WisdomTree Issuer PLC : Miscellaneous


STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

For Immediate Release                                                                               10 May, 2016

WisdomTree Issuer PLC (the "Fund")

Re: Changes to the Fund

The Directors of the Fund wish to announce the following changes to the Fund, the changes are to become effective on or about 24 May, 2016 (the "Effective Date").

Changes to the Dividend Policy in the Prospectus for the Fund:

From the Effective Date to reflect:

  1. Dividends shall be payable to shareholders in the currency of denomination of a sub-fund's distributing share class, rather than in the base currency of the relevant sub-fund as is currently provided for in the Prospectus; and
     
  2. Distributions of income in cash will be wired to the bank account designated by a shareholder in its participant agreement with the Fund or as designated in a shareholder's arrangement with a recognised clearing system designated by the Irish Revenue Commissioners.

Changes to the Dividend Declaration Frequency of Certain sub-funds of the Fund:

From the Effective Date:

  1. The supplements for WisdomTree Japan Equity UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Germany Equity UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Europe Equity UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Emerging Asia Equity Income UCITS ETF, WisdomTree UK Equity Income UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Europe Equity Income UCITS ETF and WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF will be amended to reflect that dividends will now normally be declared semi-annually in June and December of each year, rather than quarterly as is currently provided for in the supplements for these sub-funds; and
     
  2. The supplement for WisdomTree ISEQ 20® UCITS ETF will be amended to reflect that dividends will now normally be declared annually in December of each year, rather than semi-annually as is currently provided for in the supplement for this sub-fund.

Changes to the Names of Certain Indices:

From the Effective Date:

  1. In respect of WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income UCITS ETF, the sub-fund's benchmark index will be renamed the "Emerging Markets High Dividend Index"; and
     
  2. In respect of the WisdomTree Europe Equity Income UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF, WisdomTree Europe Equity UCITS ETF and WisdomTree UK Equity Income UCITS ETF, the name of the reference parent index, to which the sub-funds' benchmark indices refer, will be renamed the "WisdomTree International Equity Index".

Enquiries to;

WisdomTree Europe Ltd Ignatius Faissal

 
+44 20 3824 6024
     
Davy David Ryan +353 1 614 8933