Partners

Factor Advisors has teamed up with a number of premier organizations in order to develop and offer FactorShares, including:

Standard & Poor's Financial Services, LLC

Standard & Poor's Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data.  With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.

State Street Corporation

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, including investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. With $19 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.9 trillion in assets under management at March 31, 2010, State Street operates in 25 countries and more than 100 geographic markets worldwide.

WithumSimith+Brown

With 14 offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Florida and Colorado, WithumSmith+Brown (WS+B) brings clients the benefits of a larger organization without sacrificing the attention and personal service that one expects from a local business. WS+B's regional offices ensure easy access to our dedicated, experienced team and the advice you need to achieve greater growth and financial success. Our clients represent a broad spectrum of industries and range in size from small, entrepreneurial startups to billion-dollar, publicly-held companies.

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an automated global electronic market maker and broker specializing in routing orders and executing and processing trades in securities, futures and foreign exchange instruments on more than 80 electronic exchanges and trading venues around the world. As a market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds from a single IB Universal AccountSM. Employing proprietary software on a global communications network, Interactive Brokers Group continuously integrates its software with a growing number of exchanges and trading venues into one automatically functioning, computerized platform that requires minimal human intervention. An affiliate of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc is a member of Factor Advisors, LLC, the parent and sole owner of the Managing Owner, Factor Capital Management, LLC.

NYSE Arca

NYSE Arca is a fully electronic exchange for growth-oriented enterprises. Listed companies can grow on NYSE Arca and transfer seamlessly to the NYSE once they meet the requirements. The all-electronic NYSE Arca is also a leading listing and trading platform for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), offering the largest public ETF liquidity pool in the U.S..

Esposito Securities

Esposito Securities LLC, provides institutional trading services with a growing list of clients including registered investment advisors, hedge funds, mutual funds, ETFs, closed end funds and unit investment trusts with trillions of dollars in assets.  With access to over 100+ international markets, Esposito maintains a global outreach.  The benchmark of Esposito Securities is a commitment to technological innovation, customer service and market savvy.

Sidley Austin

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood was founded in Chicago in 1866 and is now an international law firm with over 1,500 lawyers practicing on three continents. Sidley was named the number one law firm in the United States for overall client service by BTI Consulting in its most recent survey. The firm was also awarded the 2003 Thomas Sager Award by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association in recognition of the firm's diversity efforts.

Wilmington Trust

Company, which was founded in 1903, is one of the largest personal trust providers in the United States and the leading retail and commercial bank in Delaware. Wilmington Trust Corporation and its Wilmington Trust Corporation (NYSE: WL) is a financial services holding company that providesRegional Banking services throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Wealth Advisory services to high-net worth clients in 33 countries, and Corporate Client services to institutional clients in 86 countries. Its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Wilmington Trust affiliates have offices in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, London, Dublin, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, and Amsterdam.