MARKET VECTORS MSCI INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ETF
Ticker: QXUS
Principal U.S. Listing Exchange: NYSE Arca, Inc.
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
JANUARY 21, 2014
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Before you invest, you may want to review the Funds prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Funds prospectus and other information about the Fund online at http:/ /www.vaneck.com/ library/etfs/. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 888.MKT.VCTR, or by sending an
email request to info@vaneck.com. The Funds prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated January 21, 2014, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus.
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
Market Vectors MSCI International Quality ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MSCI ACWI ex USA Quality Index (the Index).
FUND FEES AND EXPENSES
The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (Shares).
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) |
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None |
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
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Management Fee |
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0.45 |
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Other Expenses(a) |
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0.24 |
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses(b) |
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0.69 |
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Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursement(b) |
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(0.24 |
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement(b) |
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0.45 |
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Other Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. |
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Van Eck Associates Corporation (the Adviser) has agreed to waive fees and/or pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, interest expense, offering costs, trading expenses, taxes and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding 0.45% of the Funds average daily net assets per year until at least February 1, 2015. During such time, the expense limitation is expected to continue until the Funds Board of Trustees acts to discontinue all or a portion of such expense limitation. |
EXPENSE EXAMPLE
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example does not take into account brokerage commissions that you pay when purchasing or selling Shares of the Fund.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% annual return and that the Funds operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
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PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
The Fund will pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or turns over its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund
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Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, may affect the Funds performance. Because the Fund is newly organized, no portfolio turnover figures are available. PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Funds benchmark index. The Index is a rules-based, modified capitalization weighted (i.e., the components are weighted by market capitalization weight in the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index (the Parent Index) multiplied by their composite quality scores, the calculations
for which are described below) float adjusted index, which includes large and mid-cap stocks across 42 countries. The Index aims to capture the performance of quality growth stocks by identifying stocks with high quality scores based on three main fundamental variables: high return on equity, stable year-over-year earnings growth and low financial
leverage. A composite quality score for each Index security is calculated based on the scores for these three variables. As of September 30, 2013, the Index consisted of companies in 42 countries as follows: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the UK. The components of the Index, as well as the countries included, may change over time. As of September 30, 2013, the Index included 397 securities of companies with a market capitalization range of between approximately
$297.4 million and $193.1 billion and a weighted average market capitalization of $50.5 billion. These amounts are subject to change. The Funds 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and may be changed without shareholder approval upon 60 days prior written notice to shareholders. The Fund, using a passive or indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Index. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Funds performance before fees and expenses and that of the Index will be 95% or
better. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. The Fund may concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries. The degree to which certain sectors are represented in the Index will change over time. PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND Investors in the Fund should be willing to accept a high degree of volatility in the price of the Funds Shares and the possibility of significant losses. An investment in the Fund involves a substantial degree of risk. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit with a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any
other government agency. Therefore, you should consider carefully the following risks before investing in the Fund. Risk of Investing in Emerging Market Issuers. Investments in securities of emerging market issuers are exposed to a number of risks that may make these investments volatile in price or difficult to trade. Political risks may include unstable governments, nationalization, restrictions on foreign ownership, laws that prevent investors from getting their
money out of a country and legal systems that do not protect property rights as well as the laws of the United States. Market risks may include economies that concentrate in only a few industries, securities issues that are held by only a few investors, liquidity issues and limited trading capacity in local exchanges and the possibility that markets or
issues may be manipulated by foreign nationals who have inside information. Risk of Investing in Foreign Securities. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. These additional risks include greater market volatility, the availability of less reliable financial information, higher transactional and custody costs, taxation by foreign governments, decreased
market liquidity and political instability. Because many foreign securities markets may be limited in size, the prices of securities that trade in such markets may be influenced by large traders. Certain foreign markets that have historically been considered relatively stable may become volatile in response to changed conditions or new developments.
Increased interconnectivity of world economies and financial markets increases the possibility that adverse developments and conditions in one country or region will affect the stability of economies and financial markets in other countries or regions. Foreign issuers are often subject to less stringent requirements regarding accounting, auditing, financial
reporting and record keeping than are U.S. issuers, and therefore, not all material information may be available or reliable. Securities exchanges or foreign governments may adopt rules or regulations that may negatively impact the Funds ability to invest in foreign securities or may prevent the Fund from repatriating its investments. The Fund may invest
in depositary receipts which involve similar risks to those associated with investments in foreign securities. In addition, the Fund may not receive shareholder communications or be permitted to vote the securities that it holds, as the issuers may be under no legal obligation to distribute shareholder communications. Special Risk Considerations of Investing in European Issuers. Because as currently constituted securities issued by European issuers represent a significant portion of the Index, the Fund will be subject to the risk of investing in such issuers. Investment in securities of issuers in Europe involves risks and special considerations not typically associated
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securities markets. The Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (the EU) requires member countries to comply with restrictions on inflation rates, deficits, interest rates, debt levels and fiscal and monetary controls, each of which may significantly affect every country in Europe. Decreasing imports or exports, changes in governmental or
EU regulations on trade, changes in the exchange rate of the euro, the default or threat of default by an EU member country on its sovereign debt, and/or an economic recession in an EU member country may have a significant adverse effect on the economies of EU member countries and on major trading partners outside Europe. The European
financial markets have recently experienced volatility and have been adversely affected by concerns about economic downturns, credit rating downgrades, rising government debt levels and possible default on or restructuring of government debt in several European countries, including Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. These events have adversely
affected the value and exchange rate of the euro and may continue to significantly affect the economies of every country in Europe, including EU member countries that do not use the euro and non-EU member countries. Use of Quality Factors Risk. Quality is a measure of certain historical variables used by MSCI Inc. (MSCI or the Index Provider) and is not intended to imply a judgment about the future performance any Index constituent or the Index as a whole. Although companies included in the Index are deemed by the Index Provider to be quality companies,
there is no guarantee that the past performance of these companies will continue. They may experience lower than expected or negative returns. Risk of Investing in Depositary Receipts. Depositary receipts in which the Fund may invest are receipts listed on U.S. exchanges issued by banks or trust companies that entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Investments in depositary receipts may be less liquid than the underlying shares
in their primary trading market and, if not included in the Index, may negatively affect the Funds ability to replicate the performance of the Index. Risk of Investing in Medium-Capitalization Companies. Medium-capitalization companies may be more volatile and more likely than large-capitalization companies to have narrower product lines, fewer financial resources, less management depth and experience and less competitive strength. Returns on investments in securities of medium- capitalization
companies could trail the returns on investments in securities of large-capitalization companies. Equity Securities Risk. The value of the equity securities held by the Fund may fall due to general market and economic conditions, perceptions regarding the markets in which the issuers of securities held by the Fund participate, or factors relating to specific issuers in which the Fund invests. Equity securities are subordinated to preferred securities and
debt in a companys capital structure with respect to priority in right to a share of corporate income, and therefore will be subject to greater dividend risk than preferred securities or debt instruments. In addition, while broad market measures of equity securities have historically generated higher average returns than fixed income securities, equity
securities have also experienced significantly more volatility in those returns. Market Risk. The prices of the securities in the Fund are subject to the risks associated with investing in the securities market, including general economic conditions and sudden and unpredictable drops in value. An investment in the Fund may lose money. Index Tracking Risk. The Funds return may not match the return of the Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index and incurs costs associated with buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Funds securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition
of the Index. Because the Fund bears the costs and risks associated with buying and selling securities while such costs and risks are not factored into the return of the Index, the Funds return may deviate significantly from the return of the Index. In addition, the Fund may not be able to invest in certain securities included in the Index, or invest in
them in the exact proportions they represent of the Index, due to legal restrictions or limitations imposed by the governments of certain countries or a lack of liquidity on stock exchanges in which such securities trade. The Fund is expected to value certain of its investments based on fair value prices. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on
fair value prices and the value of the Index is based on securities closing prices on local foreign markets (i.e., the value of the Index is not based on fair value prices), the Funds ability to track the Index may be adversely affected. Replication Management Risk. An investment in the Fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any fund of equity securities traded on an exchange, such as market fluctuations caused by such factors as economic and political developments, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in security prices. However, because the Fund is not
actively managed, unless a specific security is removed from the Index, the Fund generally would not sell a security because the securitys issuer was in financial trouble. Therefore, the Funds performance could be lower than funds that may actively shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or to lessen the impact of a
market decline or a decline in the value of one or more issuers. Premium/Discount Risk. Disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for Shares may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at
a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses. marketvectorsetfs.com
Non-Diversified Risk. The Fund is classified as a non-diversified investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act). Therefore, the Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers or may invest a larger proportion of its assets in a single issuer. As a result, the gains
and losses on a single investment may have a greater impact on the Funds NAV and may make the Fund more volatile than more diversified funds. Concentration Risk. The Funds assets may be concentrated in a particular sector or sectors or industry or group of industries to the extent the Index concentrates in a particular sector or sectors or industry or group of industries. By concentrating its assets in a particular sector or sectors or industry or group of industries, the Fund will be subject to
the risk that economic, political or other conditions that have a negative effect on that sector or industry will negatively impact the Fund to a greater extent than if the Funds assets were invested in a wider variety of sectors or industries. PERFORMANCE The Fund has not yet commenced operations and therefore does not have a performance history. Once available, the Funds performance information will be accessible on the Funds website at www.marketvectorsetfs.com. PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Investment Adviser. Van Eck Associates Corporation. Portfolio Managers. The following individuals are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds portfolio:
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Title with Adviser
Date Began Managing the Fund
Hao-Hung (Peter) Liao
Portfolio Manager
January 2014
George Cao
Portfolio Manager
January 2014 Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only in a large specified number of Shares each called a Creation Unit, or multiples thereof. A Creation Unit consists of 100,000 Shares. Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of the Fund are listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. (NYSE Arca) and because Shares trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than or less than NAV. Tax Information The Funds distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains. (01/14)
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