One off Methodology Change | Solactive Junior Gold Miners Custom Factors Index | Effective Date 17th September 2025

Today, on the 17th September 2025, Solactive announces the following one-off change to the methodology of the following indices (the ‘Affected Indices’):

Rationale for methodology change

In order to respond to recent developments in the gold market and to preserve the integrity and the implementability of the index’s weighting methodology, Solactive has decided to make a one-off adjustment to the index guideline. This change affects the security-level market capitalization requirement as outlined in Section 2.1 of the methodology.

One off change to the Index Guideline

The minimum market capitalization threshold for eligible securities will be revised from below USD 2 billion to below USD 3 billion. This adjustment is being implemented as a one-time change and does not represent an ongoing modification to the index methodology.