ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG) Exchange: BATS

The Index is comprised of (a) long positions in USD-denominated investment grade corporate bonds issued by both U.S. and foreign domiciled companies; and (b) short positions in U.S. Treasury notes or bonds (“Treasury Securities”) of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration to the investment grade bonds. In entering these positions, the Index seeks to achieve an overall effective duration of zero. The Index is constructed and maintained by FTSE International Limited. By taking short Treasury Security positions the Index seeks to mitigate the negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates (“interest rates”) on the performance of investment grade bonds (conversely limiting the positive impact of falling interest rates). The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of investment grade bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates. The long investment grade bond positions included in the Index are designed to represent the more liquid universe of investment grade bonds offered within the United States. Currently, the bonds eligible for inclusion in the Index include all investment grade bonds that are issued by U.S. and internationally domiciled companies that: are fixed rate; have a minimum rating of Baa3/BBB- by both Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) and Standard and Poor’s Financial Services, LLC (“S&P”); have a minimum face amount outstanding of $1 billion; and have at least five and a half (5.5) years until maturity. The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced (including a reset of the interest rate hedge) on a monthly basis. Relative to a long-only investment in the same investment grade bonds, the Index should outperform in a rising interest rate environment and underperform in a falling or static interest rate environment. Performance of the Index could be particularly poor if investment grade credit deteriorates at the same time that Treasury interest rates fall. In addition, the performance of the Index, and by extension the Fund, depends on many factors beyond rising or falling interest rates, such as the perceived level of credit risk in the investment grade bond positions. These factors may be as or more important to the performance of the Index than the impact of interest rates. As such, there is no guarantee that the Index, and accordingly, the Fund, will have positive performance even in environments of sharply rising interest rates in which the short positions might be expected to mitigate the effect of such rises. The Index may be more volatile than a long-only position in the same investment grade bonds. The Index is published under the Bloomberg ticker symbol “CFIIIGHG”. The Fund invests in a combination of financial instruments that ProShare Advisors believes should track the performance of the Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in component securities (i.e., securities of the Index) and invest at least 80% of its total assets in investment grade bonds. The Fund will invest principally in the financial instruments set forth below. The Fund expects that its cash balances maintained in connection with the use of financial instruments will typically be held in money market instruments. Debt Securities — The Fund invests in debt securities, primarily investment grade bonds, that are issued by corporate issuers that are rated “investment-grade” by both Moody’s and S&P. Credit rating agencies evaluate issuers and assign ratings based on their opinions of the issuer’s ability to pay interest and principal as scheduled. The bonds invested in by the Fund may include USD-denominated bonds issued by foreign-domiciled companies that are offered for sale in the United States. Derivatives — The Fund invests in derivatives, which are financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds or funds (including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”)), interest rates or indexes. The Fund primarily invests in derivatives as a substitute for obtaining short exposure in Treasury Securities but may also do so to a limited extent to obtain investment grade bond exposure. These derivatives principally include: Futures Contracts — Standardized contracts traded on, or subject to the rules of, an exchange that call for the future delivery of a specified quantity and type of asset at a specified time and place or, alternatively, may call for cash settlement. The Fund will primarily utilize short futures contracts on Treasury Securities. ProShare Advisors follows a passive approach to investing that is designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund attempts to track the performance of the Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the types of investments that make up the Index or in financial instruments that provide similar exposure. The Fund may invest in or gain exposure to only a representative sample of the securities in the Index, to securities not contained in the Index or to other financial instruments, with the intent of obtaining exposure with aggregate characteristics similar to those of the Index, including the general credit profile of the Index. In managing the assets of the Fund, ProShare Advisors does not invest the assets of the Fund in securities or financial instruments based on ProShare Advisors’ view of the investment merit of a particular security or instrument, nor does it conduct conventional investment research or analysis or forecast market movement or trends. In seeking to match the general credit profile of the Index, ProShare Advisors will rely solely on credit ratings provided by Moody’s and S&P. To the extent the Fund is overweight in a security that is perceived by the markets to have increased credit risk, the Fund’s performance will be adversely affected. The Fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities and/or financial instruments that, in combination, provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends, direction or the financial condition of a particular investment grade bond issuer. The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries, country or region to approximately the same extent as the Index is so concentrated. As of May 31, 2018, the Index’s long exposure was concentrated in the financials and industrials industry groups. Please see “Investment Objectives, Principal Investment Strategies and Related Risks” in the Fund’s Full Prospectus for additional details.