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1 Paris Agreement - is an international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015

2 US Geological Survey, 2021

3 US Geological Survey, 2021

4 Copper Development Association, Inc., “Electric Vehicles Infographic,” 2021

5 Copper Development Association, Inc., “Renewables,” 2021

6 Bloomberg, “Freeport’s Adkerson Sees Copper Scarcity Trumping Cooling Effort,” May 27, 2021

7 US Geological Survey, 2021

8 The Aluminum Association, “Aluminum use,” 2021

9 Ibid

10 US Geological Survey, 2021

11 International Zinc Association, “Zinc: A sustainable material essential for modern life,” 2015

12 US Geological Survey, 2021

13 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Electrification Futures Study: Scenarios of Electric Technology Adoption and Power Consumption for the United States,” 2018

14 National blueprint for batteries, 2021

15 European Raw Materials Alliance, 2021

16 Foreign Policy Research Institute, “Beyond Oil: Lithium-ion battery minerals and energy security,” March 3, 2021

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Commodities generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. There can be no assurance that the Fund’s investment objective will be met at any time. The commodities markets and the prices of various commodities may fluctuate widely based on a variety of factors. Because the Fund’s performance is linked to the performance of highly volatile commodities, investors should consider purchasing shares of the Fund only as part of an overall diversified portfolio and should be willing to assume the risks of potentially significant fluctuations in the value of the Fund.

The Fund employs a “passive management” – or indexing – investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund will generally seek to hold similar interests to those included in the Index and will seek exposure to many of the commodities included in the Index under the same futures rolling schedule as the Index. The Fund will also hold short-term fixed-income securities, which may be used as collateral for the Fund’s commodities futures holdings or to generate interest income and capital appreciation on the cash balances arising from its use of futures contracts (thereby providing a “total return” investment in the underlying commodities)

Through holding of futures, options and options on futures contracts, the Fund may be exposed to (i) losses from margin deposits in the case of bankruptcy of the relevant broker, and (ii) a risk that the relevant position cannot be close out when required at its fundamental value. In pursuing its investment strategy, particularly when rolling futures contracts, the Fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio of securities, resulting in a high portfolio turnover rate.

As a “non-diversified” fund, the Fund may hold a smaller number of portfolio securities than many other funds. To the extent the Fund invests in a relatively small number of issuers, a decline in the market value of a particular security held by the Fund may affect its value more than if it invested in a larger number of issuers. The value of Shares may be more volatile than the values of shares of more diversified funds.

During situations where the cost of any futures contracts for delivery on dates further in the future is higher than those for delivery closer in time, the value of the Fund holding such contracts will decrease over time unless the spot price of that contract increases by the same rate as the rate of the variation in the price of the futures contract. The rate of variation could be quite significant and last for an indeterminate period of time, reducing the value of the Fund.

Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiary are organized, respectively, could result in the inability of the Subsidiary to operate as intended and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders.

To the extent the Fund is exposed directly or indirectly to leverage (through investments in commodities futures contracts) the value of that Fund may be more volatile than if no leverage were present.

In order to qualify for the favorable U.S. federal income tax treatment accorded to a regulated investment company (“RIC”), the Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income in each taxable year from certain categories of income (“qualifying income”) and must satisfy certain asset diversification requirements. Certain of the Fund’s investments will not generate income that is qualifying income. The Fund intends to hold such commodity-related investments indirectly, through the Subsidiary. The Fund believes that income from the Subsidiary will be qualifying income because it expects that the Subsidiary will make annual distributions of its earnings and profits. However, there can be no certainty in this regard, as the Fund has not sought or received an opinion of counsel confirming that the Subsidiary’s operations and resulting distributions would produce qualifying income for the Fund. If the Fund were to fail to meet the qualifying income test or asset diversification requirements and fail to qualify as a RIC, it would be taxed in the same manner as an ordinary corporation, and distributions to its shareholders would not be deductible by the Fund in computing its taxable income.

Shares in the Trust are not FDIC insured and may lose value and have no bank guarantee.

Investor shares are bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Ordinary brokerage commissions may apply.

The Bloomberg Industrial Metals Subindex (BCOMIN) consists of 4 commodities which are weighted 2/3 by trading volume and 1/3 world production with an additional criteria of global economic significance. Weight caps are also applied to limit concentration in a particular sector (33%).

ALPS Distributors, Inc. is the distributor for the abrdn ETFs. ALPS is not affiliated with abrdn.

The abrdn Bloomberg Industrial Metals Strategy K-1 Free ETF fund is new and has limited operating history.

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LLC. Bloomberg is not affiliated with Aberdeen Standard Investments ETFs Advisors LLC, and Bloomberg does not approve, endorse, review, or recommend abrdn Bloomberg Industrial Metals K-1 Free ETF (BCIM) or abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Longer Dated Strategy K-1 Free ETF (BCD). Bloomberg does not guarantee the timeliness, accurateness, or completeness of any data or information relating to Bloomberg Industrial Metals Subindex Total ReturnSM or the Bloomberg Commodity Index 3 Month Forward Total ReturnSM .

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