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WMCR
 
Exchange Traded Funds
 
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12.29.2017
 
Guggenheim ETFs
Summary Prospectus
 
 
 
 
NYSE ARCA, Inc.
Ticker Symbol
Fund Name
WMCR
Wilshire Micro-Cap ETF













Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund online at guggenheiminvestments.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 800.820.0888 or by sending an e-mail request to etfinfo@guggenheiminvestments.com. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, each dated December 29, 2017, are incorporated by reference into (and are considered part of) this Summary Prospectus.

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Wilshire Micro-Cap ETF (WMCR)
 
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The Wilshire Micro-Cap ETF (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called the Wilshire US Micro-Cap IndexSM (the “Wilshire Micro-Cap Index” or the “Index”).
 
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors purchasing or selling Shares in the secondary market may be subject to costs (including customary brokerage commissions) charged by their broker. 
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.50
%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses1
0.08
%
Other Expenses
0.00
%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
0.58
%

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Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses include the Fund’s pro rata portion of the management fees and operating expenses of the business development companies (“BDCs”) in which the Fund invested during its most recently completed fiscal year. Since Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not directly borne by the Fund, they are not reflected in the Fund’s financial statements with the result that the information presented in the table will differ from that presented in the Fund’s financial highlights.

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 does not take into account brokerage commissions that you may pay when purchasing or selling Shares.
 
The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: 

One Year
Three Years
Five Years
Ten Years
$59
$186
$324
$726
 
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 rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 48% of the average value of its portfolio.
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
The Fund, using a “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, will seek investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of the Wilshire Micro-Cap Index. The Index is a rules-based index (i.e., an index based on specified criteria) comprised of, as of November 30, 2017, approximately 1,126 securities of micro-capitalization companies, including real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) and BDCs, as defined by Wilshire Associates Incorporated (“Wilshire®” or the “Index Provider”). The Index is designed to represent micro-sized companies and is a subset of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market IndexSM (the “Wilshire 5000”). The Index represents a float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index of the issues ranked below 2500 by market capitalization of the Wilshire 5000. Under normal conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities of micro-capitalization companies. In addition, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities that comprise the Index. The Fund has adopted a policy that requires the Fund to

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provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any material change in this policy or the Index. The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (the “Trust”) may change the Fund’s investment strategy and other policies without shareholder approval, except as otherwise indicated.
  
The Fund uses a sampling approach in seeking to achieve its objective. Sampling means that the Investment Adviser uses quantitative analysis to select securities from the Index universe to obtain a representative sample of securities that resemble the Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include industry weightings, market capitalization and other financial characteristics of securities. The quantity of holdings in the Fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund. However, the Fund may use replication to achieve its objective if practicable. There may also be instances when the Investment Adviser may choose to overweight another security in the Index or purchase (or sell) securities not in the Index, which the Investment Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for one or more Index components in seeking to accurately track the Index, such as: (i) regulatory requirements possibly affecting the Fund’s ability to hold a security in the Index, or (ii) liquidity concerns possibly affecting the Fund's ability to purchase or sell a security in the Index. In addition, from time to time, securities are added to or removed from the Index. The Fund may sell securities that are represented in the Index or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index pursuant to scheduled reconstitutions and rebalancings of the Index. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of its assets) in securities issued by companies whose principal business activities are in the same industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of August 31, 2017, the financial and consumer staples sectors each represented a substantial portion of the Index.
 
On September 28, 2017, Guggenheim Capital LLC entered into an agreement to sell its exchange-traded funds business to Invesco Ltd. (“Invesco”), a leading independent global investment management company (the “Transaction”). In connection with the Transaction, on November 15, 2017, the Board approved an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization providing for the reorganization of the Fund into a newly-created exchange-traded fund of the PowerShares by Invesco family of funds. The reorganization of the Fund will be submitted to shareholders of the Fund for their approval. 

PRINCIPAL RISKS
Investors should consider the principal risks associated with investing in the Fund, which are summarized below. The value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.

Asset Class Risk—The securities in the Fund’s portfolio may underperform the returns of other securities or indices that track other industries, markets, asset classes or sectors.

Concentration Risk—If the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated accordingly. In such event, the value of Shares may rise and fall more than the value of shares of a fund that invests in securities of companies in a broader range of industries and the Fund's performance will be particularly susceptible to adverse events impacting such industry.

Consumer Staples Sector Risk—Companies in the consumer staples sector may be adversely affected by changes in the global economy, consumer spending, competition, demographics and consumer preferences, and production spending. In addition, companies in the consumer staples sector may be subject to risks pertaining to the supply of, demand for and prices of raw materials. The Fund may be adversely affected by events or developments negatively impacting the consumer staples sector or issuers within the consumer staples sector.

Equity Securities Risk—The prices of equity securities generally fluctuate in value more than fixed-income investments, may rise or fall rapidly or unpredictably and may reflect real or perceived changes in the issuing company’s financial condition and changes in the overall market or economy. A decline in the value of equity securities held by the Fund will adversely affect the value of your investment in the Fund. Common stocks generally represent the riskiest investment in a company and dividend payments (if declared) to preferred stockholders generally rank junior to payments due to a company's debtholders. The Fund may lose a substantial part, or even all, of its investment in a company’s stock.

Financial Sector Risk—The financial sector can be significantly affected by changes in interest rates, government regulation, the rate of defaults on corporate, consumer and government debt, the availability and cost of capital,

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and the impact of more stringent capital requirements. The Fund may be adversely affected by events or developments negatively impacting the financial sector or issuers within the financial sector.

Investment in BDCs Risk—Investments in BDCs may be subject to certain inherent risks. BDCs, generally invest in less mature private companies, which involve greater risk than well-established, publicly-traded companies. The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), imposes certain restraints upon the operations of a BDC and these limitations may prohibit the way that the BDC raises capital.

Investment in Investment Companies Risk—Investing in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and closed-end funds, subjects the Fund to those risks affecting the investment company, including the possibility that the value of the underlying securities held by the investment company could decrease or the portfolio becomes illiquid. Moreover, the Fund and its shareholders will incur its pro rata share of the underlying investment companies’ expenses, which will reduce the Fund’s performance, and the purchase of shares of some investment companies (in the case of closed-end investment companies) may sometimes require the payment of substantial premiums above the value of such companies' portfolio securities or net asset values (“NAVs”). In addition, investments by the Fund in an ETF or closed-end fund are subject to, among other risks, the risk that the ETF's or closed-end fund's shares may trade at a discount or premium relative to the NAV of the shares and the listing exchange may halt trading of the ETF's or closed-end fund's shares.

Issuer-Specific Changes Risk—The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole. The value of securities of smaller issuers can be more volatile than those of larger issuers.

Market Price RiskShares are listed for trading on the NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “NYSE Arca”) and are bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. The market prices of Shares may fluctuate continuously during trading hours, in some cases materially, in response to changes in the NAV and supply and demand for Shares, among other factors. Although it is expected that the market price of Shares typically will remain closely correlated to the NAV, the market price will generally differ from the NAV because of timing reasons, supply and demand imbalances and other factors. As a result, the trading prices of Shares may deviate significantly from NAV during certain periods, especially those of market volatility. The Investment Adviser cannot predict whether Shares will trade above (premium), below (discount) or at their NAV. Thus, an investor may pay more than NAV when buying Shares in the secondary market and receive less than NAV when selling Shares in the secondary market.

Market Risk—The value of, or income generated by, the securities held by the Fund may fluctuate rapidly and unpredictably as a result of factors affecting individual companies or changing economic, political, social or financial market conditions throughout the world. The performance of these investments may underperform the general securities markets or other types of securities.

Micro-Capitalization Company Risk—Micro-capitalization stocks involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations.

Passive Management Risk—Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not “actively” managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security because the security’s issuer was in financial trouble or defaulted on its obligations under the security, or whose credit rating was downgraded, unless that security is removed from the Index. In addition, the Fund will not otherwise take defensive positions in declining markets unless such positions are reflected in the Index.

Regulatory and Legal Risk—U.S. and non-U.S. governmental agencies and other regulators regularly implement additional regulations and legislators may pass new laws that affect the investments held by the Fund, the strategies used by the Fund or the level of regulation or taxation applying to the Fund. These may impact the investment strategies, performance, costs and operations of the Fund or taxation of shareholders.

REIT RiskIn addition to the risks pertaining to real estate investments more generally, REITs are subject to additional risks. The value of a REIT can depend on the structure of and cash flow generated by the REIT. REITs whose investments are concentrated in a limited number or type of properties, investments or narrow geographic area are subject to the risks affecting those properties or areas to a greater extent than a REIT with less concentrated investments. REITs are also subject to certain requirements under federal tax law. In addition, REITs

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may have expenses, including advisory and administration expenses, and the Fund and its shareholders will incur its pro rata share of the underlying expenses.

Small-Capitalization Securities RiskThe Fund is subject to the risk that small-capitalization securities may underperform other segments of the equity market or the equity market as a whole. Securities of small-capitalization companies may be more speculative, volatile and less liquid than securities of larger companies. Small-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources, and may be more vulnerable to adverse developments than mid- or large- capitalization companies.

Tracking Error Risk—The performance of the Fund may diverge from that of the Index for a number of reasons, including operating expenses, transaction costs, cash flows and operational inefficiencies. The Fund’s return also may diverge from the return of the Index because the Fund bears the costs and risks associated with buying and selling securities (especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the Index) while such costs and risks are not factored into the return of the Index. Transaction costs, including brokerage costs, will decrease the Fund’s NAV to the extent not offset by the transaction fee payable by an Authorized Participant (“AP”). Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track the Index. In addition, the Fund may use a representative sampling approach, which may cause the Fund's returns to not be as well correlated with the return of the Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Index in the proportions represented in the Index. Errors in the Index data, the Index computations and/or the construction of the Index in accordance with its methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders. In addition, the Fund may be unable to invest in certain securities included in the Index, or invest in them in the exact proportions in which they are represented in the Index, due to legal restrictions or limitations, a lack of liquidity on stock exchanges in which such securities trade, potential adverse tax consequences or other regulatory reasons. For tax efficiency purposes, the Fund may sell certain securities, and such sale may cause the Fund to realize a loss and, thus, the Fund's performance to deviate from the performance of the Index. In light of the factors discussed above, the Fund’s return may deviate significantly from the return of the Index.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
The following chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the Fund’s performance from year to year and average annual returns for the one, five and ten year periods compared to those of the Index and broad measures of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Fund is available at guggenheiminvestments.com.

Effective August 20, 2010, changes were made to the Fund's investment objective. Prior to August 20, 2010, the Fund sought investment results that corresponded generally to the performance, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of the Sabrient Stealth Index. Thus, performance prior to that date reflects the Fund's prior investment objective.


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Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31
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The Fund’s year-to-date total return was 13.20% as of September 30, 2017.
Highest Quarter Return
Q2 2009 22.85%
  
Lowest Quarter Return
Q4 2008 -30.85%

Average Annual Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31, 2016)

After-tax returns shown in the table are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of any state or local tax. 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 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”).
 
1 year
5 years
10 years
Return Before Taxes
19.39%
16.34%
2.80%
Return After Taxes on Distributions
18.54%
15.45%
2.00%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
10.98%
12.75%
1.76%
Wilshire US Micro-Cap Index SM (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
17.86%
15.95%
5.75%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
21.31%
14.46%
7.07%
S&P 500® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
11.96%
14.66%
6.95%

MANAGEMENT OF THE FUND
Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC serves as the investment adviser of the Fund. The portfolio managers who are currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio are Michael P. Byrum, CFA, Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, James R. King, CFA, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, and Adrian Bachman, CFA, Director and Portfolio Manager.  Messrs. Byrum and King have managed the Fund’s portfolio since December 2013. Mr. Bachman has managed the Fund's portfolio since December 2014.

PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at NAV only in a large specified number of Shares called a “Creation Unit” or multiples thereof with certain large institutional investors. A Creation Unit consists of 100,000 Shares. Creation Unit transactions are principally conducted in exchange for the deposit or delivery of securities specified by the

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Fund. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers and may not be purchased or redeemed directly with the Fund. Shares are listed for trading on the NYSE Arca and, because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at a price greater than (premium) or less than (discount) NAV.
 
TAX INFORMATION
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains.
 
PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Investment Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.


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