The Rogers Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (RVEI) gives investors a chance to ride the commodities bull by accessing a universe of producers from all over the world. Most of the index’s components are producers of raw materials for agriculture, alternative energy, base and industrial metals, energy, forest products and precious metals.

To invest with it, Market Vectors-RVE Hard Asset Producers ETF (HAP) seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield performance of the Rogers-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (RVEI of the Index) by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the RVEI. RVEI, calculated and maintained by S-Network Global Indexes LLC, is a rules-based index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the production and distribution of hard assets and related products and services. RVEI comprises a global group of companies involved in six hard assets sectors: agriculture, energy, base metals, precious metals, forest products and water/renewable energy sources (solar and wind). The Fund’s investment advisor is Van Eck Associates Corporation