XShares filed today to pull its registration of 20 ETFs that would have flown under the IndexIQ banner. Those ETFs are as follows:

• IndexIQ(TM)  Innovation Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Innovation Leaders Small Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Market Power Leaders Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Market Power Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Quality Growth Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Quality Growth Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Efficient Operations Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Efficient Operations Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Productivity Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Productivity Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Effective Workforce Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Effective Workforce Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Corporate Governance Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Corporate Governance Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Competitive Momentum Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Competitive Momentum Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Customer Loyalty Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Customer Loyalty Leaders Large Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Sustainability Leaders All Cap Fund
• IndexIQ(TM)  Sustainability Leaders Large Cap Fund

Here's how the prospectus described the Innovation Leaders All Cap fund's strategy:

The Fund employs a "passive management" investment strategy designed to track the performance of the IndexIQ(TM) Most Innovative Companies All Cap Index, an index of U.S. common stocks of companies that, regardless of capitalization, have been identified as the "most innovative" by the Index Administrators and therefore are included in the IndexIQ(TM) Most Innovative Companies All Cap Index. The components of this Index are derived using a purely quantitative, rules-based methodology. An "innovative" company is a company that demonstrates favorable results across multiple metrics related to corporate innovation, such as research & development spending and the value of its intellectual property. The IndexIQ(TM) Most Innovative Companies All Cap Index is typically comprised of 100 component securities of companies with market capitalizations of at least $300 million.

I guess that pretty much dashes our hopes of putting on an effective workforce/productively leaders arb.

Anyhoo.

are there any coming commodity ETFs?  By the way, where can I find a good/recommended commodity ETF?

thx.

Hi Tigerz.

Oh yes. There are more in the pipeline. Barclays and ProShares have a whole mess of them in the registration queue.

Probably your best bet for figuring out what's in the pipeline is a list that IndexUniverse maintains. You can find it here.

Regards,

Jeff Ptak

Morningstar, Inc.