Announcement Methodology Change | Solactive China Clean Energy Index, Solactive China Electric Vehicle Index | Effective Date 10/01/2020

Today, on the 10/01/2020, Solactive announces the following changes to the methodology of the following Indices (the ‘Affected Indices):

Rationale for methodology change

Solactive has determined that the selection process of the indices is not suitable for the defined weight capping mechanism, leaving room for a potential selection where the weights do not add up to 100%. As this would make the index calculation infeasible, the selection process will be extended to make sure that there are enough securities in the index to apply the weight capping mechanism.

Changes to the Index Guideline

The wording in Section 2.1 of the index guideline is extended by an additional step, step 9, with the following wording:

9. Should less than 15 securities fulfill the requirements until and including step 8, the largest security/securities per Total Market Capitalization that does/do not fulfill the requirements until and including step 8, but fulfills/fulfill the requirements until and including step 7, is/are selected until the Index Universe consists of 15 securities.

Defined terms used in this announcement, but not defined herein, have the meaning assigned to them in the respective index guideline of the Affected Indices. The amended version of the index guideline will be available on the effective date.