EX-99.a.2

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST

OF

EMPOWERED FUNDS ETF TRUST

This Certificate of Trust is being duly executed and filed on behalf of the statutory Trust formed hereby by the undersigned, the sole Trustee of the Trust, to form a statutory Trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del.C §3801 et seq).

The undersigned hereby certifies as follows:

ARTICLE I

The name of the statutory Trust formed hereby is:

"EMPOWEREDFUNDSETFTRUST"(the "Trust").

ARTICLE II

The name and business address of a trustee of the Trust is:

Wesley R. Gray

213 Foxcroft Road

Broomall, Pennsylvania 19008

ARTICLE III

The Trust is, or will become prior to or within 180 days following the first issuance of beneficial interests, a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended(l5 U.S.C. §§80a-l et seq).

ARTICLE IV

The address of the registered office of the Trust in the State of Delaware is:

c/o Harvard Business Services, Inc.

16192 Coastal Highway

Lewes, Delaware 19958

ARTICLE V

The address of the registered agent for service of process on the Trust in the State of Delaware is:

c/o Harvard Business Services, Inc.

16192 Coastal Highway

Lewes, Delaware 19958

The name of the registered agent at such address is:  Harvard Business Services, Inc.

ARTICLEVI

The Trust Instrument relating to the Trust provides for the issuance of one or more series of shares of beneficial interest in the Trust which series are divisible into any number of classes representing interests in the assets belonging to that series. Separate and distinct records shall be maintained by the Trust for each series and the assets associated solely with any such series shall be held and accounted for separately (directly or indirectly, including through a nominee or otherwise) from the assets of the Trust generally or of any other series. As provided in the Trust Instrument, (i) the debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to a particular series or class shall be enforceable against the assets of such series or class only, and not against the assets of the Trust generally or assets belonging to any other series or class, and (ii) none of the debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to the Trust generally that have not been allocated to a specified series or class shall be enforceable against the assets of any other series or class.

ARTICLEVII

This Certificate of Trust shall become effective upon filing in the Office of the Secretary of State of Delaware.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, as the sole initial Trustee of the Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of this 10th day of October 2013.

/s/ Wesley R. Gray       

Name: Wesley R. Gray

Title:   Trustee