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