Index License Provider- S-Network Global Indexes, Inc.

S-Network Global Indexes, Inc. (SNGI) is a publisher and developer of proprietary and custom indexes. Founded in 2005, SNGI publishes over 200 indexes, which provide the foundations for ETFs and other financial products with approximately $4 billion in assets under management. Key clients in this capacity include some of the world’s leading providers of ETFs, UITs, Structured Products and SMAs.

SNGI is an industry leader in the development of “smart beta” indexes, which isolate key investment factors to produce indexes with unique performance characteristics. The firm is also a leader in sustainable and impact investing, its most recent accomplishment being the development and maintenance of the Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Ratings and Indices, which create new common denominators for environmental, social, and governance benchmarking. SNGI produces several important Impact Indexes, including the S-Network Global Water Indexes and the Ardour Global Alternative Energy Indexes, which have been continuously published longer than any other indexes of their type.

The principals of SNGI maintain a wealth of indexing experience, having arbitraged, traded, managed, developed and maintained indexes either as employees of or consultants to some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including Deutsche Borse AG, State Street Bank & Trust, Deutsche Bank AG, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), among others. SNGI also provides FINRA- and IOSCO-compliant customized solutions to Registered Investment Advisors.