Directorate Change -ETFS Commodity Securities Ltd

ETFS Commodity Securities Limited

LEI: 21380068Q1JSIAN4FO63

2 November 2018

ETFS Commodity Securities Limited

ETFS Classic and Longer Dated Commodity Securities

ETFS Short and Leveraged Commodity Securities

Directorship Changes

ETFS Commodity Securities Limited (the "Issuer") wishes to announce that Christopher Foulds has resigned as a Non-Executive Director of the Issuer and Hilary Jones has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Issuer, in each case with effect from 2 November 2018. Hilary's biography is set out below.

The Non-Executive Directors of the Issuer are as follows:

Steven Ross

Hilary Jones

Peter Ziemba

Gregory Barton

Hilary Jones - Non-Executive Director

Ms Jones is a director of ETFS Management Company (Jersey) Limited and ETFS Holdings (Jersey) Limited. Ms Jones is also a non-executive director of the Issuer and ETFS Hedged Commodity Securities Limited, Swiss Commodity Securities Limited, ETFS Metal Securities Limited, Gold Bullion Securities Limited, ETFS Hedged Metal Securities Limited, ETFS Oil Securities Limited, ETFS Foreign Exchange Limited and ETFS Equity Securities Limited. Ms Jones worked for the Northern Bank in her native Northern Ireland for 15 years before moving to Jersey in 1993. She joined R&H Fund Services (Jersey) Limited in 1999 and was promoted to director in 2009. Between 1993 and 1999 Ms Jones worked at Lloyds Private Bank and Trust Company in the Securities team and at Barclays Private Bank and Trust Company as a relationship manager. Ms Jones has over 30 years' experience in the finance sector and has extensive experience of real estate, private equity and special purpose vehicles for corporate clients. Ms Jones acts as director for a number of companies with a private equity or real estate focus, including a London listed UK REIT. Ms Jones is also responsible for R&H Fund Services (Jersey) Limited's company secretarial department and has served on the legal and technical sub-committee of the Jersey Funds Association.

The Issuer also wishes to announce that with effect from 2 November 2018, Karen Freeman has been appointed as compliance officer of the Issuer.

Terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meaning as set out in the prospectus of the Issuer dated 22 August 2018 in relation to ETFS Short and Leveraged Commodity Securities and 26 September 2018 in relation to ETFS Classic and Longer Dated Commodity Securities.

For further information please contact:

Ciaran Hocking

R&H Fund Services (Jersey) Limited

Tel: +44 (0) 1534 825200

Fax: +44 (0) 1534 825335

E-mail address: [email protected]