Recorded on March 20, 2017

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Authorized participant (AP): An entity, usually an institutional investor, that submits orders to the ETF for the creation and redemption of ETF creation units.
Capital gain: Positive difference between the sale price of an asset and the original purchase price.
Creation and Redemption Process: The process whereby an ETF issuer takes in and disburses baskets of assets in exchange for the issuance or removal of new ETF shares.
Currency Hedging:  Strategies designed to mitigate the impact of currency performance on investment returns.
Rebalance: An index is created by applying a certain set of selection and weighting rules at a certain frequency. WisdomTree rebalances, or re-applies its rules based selection and weighting process on an annual basis.
Underlying basket: securities held by a fund to replicate an investment strategy or index.
U.S. Treasury Bonds: a debt security issued by the United States government.