Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC announced that it expects to deliver zero long-term capital gains distributions across 120 of 123 equity and fixed-income ETFs for 2012. The company announced estimated distribution is to be range between from $0.13 to $0.16 for PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - PowerShares S&P 500 BuyWrite Portfolio for the year 2012. The ex-date for the 2012 capital gains distributions is anticipated to be December 24, 2012.

The record date is anticipated to be December 27, 2012, and the pay date is anticipated to be December 31, 2012.