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ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
HEDGE REPLICATION ETF
Investment Objective
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that, before fees and expenses, track the performance of the Merrill Lynch Factor Model — Exchange Series (the “Benchmark”).
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy or hold shares of the Fund.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
Investment Advisory Fees 0.75%
Other Expenses 0.88%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses Before Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements 1.63%
Fee Waiver/Reimbursement [1] (0.68%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements 0.95%
[1] ProShare Advisors LLC ("ProShare Advisors") has contractually agreed to waive Investment Advisory and Management Services Fees and to reimburse Other Expenses to the extent Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses Before Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements, as a percentage of average daily net assets, exceed 0.95% through September 30, 2014. After that date, the expense limitation may be terminated or revised. Amounts waived or reimbursed in a particular contractual period may be recouped by ProShare Advisors within five years of the end of that contractual period to the extent that recoupment will not cause the Fund's expenses to exceed any expense limitation in place at that time.
Example:
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.

The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of each period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same, except that the fee waiver/expense reimbursement is assumed only to pertain to the first year. Although your actual cost may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your approximate costs would be:
Expense Example (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
97 448 822 1,876
The Fund pays transaction and financing costs associated with the purchase and sale of securities and derivatives. In addition, investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of the Fund’s shares. These costs are not reflected in the table or the example above.
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when the Fund’s shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example above, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s annual portfolio turnover rate was 81% of the average value of its entire portfolio. This portfolio turnover rate is calculated without regard to cash instrument or derivatives transactions. If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate would be significantly higher.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund invests in securities and derivatives that ProShare Advisors believes, in combination, should track the performance of the Benchmark. The Benchmark, established by Merrill Lynch International, seeks to provide the risk and return characteristics of the hedge fund asset class by targeting a high correlation to the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (the “HFRI”). The HFRI is designed to reflect hedge fund industry performance through an equally weighted composite of over 2000 constituent funds. In seeking to maintain a high correlation with the HFRI, the Benchmark utilizes a systematic model to establish, each month, weighted long or short (or, in certain cases, long or flat) positions in six underlying factors (“Factors”). The Factors that comprise the Benchmark are (1) the S&P 500 Total Return Index, (2) the MSCI EAFE US Dollar Net Total Return Index, (3) the MSCI Emerging Markets US Dollar Net Total Return Index, (4) the Russell 2000 Total Return Index, (5) three-month U.S. Treasury Bills, and (6) the ProShares UltraShort Euro ETF. The Benchmark is not comprised of, and the Fund does not invest in, any hedge fund or group of hedge funds. The Benchmark is published under the Bloomberg ticker symbol “MLEIFCTX.” It is expected that, at any given point in time, the Fund will be substantially invested in three-month U.S. Treasury Bills, which is one of the Factors, or other short-term debt instruments that have a remaining maturity of 397 days or less and exhibit high quality credit profiles in order to gain exposure to the three-month U.S. Treasury Bill rate.

Because the levels of certain Factors of the Benchmark are not determined at the same time that the Fund’s NAV is calculated, correlation to the Benchmark is measured by comparing a combination of the daily total return of: (a) the Factors that are determined at the same time that the Fund’s NAV is determined; and (b) one or more U.S. exchange-traded securities or financial instruments that reflect the values of the Factors that are not determined at the same time that the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) is determined (as of the Fund’s NAV calculation time), to the daily total return of the NAV per share of the Fund.

For a further description of the Benchmark, please see “Additional Information on Certain Underlying Indexes” in the back of the Fund’s Full Prospectus.

The securities and derivatives that the Fund will principally invest in are set forth below. Cash balances arising from the use of derivatives will typically be held in money market instruments.
  • Equity Securities — The Fund invests in common stock issued by public companies.
  • Derivatives — The Fund invests in derivatives, which are financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds or funds (including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”)), interest rates or indexes. The Fund invests in derivatives as a substitute for investing directly in or making short sales of the securities underlying the Benchmark. These derivatives principally include:
  • Swap Agreements — Contracts entered into primarily with major global financial institutions for a specified period ranging from a day to more than one year. In a standard “swap” transaction, two parties agree to exchange the return (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on particular predetermined investments or instruments. The gross return to be exchanged or “swapped” between the parties is calculated with respect to a “notional amount,” e.g., the return on or change in value of a particular dollar amount invested in a “basket” of securities representing a particular index.
  • Futures Contracts — Standardized contracts traded on, or subject to the rules of, an exchange that call for the future delivery of a specified quantity and type of asset at a specified time and place or, alternatively, may call for cash settlement.
  • Money Market Instruments — The Fund invests in short-term cash instruments that have a remaining maturity of 397 days or less and exhibit high quality credit profiles, including:
  • U.S. Treasury Bills — U.S. government securities that have initial maturities of one year or less, and are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States.
  • Repurchase Agreements — Contracts in which a seller of securities, usually U.S. government securities or other money market instruments, agrees to buy them back at a specified time and price. Repurchase agreements are primarily used by the Fund as a short-term investment vehicle for cash positions.
  • Depositary Receipts — The Fund may invest in depositary receipts, which principally include
  • American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which represent the right to receive securities of foreign issuers deposited in a bank or trust company.
  • Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), which are receipts for shares in a foreign-based corporation traded in capital markets around the world.
ProShare Advisors follows a passive approach to investing that is designed to track the performance of the Benchmark. The Fund attempts to track the performance of the Benchmark by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in investments that make up the Benchmark or in financial instruments that provide similar exposure. The Fund may invest in or gain exposure to only a representative sample of the securities that comprise the Factors of the Benchmark or securities not contained in the Benchmark or in financial instruments, with the intent of obtaining exposure with aggregate characteristics similar to those of the Benchmark. ProShare Advisors does not invest the assets of the Fund in securities or financial instruments based on ProShare Advisors’ view of the investment merit of a particular security or instrument, nor does it conduct conventional investment research or analysis or forecast market movement or trends, in managing the assets of the Fund. The Fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities (including three-month U.S. Treasury Bills and other money market instruments) and/or financial instruments that, in combination, provide exposure to the Benchmark without regard to market conditions, trends or direction.

The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as the Factors of the Benchmark are so concentrated.

Please see “Investment Objectives, Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks” in the back of the Fund’s Full Prospectus for additional details.
Principal Risks
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
  • Risks Associated with the Use of Derivatives — The Fund obtains investment exposure through derivatives, which may be considered aggressive. Investing in derivatives may expose the Fund to greater risks than investing directly in the reference asset(s) underlying those derivatives, such as counterparty risk, liquidity risk and increased correlation risk (each as discussed below). When the Fund uses derivatives, there may be imperfect correlation between the value of the reference asset(s) and the derivative, which may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective. The Fund may use a combination of swaps, futures and forwards on the Benchmark or an underlying Factor and swaps, futures and forwards on an ETF that is designed to track the performance of an underlying Factor. The performance of an ETF may not track the performance of an underlying Factor due to embedded costs and other factors. Thus, to the extent the Fund invests in swaps, futures and forwards that use an ETF as the reference asset, the Fund may be subject to greater correlation risk and may not achieve as high a degree of correlation with the Benchmark or an underlying Factor as it would if the Fund only used swaps, futures and forwards on the Benchmark or an underlying Factor. Moreover, with respect to the use of swap agreements, if the Benchmark or underlying factor has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the Fund’s net assets, the terms of a swap agreement between the Fund and its counterparty may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction with the Fund. In that event, the Fund may be unable to enter into another swap agreement or invest in other derivatives to achieve the desired exposure consistent with the Fund’s investment objective. This, in turn, may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective, even if the Benchmark or an underlying Factor reverses all or a portion of its intraday move by the end of the day. Any costs associated with using derivatives may also have the effect of lowering the Fund’s return.
  • Long/Short Risk — The Fund seeks long exposure to certain Factors and short exposure to certain other Factors. There is no guarantee that the returns on the Fund’s long or short positions will produce high, or even positive, returns and the Fund could lose money if either or both the Fund’s long and short positions produce negative returns.
  • Benchmark Performance Risk — There is no guarantee or assurance that the methodology used to create the Benchmark will result in the Fund achieving high, or even positive, returns. The Benchmark may underperform more traditional indices. In turn, the Fund could lose value while the levels of other indices or measures of market performance increase. The Benchmark does not in any way represent a managed hedge fund or group of hedge funds, and there is no guarantee that it will achieve returns correlated with any hedge fund, group of hedge funds, or the HFRI. Neither ProShare Advisors nor Merrill Lynch International has any control over the composition or compilation of the HFRI, and there is no guarantee that the HFRI will continue to be produced.
  • Correlation Risk — A number of factors may affect the Fund’s ability to achieve a high degree of correlation with the Benchmark, and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation. Failure to achieve a high degree of correlation may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective. The factors that may adversely affect the Fund’s correlation with the Benchmark include fees, expenses, transaction costs, financing costs associated with the use of derivatives, income items, valuation methodology, accounting standards and disruptions or illiquidity in the markets for the securities or financial instruments in which the Fund invests. In addition, on each trading day, the closing levels of the Factors that comprise the Benchmark are, in certain cases, calculated earlier or later than the time of valuation for the Fund. The Fund may not have investment exposure to all Factors in the Benchmark or the securities comprising these Factors and its weighting of investment exposure to such Factors may be different from that of the Benchmark. In addition, the Fund may invest in securities not included in the Benchmark or in financial instruments. The Fund may also be subject to large movements of assets into and out of the Fund, potentially resulting in the Fund being over- or underexposed to the Benchmark and may be impacted by Benchmark reconstitutions and Benchmark rebalancing events. Any of these factors could decrease correlation between the performance of the Fund and the Benchmark and may hinder the Fund’s ability to meet its investment objective.
  • Counterparty Risk — The Fund will be subject to credit risk (i.e., the risk that a counterparty is unwilling or unable to make timely payments to meet its contractual obligations) with respect to the amount it expects to receive from counterparties to financial instruments and repurchase agreements entered into by the Fund. If a counterparty becomes bankrupt or fails to perform its obligations, the value of an investment in the Fund may decline.
  • Debt Instrument Risk — The Fund will invest in, or seek exposure to, debt instruments. Debt instruments may have varying levels of sensitivity to changes in interest rates, issuer credit risk and other factors. In addition, changes in the credit quality of the issuer of a debt instrument can also affect the price of a debt instrument, as can an issuer’s default on its payment obligations.

    These factors may cause the value of an investment in the Fund to change. Also, the securities of certain U.S. government agencies, authorities or instrumentalities are neither issued by nor guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government, and may be exposed to more credit risk than securities issued by and guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government. All U.S. government securities are subject to credit risk. It is possible that the U.S. government may not be able to meet its financial obligations or that securities issued by the U.S. government may experience credit downgrades. Any credit event may also adversely impact the financial markets.
  • Early Close/Late Close/Trading Halt Risk — An exchange or market may close early, close late or issue trading halts on specific securities, or the ability to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments may be restricted, which may result in the Fund being unable to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments. In these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to rebalance its portfolio, may be unable to accurately price its investments and/or may incur substantial trading losses.
  • Equity and Market Risk — The equity markets are volatile, and the value of securities, swaps, futures and other instruments correlated with the equity markets may fluctuate dramatically from day-to-day. Equity markets are subject to corporate, political, regulatory, market and economic developments, as well as developments that impact specific economic sectors, industries or segments of the market. Further, stocks in the Benchmark may underperform other equity investments. Volatility in the markets and/or market developments may cause the value of an investment in the Fund to decrease.
  • Exposure to Foreign Currency Risk — Investments denominated in foreign currencies are exposed to risk factors in addition to investments denominated in U.S. dollars. The value of an investment linked to a foreign currency could change significantly as foreign currencies strengthen or weaken relative to the U.S. dollar. Risks related to foreign currencies also include those related to economic or political developments, market inefficiencies or a higher risk that essential investment information may be incomplete, unavailable, or inaccurate. A U.S. dollar investment in Depositary Receipts or ordinary shares of foreign issuers traded on U.S. exchanges or an investment in an instrument linked to a foreign currency are subject to foreign currency risk. Losses related to the performance of foreign currencies could offset or exceed any potential gains, or add to losses, in the related Fund investments.
  • Exposure to Foreign Investments Risk — Exposure to securities of foreign issuers may provide the Fund with increased risk. Various factors related to foreign investments may negatively impact the Benchmark’s performance, such as: i) fluctuations in the value of the applicable foreign currency; ii) differences in securities settlement practices; iii) uncertainty associated with evidence of ownership of investments in countries that lack centralized custodial services; iv) possible regulation of, or other limitations on, investments by U.S. investors in foreign investments; v) potentially higher brokerage commissions; vi) the possibility that a foreign government may withhold portions of interest and dividends at the source; vii) taxation of income earned in foreign countries or other foreign taxes imposed; viii) foreign exchange controls, which may include suspension of the ability to transfer currency from a foreign country; ix) less publicly available information about foreign issuers; x) changes in the denomination currency of a foreign investment; and xi) less certain legal systems in which the Fund might encounter difficulties or be unable to pursue legal remedies.

    Foreign investments also may be more susceptible to political, social, economic and regional factors than might be the case with U.S. securities. In addition, markets for foreign investments are usually less liquid, more volatile and significantly smaller than markets for U.S. securities, which may affect, among other things, the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell foreign investments at appropriate times.

    Because the Fund’s foreign investments may be in developing or “emerging market” countries, all the aforementioned factors may be heightened and foreign investments risk may be higher.
  • Geographic Concentration Risk — Because the Fund focuses its investments in particular foreign countries or geographic regions, it may be more volatile than a more geographically diversified fund. The performance of the Fund will be affected by the political, social and economic conditions in those foreign countries and geographic regions and subject to the related risks. In particular, the European markets have experienced significant volatility over recent years and several European Union member countries have been adversely affected by unemployment, budget deficits and economic downturns, which have caused those countries to experience credit rating downgrades and rising government debt levels. These events, or even the threat these events, may cause the value of debt issued by issuers in European countries to fall (in some cases drastically) and may cause further volatility in the European financial markets, either of which may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
  • Liquidity Risk — In certain circumstances, such as the disruption of the orderly markets for the securities or financial instruments in which the Fund invests, the Fund might not be able to acquire or dispose of certain holdings quickly or at prices that represent true market value in the judgment of ProShare Advisors. Markets for the securities or financial instruments in which the Fund invests may be disrupted by a number of events, including but not limited to economic crises, natural disasters, new legislation, or regulatory changes inside or outside of the U.S. For example, regulation limiting the ability of certain financial institutions to invest in certain securities would likely reduce the liquidity of those securities. These situations may prevent the Fund from limiting losses, realizing gains or achieving a high correlation with the Benchmark.
  • Market Price Variance Risk — The Fund’s shares are listed for trading on the NYSE Arca and can be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. The market prices of shares will fluctuate in response to changes in the value of the Fund’s holdings and supply and demand for shares. ProShare Advisors cannot predict whether shares will trade above, below or at a price equal to the value of the Fund’s holdings. Given the fact that shares can be created and redeemed in Creation Units, as defined below, ProShare Advisors believes that large discounts or premiums to the value of the Fund’s holdings should not be sustained. The Fund’s investment results are measured based upon the daily NAV of the Fund. Investors purchasing and selling shares in the secondary market may not experience investment results consistent with those experienced by investors creating and redeeming shares directly with the Fund.
  • Non-Diversification Risk — The Fund is classified as “non-diversified” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and has the ability to invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in the securities of a small number of issuers susceptible to a single economic, political or regulatory event, or in financial instruments with a single counterparty. This may increase the Fund’s volatility and cause performance of a relatively smaller number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance.
  • Portfolio Turnover Risk — Active market trading of the Fund’s shares may cause more frequent creation or redemption activities that could, in certain circumstances, increase the number of portfolio transactions. High levels of transactions increase brokerage and other transaction costs and may result in increased taxable capital gains.
  • Short Sale Exposure Risk — The Fund may seek inverse or “short” exposure through financial instruments such as swap agreements and futures contracts, which may cause the Fund to be exposed to certain risks associated with selling securities short. These risks include, under certain market conditions, an increase in the volatility and decrease in the liquidity of securities underlying the short position, which may lower the Fund’s return, result in a loss, have the effect of limiting the Fund’s ability to obtain inverse exposure through financial instruments such as swap agreements and futures contracts, or require the Fund to seek inverse exposure through alternative investment strategies that may be less desirable or may be more costly to implement. To the extent that, at any particular point in time, the securities underlying the short position may be thinly traded or have a limited market, including due to regulatory action, the Fund may be unable to meet its investment objective due to a lack of available securities or counterparties. During such periods, the Fund’s ability to issue additional Creation Units may be adversely affected. Obtaining inverse exposure through these instruments may be considered an aggressive investment technique.
  • Small- and Mid-Cap Company Investment Risk — The Benchmark and, by extension, the Fund are exposed to stocks of small- and mid-cap companies. The risk of equity investing may be particularly acute for securities of issuers with smaller market capital-izations. Small- and mid-cap company stocks may trade at greater spreads or lower trading volumes, and may be less liquid than the stocks of larger companies. Small- and mid-cap companies may have limited product lines or resources, may be dependent upon a particular market niche and may have greater fluctuations in price than the stocks of larger companies. Further, stocks of small- and mid-sized companies could be more difficult to liquidate during market downturns compared to larger, more widely traded companies. In addition, small- and mid-cap companies may lack the financial and personnel resources to handle economic or industry-wide setbacks and, as a result, such setbacks could have a greater effect on small- and mid-cap security prices.
  • Valuation Risk — In certain circumstances, portfolio securities may be valued using techniques other than market quotations. The value established for a portfolio security may be different from what would be produced through the use of another methodology or if it had been priced using market quotations. Portfolio securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that a Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that a Fund would incur a loss because a portfolio security is sold at a discount to its established value.
  • Valuation Time Risk — The Fund typically values its portfolio at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). The closing levels of the Factors that comprise the Benchmark are, in certain cases, calculated earlier or later than the time the Fund typically values its portfolio.

    Moreover, the shares of the Fund trade on the NYSE Arca from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). The securities or derivatives (and/or reference assets on which the derivatives are based) held by the Fund, however, may be traded in markets that close at different time than the NYSE Arca. Consequently, liquidity in the securities or derivatives (and/or their reference assets) may be reduced after the applicable closing times. Accordingly, during the time when the NYSE Arca is open but after the applicable closing, fixing or settlement times, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Fund’s shares may widen. As a result, the performance of the market price of the Fund may vary, perhaps significantly, from the performance of the Benchmark.
Please see “Investment Objectives, Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks” in the back of the Fund’s Full Prospectus for additional details.
Investment Results
The bar chart below shows the Fund’s investment results during its first full calendar year of operations, and the table shows how the Fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compare with a broad measure of market performance. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Past results (before and after taxes) are not predictive of future results. Updated information on the Fund’s results can be obtained by visiting ProShares.com.
Annual Returns as of December 31
Bar Chart
Best Quarter (ended 3/31/2012): 2.30%
Worst Quarter (ended 6/30/2012): -1.88%
The year-to-date return as of the most recent quarter,
which ended June 30, 2013, was 0.18%.
Average Annual Total Returns
As of December 31, 2012
Average Annual Total Returns
One Year
Since Inception
Inception Date
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
3.29% 0.15% Jul. 12, 2011
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF After Taxes on Distributions
3.27% 0.14%  
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares
2.16% 0.13%  
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF Merrill Lynch Factor Model — Exchange Series
[1] 4.18% 0.80%  
[1] Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes. Adjusted to reflect the reinvestment of dividends paid by companies in the Benchmark. Since inception returns are calculated from the date the Fund commenced operations, not the date of inception of the Benchmark.
Average annual total returns are shown on a before- and after-tax basis for the Fund. After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as a retirement account. After-tax returns may exceed the return before taxes due to a tax benefit from realizing a capital loss on a sale of shares.