ETFS Equity Securities Limited announced that Mark Weeks has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Issuer, with effect from 17 October 2014. Mr. Weeks is the Chief Executive Officer of ETF Securities (UK) Limited and is also a non-executive director of ETFS Equity Securities Limited, ETFS Metal Securities Limited, Gold Bullion Securities Limited, ETFS Commodity Securities Limited, ETFS Hedged Commodity Securities Limited, ETFS Hedged Metal Securities Limited, ETFS Oil Securities Limited, ETFS Foreign Exchange Limited, ETFS Industrial Metal Securities Limited and Swiss Commodity Securities Limited.