Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund

Ticker: DBC
Exchange: American Stock Exchange
Expense ratio: 1.5%, includes a 0.95% management fee

General Information about the Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund

Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund's returns are expected to track the performance of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index™ – Excess Return (DBLCI). The DBLCI is a rules-based index, based on six liquid futures contracts on Light, Sweet Crude Oil, Heating Oil, Gold, Aluminum, Corn, and Wheat.

Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund also will generate interest income from its holdings of cash and short-term fixed income securities.

Objective

Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund's objective is to track the DBLCI by establishing long positions in six futures contracts on the following commodities:

• Light, Sweet Crude Oil, traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX);
• Heating Oil, also traded on the NYMEX;
• Gold, traded on the COMEX (a division of the NYMEX);
• Aluminum, traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME) ;
• Corn, traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT); and
• Wheat, also traded on the CBOT.

The amount invested in each of the six commodity classes (the weighting) is pre-determined and reset annually as follows: 35% light, sweet crude oil, 20% heating oil, 12.5% aluminum, 11.25% corn, 11.25% wheat and 10% gold.

Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund’s light, sweet crude oil and heating oil contracts will be rolled monthly, while the gold, aluminum, corn and wheat contracts will be rolled annually.

Contracts are “rolled” by closing out contracts that are nearing expiration and entering into new contracts with an expiration either one month or one year in the future, as the case may be.

Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund also will generate interest income from its holdings of cash and short-term fixed income securities. Interest income will be used to offset Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking Fund's expenses.

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