultural commodities sector.

Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a leading provider of global financial information, analysis, advice, and credit ratings. With nearly $US 5 trillion in world wide assets benchmarked to its indices and over 80 years of experience as a global index innovator, Standard & Poor’s is widely regarded as an authoritative source for index information and as a pioneer in index development for sophisticated index-linked products.

The S&P/GSCI™ is widely used as a leading measure of general price movements and inflation in the world economy. The index series comprises several sub indices including commodity sectors, single components, as well as thematic baskets such as Biofuel and Petroleum. Indices
are available in Yen and Euro currency denominations on both a hedged and un-hedged basis. Standard & Poor’s also calculates a series of energy capped benchmarks which offer
stepped reductions in exposure to the energy sector: S&P GSCI Reduced Energy, Light Energy, and Ultra-Light Energy. The S&P GSCI is also available in forward month versions from 1 to
5 months.

Information on Standard & Poor’s indices and complete details of the S&P GSCI are available on our Web site at www.indices.standardandpoors.com.

Dow Jones Indexes is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones Indexes is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, the world’s leading pan-European indexes, and together with Wilshire Associates provides the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family, which is anchored by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 and covers more than 60 countries and 12,000 securities. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is a unit of Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com), a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). For more information visit www.djindexes.com.

Jefferies Financial Products, LLC ("JFP"), Jefferies' commodities group, provides innovative financial products and commodity index expertise to pension funds, mutual funds, sovereigns, foundations, endowments and other institutional investors seeking exposure to commodities as an asset class. Jefferies is a leading market maker in benchmark commodity index products and a licensed provider of swaps, options and other derivative products linked to all major commodity indices. Jefferies also provides enhanced commodity index vehicles -- passive, long-only products designed to outperform standard benchmark indices with minimal levels of tracking error. JFP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (www.jefferies.com/commodities) Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and midsized companies and their investors for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities serving institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF; www.jefferies.com).

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that maintains significant market positions in each of its business segments—Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group and Asset Management. The Company, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides its products and services to a large and diversified group of clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals. A summary of the activities of each of the segments follows:

Institutional Securities includes capital raising; financial advisory services, including advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate and project finance; corporate lending; sales, trading, financing and market-making activities in equity securities and related products and fixed income securities and related products, including foreign exchange and commodities; benchmark indices and risk management analytics; research; and investment activities.

Global Wealth Management Group provides brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; banking and cash management and credit solutions; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. Asset Management provides global asset management products and services in equity, fixed income and alternative investment products to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third-party retail distribution channels, intermediaries and the Company’s institutional distribution channel. Asset Management also engages in investment activities.

PIRA Energy Group, founded in 1976, is an international energy consulting firm offering Retainer Client Services as well as customized consulting on a broad range of subjects in the international oil, natural gas, electricity, coal, biofuels and emissions markets. PIRA provides evaluation of key U.S. and international energy fundamentals and issues that impact the behavior and performance of the industry and its various markets and sectors. Currently, more than 500 entities in over 60 countries subscribe to PIRA Client Services, including international and national integrated oil and gas companies, independent producers, refiners, marketers, oil and gas pipelines, electric and gas utilities, industrials, airlines, trading companies, financial institutions, hedge funds, and government agencies.