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Empire Company Limited is engaged in the business of food retailing and related real estate. The Company's segments include Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The Food Retailing segment consists of its subsidiary, Sobeys Inc., which owns, affiliates or franchises over 1,500 stores in approximately 10 provinces under retail banners that include Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawton's Drug Stores, as well as more than 350 retail fuel locations. The Company's Investments and Other Operations segment includes equity accounted interest in Crombie REIT, which is an open-ended real estate investment trust owning a portfolio of over 260 retail and office properties across Canada, and equity accounted interests in Genstar Development Partnership, Genstar Development Partnership II, GDC Investments 4, L.P., GDC Investments 6, L.P., GDC Investments 7, L.P., GDC Investments 8, L.P. and The Fraipont Partnership (collectively, Genstar).

PowerShares Financial Preferred Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund. The Fund is based on the Wells Fargo Hybrid and Preferred Financial Index (WHPSF Financial Index) (the Index). The Index tracks the performance of the United States-listed securities issued by financial institutions. The Index is rebalanced monthly. The Fund normally invests at least 90% of its total assets in preferred securities that consists of the Index. The Fund may contain securities in the financial and insurance sectors. The Fund's investment advisor is Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC.

Provident Energy Ltd. (PEL) owns and operates a natural gas liquids (NGL) midstream services and marketing business. The Company's midstream facilities are located in Western Canada and in the NGL markets in Eastern Canada and the United States. The business of PEL is to manage and administer the operating activities associated with the natural gas liquids midstream processing and marketing business held by Provident. Provident Midstream Holdings LP (PMHLP) directly and indirectly holds interests in the subsidiaries of PEL, including Provident Midstream LP (PMLP) and Provident Midstream Inc. (PMI). PMLP is a limited partnership registered in the Province of Alberta. PMHLP and PMI are the limited partners of PMLP with a 99.9% total interest in the partnership. In October 2011, the Company acquired 66% in Three Star Trucking Ltd. In April 2012, Pembina Pipeline Corporation acquired the Company.