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BMO Financial Group Announces Monthly Cash Distributions for BMO Exchange Traded Funds

TORONTO, January 19, 2011 – BMO Financial Group announced today the January 2011 cash distributions for the twenty BMO Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)* which pay monthly distributions. Unitholders of record at close of business on January 28, 2011 will receive cash distributions payable on February 7, 2011.

Details of the per unit distribution amounts are as follows:

 

BMO ETF

 

Ticker

Cash Distribution per Unit ($)

BMO Short Federal Bond Index ETF

ZFS

0.042

BMO Mid Federal Bond Index ETF

ZFM

0.043

BMO Long Federal Bond Index ETF

ZFL

0.058

BMO Short Provincial Bond Index ETF

ZPS

0.053

BMO Short Corporate Bond Index ETF

ZCS

0.057

BMO Mid Corporate Bond Index ETF

ZCM

0.065

BMO Long Corporate Bond Index ETF

ZLC

0.072

BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF

ZAG

0.055

BMO Real Return Bond Index ETF

ZRR

0.033

BMO High Yield US Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD Index ETF

ZHY

0.108

BMO Emerging Markets Bond Hedged to CAD Index ETF

ZEF

0.073

BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Banks Index ETF

ZEB

0.048

BMO Equal Weight Utilities Index ETF

ZUT

0.065

BMO Equal Weight REITs Index ETF

ZRE

0.085



Further information about BMO ETF Products can be found at www.bmo.com/etfs.

*BMO ETFs are managed and administered by BMO Asset Management Inc., an investment counsel firm and a separate legal entity from the Bank of Montreal.

 

About BMO Financial Group

Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly-diversified North American financial services organization. With total assets of $409 billion as at October 31, 2010, and more than 38,000 employees, BMO Financial Group provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

 

Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) and TSX is a trademark of Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”). These trademarks have been licensed for use by Bank of Montreal. The BMO ETFs are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P or TSX, and S&P and TSX make no representation, warranty or condition regarding the advisability of buying, selling or holding units of the BMO ETFs.

 

Media Contacts:
Martha McInnis, Toronto, martha.mcinnis@bmo.com, (416) 867-3996

Sarah Bensadoun, Montreal, sarah.bensadoun@bmo.com, (514) 877-8224

Laurie Grant, Vancouver, laurie.grant@bmo.com, (604) 665-7596