Tortoise Index Solutions Announces Fourth Quarter 2016 Updates for Tortoise Real Yield IndexSM

Tortoise Index Solutions today announced upcoming additions and deletions to the Tortoise Real Yield IndexSM as part of the regular quarterly rebalancing for the fourth quarter of 2016, as follows. Following the close of trading on Dec. 8, 2016, the index will be rebalanced and as a result, the following changes will become effective.

The full constituent list can be viewed at www.tortoiseindexsolutions.com/tyld/constituents.

About Tortoise Index Solutions

Tortoise Index Solutions, LLC provides research-driven indices that can be used as a realistic basis for exchange-traded products and thought leadership in the universe of essential assets. Its indices are intended to fill a void in the market and provide benchmarks and investible asset class universes for use by investment professionals, research analysts and industry executives to analyze relative performance, as well as to provide a basis for passively managed exchange-traded products. Tortoise Index Solutions, LLC is part of the Tortoise Investments family, which had approximately $19.3 billion of assets under advisement through its family of registered advisers as of Oct. 31, 2016. For more information about Tortoise Index Solutions, LLC visit www.tortoiseindexsolutions.com or www.tortoiseinvest.com.

About Tortoise Real Yield IndexSM

The Tortoise Real Yield Index is a new differentiated index that aims to track real asset exposure anchored in current income. It provides an efficient benchmark for real yielding, tax pass-through, liquid companies that distribute substantial cash flow streams to investors by investing in REITs (real estate investment trusts), MLPs (master limited partnerships) and BDCs (business development companies). The index provides a benchmark of companies with tangible essential assets that are supportive of economic activity with no commodity futures, precious metals, TIPs (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) or foreign currency exposure.

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