ISHARES IV PLC ISH MSCI EM IMI USD-DIS ETF

Objectives and Approach

The Share Class is a share class of a Fund which aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Funds’ assets, which reflects the return of the MSCI EM IMI ESG Screened Index, the Fund’s benchmark index (Index). The Share Class, via the Fund is passively managed, and aims to invest in equity securities (e.g. shares) that, so far as possible and practicable, that make up the Index. The Index measures the performance of a sub-set of equity securities which are part of the MSCI Emerging Markets Investable Market Index (IMI) (the “Parent Index”) which excludes companies from the Parent Index based on the index provider’s environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) exclusionary criteria. The Index excludes companies from the Parent Index which are defined by the index provider as: being associated with controversial and nuclear weapons; producing tobacco or civilian firearms; or deriving their revenues from the following activities: (i) thermal coal; (ii) tobacco; (iii) civilian firearms; or (iv) oil sand. Companies that are classified as violating United Nations Global Compact principles are also excluded from the Index. The remaining securities are then weighted by their free-float adjusted market capitalisation. Free float means that only shares available to international investors rather than all of a company’s issued shares are used in calculating the benchmark index. Free float–adjusted market capitalisation is the share price of the company multiplied by the number of shares available to international investors. Securities that are liquid means that they can be easily bought or sold in the market in normal market conditions. The Investment Manager will take into account the above ESG criteria only when selecting the securities to be held directly by the Fund. The Fund may also obtain indirect exposure (through but not limited to, financial derivative instruments (FDIs) (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets) and units in collective investment schemes) to securities considered not to satisfy these ESG criteria. The Fund uses optimising techniques to achieve a similar return to its Index. These techniques may include the strategic selection of certain securities that make up the Index or other securities which provide similar performance to certain constituent securities. These may also include the use of FDIs which may be used for direct investment purposes. The use of FDIs is expected to be limited for this Share Class. Recommendation: This Fund is suitable for medium to long term investment, though the Fund may also be suitable for shorter term exposure to the Index. Your shares will be accumulating shares (i.e. income will be included in their value).