"The fund uses a fundamentally weighted-indexing strategy, as do other WisdomTree ETFs, to reduce the potential risks of investing in emerging markets through more commonly used market capitalization-weighted indexes, company officials said.

"The company's fundamentally weighted-indexing involves anchoring the initial weights of individual stocks to a measure of fundamental value to avoid the disadvantages of capitalization-weighted indexes.

"In a capitalization-weighted index, the market value of each holding is used to determine the percentage of an individual stock that should be owned in the fund.

"A flaw in this approach is that capitalization-weighted indexes tend to overvalue securities or sectors that dominate the market capitalization indexes at a given time, while under-representing undervalued securities or sectors. The Internet bubble in the late 1990s is an example of how a significant overvaluation problem can affect market-capitalization weighting.

"The PowerShares India Portfolio is designed to replicate the Indian equity markets as a whole through a proprietary index that company officials contend also is superior to a capitalization market-weighted index.

"The PowerShares index consists of a diverse group of 50 Indian stocks selected from a universe of 200 of the largest companies listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange and 200 of the biggest companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. Thanks to both of these new ETF offerings, a passage to India has never been easier."

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