497K 1 d812680d497k.htm FORM 497K Form 497K
March 14, 2024
 
 
2024 Summary Prospectus
• iShares S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF | IVVW | CBOE BZX
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus (including amendments and supplements) and other information about the Fund, including the Fund’s statement of additional information and shareholder reports, online at https://www.blackrock.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-iShares (1-800-474-2737) or by sending an e-mail request to iSharesETFs@blackrock.com, or from your financial professional. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated March 7, 2024, as amended and supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into (legally made a part of) this Summary Prospectus. Information on the Fund’s net asset value, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads can be found at www.iShares.com.

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iSHARES® S&P 500 BUYWRITE ETF
Ticker: IVVWStock Exchange: Cboe BZX
Investment Objective
The iShares S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the investment results of an index that reflects a strategy of holding the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF while writing (selling) one-month call options to generate income.
Fees and Expenses
The following table describes the fees and expenses that you will incur if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. The investment advisory agreement between iShares Trust (the Trust) and BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) (the Investment Advisory Agreement) provides that BFA will pay all operating expenses of the Fund, except: (i) the management fees, (ii) interest expenses, (iii) taxes, (iv) expenses incurred with respect to the acquisition and disposition of portfolio securities and the execution of portfolio transactions, including brokerage commissions, (v) distribution fees or expenses, and (vi) litigation expenses and any extraordinary expenses. The Fund may incur Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses reflect the Fund's pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the Fund as a result of investing in other investment companies. The impact of Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses is included in the total returns of the Fund. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the calculation of the ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights section of the Fund's prospectus (the Prospectus).
You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(ongoing expenses that you pay each year as a
percentage of the value of your investments)1
Management
Fees
Distribution and
Service (12b-1)
Fees
Other
Expenses2,3
Acquired Fund Fees
and Expenses3
Total Annual
Fund
Operating
Expenses
0.22%
None
0.00%
0.03%
0.25%

1
Operating expenses paid by BFA under the Investment Advisory Agreement exclude Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any.
2
The amount rounded to 0.00%.
3
Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example. This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of owning shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment
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has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
 
 
$26
$80
 
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Portfolio Turnover. The Fund or the Underlying Fund may pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or turns over its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate for the Fund or the Underlying Fund may indicate higher transaction costs and may cause the Fund or the Underlying Fund to incur increased expenses. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example(except costs to the Underlying Fund included as part of acquired fund fees and expenses), affect the Fund’s performance. Because the Fund is new, there is no reportable turnover.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Cboe S&P 500 Enhanced 1% OTM BuyWrite Index (the Underlying Index). The Underlying Index is designed to measure the performance of a strategy of holding the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (the Underlying Fund) while writing (selling) one-month call options primarily on the S&P 500 Index (the Option Index) to generate income. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing a substantial portion of its assets in the Underlying Fund and options on the Option Index. A strategy of holding a stock or basket of stocks and selling call options that reference the stock or basket of stocks is commonly known as a covered call or buy-write strategy. The Underlying Index is a product of Cboe Global Indices, LLC or its affiliates (the Index Provider or CGI) and S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or its affiliates (SPDJI), the index provider for the Underlying Fund.
The Underlying Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Option Index, which measures the performance of the large-capitalization sector of the U.S. equity market, as determined by SPDJI. The securities in the Option Index represent a broad range of industries and are weighted based on the float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares.
The Underlying Index uses European-style call options, which can be exercised only on their expiration date. The options trade on national securities exchanges. In writing a call option, the Fund receives a premium, and the purchaser of the option has the right to buy the value of the Option Index at the option’s strike price at expiration. However, the Fund does not expect to settle the outstanding option positions; generally, it purchases offsetting call options on the roll date (as defined below) as necessary to close out the open call position(s). Although the Fund receives option premiums, it does not participate in any market gains of the Underlying Fund that exceed the equivalent strike price of the option on the Option Index. The Fund fully participates in any declines in the value of the Underlying Fund.
The Fund seeks to write call options equal to the full notional amount of shares of the Underlying Fund. In other words, the Fund aims for its short option position in the Option Index to be fully offset, or covered, by the long position that the Fund holds in shares of the Underlying Fund. At times, however, there may be a notional mismatch due to differences between the Underlying Fund and the Option Index with respect to pricing, tracking error, dividends, and other factors. In addition, the Fund may opt not to write any options in certain
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circumstances, primarily if the option is far out of the money (i.e., the strike price exceeds the price of the Option Index) and would generate minimal premium income.
Each call option used in the Underlying Index has a strike price closest to 101% of the closing value of the Option Index one day prior to the roll date. The roll date is the day that open call option positions are closed out by purchasing the offsetting call option positions and subsequently writing new call options that expire the following month. The roll date is the business day preceding the expiration date of the options in the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is rebalanced monthly at the close of trading on the roll date.
If, on the day prior to the roll date, the premium that an option writer would hypothetically receive on the new 101% call option is less than five basis points of the closing value of the Option Index on that day, the Underlying Index will instead select the call option with the strike price closest to 100% of the closing value of the Option Index. Selecting an option with a strike price closest to 100% (rather than 101%) in these circumstances is designed to avoid writing an option whose potential trading costs would exceed the option’s premium.
The Fund may write options on different dates than the Underlying Index’s roll date and may use strike prices, contract sizes, or maturity dates that are different than those for the options used in the Underlying Index. In addition, the Fund may write options that are not on the Option Index but that have investment and fundamental
characteristics, in the aggregate, similar to the options used in the Underlying Index.
The Fund makes monthly distributions consisting of the option premium received and any dividends received from the Underlying Fund, subject to a cap of 2% of the Fund’s NAV per month. The Fund is likely to distribute an amount greater than its earnings and profits, resulting in a return of capital.
As of December 20, 2023, a significant portion of the Underlying Index is represented, through its holdings in the Underlying Fund, by securities of companies in the information technology sector.
BFA uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to beat the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.
Indexing may eliminate the chance that the Fund will substantially outperform the Underlying Index but also may reduce some of the risks of active management, such as poor security selection. Indexing seeks to achieve lower costs and better after-tax performance by aiming to keep portfolio turnover low in comparison to actively managed investment companies.
BFA uses a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage the Fund and the Underlying Fund. Representative sampling is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to that of an applicable underlying index. The securitiesor other instruments selected are expected to
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have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market value and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of an applicable underlying index. The Fund and the Underlying Fund may not hold all of the securitiesor other instruments in the applicable Underlying Index and may hold certain securities or other instruments that are not included in the applicable Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index is provided by the Index Provider and SPDJI and isindependent of the Fund and BFA. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securitiesand other instruments in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
Industry Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.
Summary of Principal Risks
As with any investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the Fund's performance could trail that of other investments. The Fund is subject to certain risks, including the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund's
net asset value per share (NAV), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective. Certain key risks are prioritized below (with others following in alphabetical order), but the relative significance of any risk is difficult to predict and may change over time. You should review each risk factor carefully.
Covered Call Option Risk. The Fund seeks to tracks the performance of the Underlying Index in part by writing covered call options on the Option Index in return for the receipt of premiums. In so doing, the Fund gives up the opportunity to benefit from potential increases in the value of the Option Index above the exercise price of the options. The Fund also continues to bear the risk of declines in the value of the Underlying Fund, which is closely correlated to the value of the Option Index. The premiums received from the options may not be sufficient to offset any losses sustained from the volatility of the Option Index and the Underlying Fund over time. In addition, the Fund’s ability to sell shares of the Underlying Fund is limited while the option is in effect unless the Fund extinguishes the option position through the purchase of an offsetting identical option prior to the expiration of the written option.
The covered call strategy may be subject to imperfect matching or price correlation between the written options on the Option Index and the Underlying Fund, which could reduce the Fund’s returns. Exchanges may suspend the trading of options (for example, due to volatile markets or if trading in other index-related instruments is halted). If trading is suspended, the Fund may be unable to write or purchase options at times that may be desirable or advantageous to the Fund to do so. If
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the Fund is unable to extinguish the option position before exercise, the Fund may be required to sell shares of the Underlying Fund, which may result in increased transaction costs, tracking error, over- or under-investment, and potentially the realization of capital gains. Further, this could lead to selling the corresponding options at a less favorable price than the Fund might have received had the options been extinguished.
The Fund uses options that are struck once per month, and the timing of changes in the price of the Underlying Fund and the Option Index may affect the Fund’s performance. For example, if the Underlying Fund or the Option Index experiences a drop in price followed by a quick rebound, the Fund may be unable to fully participate in the rebound if the rebound occurs immediately after the Fund’s roll date. In addition, if trading is suspended, the Fund may be unable to purchase an offsetting option for purposes of closing out an existing written option at the originally scheduled time and date.
The options written by the Fund are not expected to be treated as covered as defined under FINRA Rule 2360, in part due to the nature of the underlier (i.e., the Option Index). Instead, the Fund is expected to post margin with a clearing broker to satisfy regulatory margin requirements with respect to the written options. The Fund is subject to the risk that the clearing broker could default on its obligation to return the margin posted in connection with the options written by the Fund. In the event of such a default, the Fund could experience lengthy delays in recovering its assets or obtain no recovery at all, and the value of an investment in Fund shares would likely decrease.
Risk of Investing in the U.S. Certain changes in the U.S. economy, such as when the U.S. economy weakens or when its financial markets decline, may have an adverse effect on the securities to which the Fund or the Underlying Fund has exposure.
Large-Capitalization Companies Risk. Large-capitalization companies may be less able than smaller capitalization companies to adapt to changing market conditions. Large-capitalization companies may be more mature and subject to more limited growth potential compared with smaller capitalization companies. During different market cycles, the performance of large-capitalization companies has trailed the overall performance of the broader securities markets.
Market Risk. The Fundand the Underlying Fund could lose money over short periods due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during more prolonged market downturns. Local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, public health issues, recessions, the prospect or occurrence of a sovereign default or other financial crisis, or other events could have a significant impact on the Fund, the Underlying Fund and their investments and could result in increased premiums or discounts to the Fund’sor Underlying Fund's NAV.
Index-Related Risk. There is no guarantee that the Fund’s investment results will have a high degree of correlation to those of the Underlying Index or that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Market disruptions and regulatory restrictions could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s ability to adjust its exposure to the required levels in order to track the
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Underlying Index. Errors in index data, index computations or the construction of the Underlying Index in accordance with its methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders. Unusual market conditions or other unforeseen circumstances (such as natural disasters, political unrest or war) may impact the Index Provider or a third-party data provider, and could cause the Index Provider to postpone a scheduled rebalance. This could cause the Underlying Index to vary from its normal or expected composition.
Asset Class Risk. Securities and other assets in the Fund's or the Underlying Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to the general financial markets, a particular financial market or other asset classes.
Assets Under Management (AUM) Risk. From time to time, an Authorized Participant (as defined in the Creations and Redemptions section of the Prospectus), a third-party investor, the Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of the Fund’s adviser, or a fund may invest in the Fund and hold its investment for a specific period of time to allow the Fund to achieve size or scale. Therecan be no assurance that any such entity would not redeem its investment or that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels, which could negatively impact the Fund.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only an Authorized Participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund, and none of those Authorized Participants is obligated to engage in creation and/or
redemption transactions. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Authorized Participants on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that Authorized Participants exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other Authorized Participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, Fund shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and possibly face trading halts or delisting.
Concentration Risk. The Fund may be susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to adverse events that affect the Fund’s investments more than the market as a whole, to the extent that the Fund's or the Underlying Fund's investments are concentrated in the securities and/or other assets of a particular issuer or issuers, country, group of countries, region, market, industry, group of industries, sector, market segment or asset class.
Cybersecurity Risk. Failures or breaches of the electronic systems of the Fund or the Underlying Fund, the Fund's or the Underlying Fund's adviser, distributor, or other service providers, market makers, Authorized Participants or the issuers of securities in which the Fund or the Underlying Fund invests have the ability to cause disruptions, negatively impact the Fund’s business operations and/or potentially result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders. While the Fund has established business continuity plans and risk management systems seeking to address system breaches or failures, there are inherent limitations in such plans and systems. Furthermore, the Fund cannot control the cybersecurity plans and systems of the Fund’s Index
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Provider and other service providers, market makers, Authorized Participants or issuers of securities in which the Fund or the Underlying Fund invests.
Derivatives Risk. The Fund uses covered calls, which are options, in seeking to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. The Fund’s use of options, like investment in other derivatives, may reduce the Fund’s returns or increase volatility. A risk of the Fund’s use of derivatives is that the fluctuations in their values may not correlate with the value of the underlying asset, the performance of the asset class to which the Fund seeks exposure or the performance of the overall securities markets. Since the Fund’s covered call options are written on the Option Index, if the increase in the price of the Option Index is significantly above the exercise price of a written option, the Fund would likely substantially underperform the Underlying Fund, which is closely correlated to the value of the Option Index. In addition, implied volatility is one of the primary inputs in options pricing. As volatility increases, the value of an option also increases (and vice versa). Changes in the level of volatility can affect the amount of premium the Fund receives from writing options, and increased volatility may increase the cost that the Fund pays to close out an open option position. In addition, the use of derivatives may expose the Fund to risks related to potential operational issues, such as documentation and settlement issues, systems failures, inadequate controls and human error. Derivatives may also involve legal risks, including insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, and legality and enforceability of a contract.
Distribution Tax Risk. The Fund currently expects to make distributions on a regular basis. While the Fund will normally pay its income as distributions, the Fund's distributions may exceed the Fund's income and gains for the Fund's taxable year. The Fund may be required to reduce its distributions if it has insufficient income. Distributions in excess of the Fund's current and accumulated earnings and profits will be treated as a return of capital. Distributions in excess of the Fund's minimum distribution requirements, but not in excess of the Fund's earnings and profits, will be taxable to Fund shareholders and will not constitute nontaxable returns of capital. A return of capital distribution generally will not be taxable but will reduce the shareholder's cost basis and will result in a higher capital gain or lower capital loss when those Fund shares on which the distribution was received are sold. Once a Fund shareholder's cost basis is reduced to zero, further distributions will be treated as capital gain, if the Fund shareholder holds shares of the Fund as capital assets. Because the Fund's distributions may consist of return of capital, the Fund may not be an appropriate investment for investors who do not want their principal investment in the Fund to decrease over time or who do not wish to receive return of capital in a given period.
Equity Securities Risk. Equity securities are subject to changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than those of other asset classes. The Underlying Index is composed of common stocks, which generally subjecttheir holders to more risks than preferred stocks and debt securities because common stockholders’ claims are subordinated
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to those of holders of preferred stocks and debt securities upon the bankruptcy of the issuer.
Indexing Investment Risk. The Fund and the Underlying Fund are not actively managed, and BFA generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets.
Infectious Illness Risk. A widespread outbreak of an infectious illness, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, may result in travel restrictions, disruption of healthcare services, prolonged quarantines, cancellations, supply chain disruptions, business closures, lower consumer demand, layoffs, ratings downgrades, defaults and other significant economic, social and political impacts. Markets may experience temporary closures, extreme volatility, severe losses, reduced liquidity and increased trading costs. Such events may adversely affect the Fund and its investments and may impact the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell securities or cause elevated tracking error and increased premiums or discounts to the Fund's NAV. Despite the development of vaccines, the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects cannot be predicted with certainty.
Information Technology Sector Risk. Information technology companies face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. They are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by the loss or impairment of those rights. Companies in the information technology sector are facing increased government and regulatory scrutiny and may be subject to adverse government or regulatory action. Companies in the software
industry may be adversely affected by, among other things, the decline or fluctuation of subscription renewal rates for their products and services and actual or perceived vulnerabilities in their products or services.
Investment in the Underlying Fund Risk. The Fund expects to invest a substantial portion of its assets in the Underlying Fund, so the Fund’s investment performance is likely to be directly related to the performance of the Underlying Fund. The Fund’s NAV will change with changes in the value of the Underlying Fund and other investments based on their market valuations. An investment in the Fund will entail more costs and expenses than a direct investment in the Underlying Fund.
As the Fund’s allocation to the Underlying Fund changes from time to time, or to the extent that the total annual fund operating expenses of the Underlying Fund change, the weighted average operating expenses borne by the Fund may increase or decrease.
Through its investment in the Underlying Fund, the Fund is exposed to Management Risk, Market Risk, and Market Trading Risk, among other risks.
Issuer Risk. The performance of the Fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which the Fund or the Underlying Fund has exposure. Changes in the financial condition or credit rating of an issuer of those securities may cause the value of the securities to decline.
Large Shareholder and Large-Scale Redemption Risk. Certain shareholders, including an Authorized Participant, a third-party investor, the Fund’s adviser or an affiliate of the
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Fund’s adviser, a market maker, or another entity, may from time to time own or manage a substantial amount of Fund shares, or may invest in the Fund and hold their investment for a limited period of time. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder or large group of shareholders would not redeem their investment. Redemptions of a large number of Fund shares could require the Fund to dispose of assets to meet the redemption requests, which can accelerate the realization of taxable income and/or capital gains and cause the Fund to make taxable distributions to its shareholders earlier than the Fund otherwise would have. In addition, under certain circumstances, non-redeeming shareholders may be treated as receiving a disproportionately large taxable distribution during or with respect to such year. In some circumstances, the Fund may hold a relatively large proportion of its assets in cash in anticipation of large redemptions, diluting its investment returns. These large redemptions may also force the Fund to sell portfolio securities when it might not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact the Fund’s NAV, increase the Fund’s brokerage costs and/or have a material effect on the market price of the Fund shares.
Management Risk. As the Fund will not fully replicate the Underlying Index, it is subject to the risk that BFA's investment strategy may not produce the intended results. The Fund is also subject to the risk that the investment strategy of the Underlying Fund may not produce the intended results.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund and the Underlying Fund face numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for their shares,
losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruptions in the creation/redemption process. ANY OF THESE FACTORS, AMONG OTHERS, MAY LEAD TO THE FUND'SAND THE UNDERLYING FUND'S SHARES TRADING AT A PREMIUM OR DISCOUNT TO NAV.
Operational Risk. The Fund and the Underlying Fund are exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s or the Underlying Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund, the Underlying Fund and BFA seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address significant operational risks.
Small Fund Risk. When the Fund’s size is small, the Fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. In addition, the Fund may face the risk of being delisted if the Fund does not meet certain conditions of the listing exchange. Any resulting liquidation of the Fund could cause the Fund to incur elevated transaction costs for the Fund and negative tax consequences for its shareholders.
Tax Risk. The tax rules and limitations that apply to the Fund will cause some or all of its income and gain to be taxable as ordinary income or at ordinary income rates, may accelerate its recognition of income and gain, and may defer its use of losses, all of which are expected to have negative tax consequences for the Fund and Fund
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investors. The Fund expects that its ownership of shares of the Underlying Fund and sale of call options on the Option Index generally will constitute straddles (offsetting positions with respect to personal property) under section 1092 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The straddle rules generally do not apply if all the straddle’s offsetting positions consist of qualified covered call options(as defined under the IRC) and the stock to be purchased under the options, and the straddle is not part of a larger straddle. Unlike certain other funds that utilize covered call strategies, the Fund does not anticipate that this exception will be available because, as a general matter, the call options it writes are not expected to be treated as qualified covered call options. The straddle rules usually will terminate the Fund’s holding periods for its shares of the Underlying Fund that become part of a straddle before the long-term capital gain holding period (more than one year) has been reached, which is expected to eliminate the Fund’s ability to recognize long-term capital gains from a sale or other disposition of such shares. The straddle rules also usually will defer recognition of realized losses and require the capitalization of certain interest expenses and carrying charges. Similarly, wash sale rules may apply to defer the recognition of loss by the Fund from the disposition of stock or securities at a loss in a case in which identical or substantially identical stock or securities (or an option to acquire such property) is or has been acquired within a prescribed period. As a result of the foregoing, an investor may be subject to significantly greater amounts of tax as a result of the investment than would apply to an investment in a fund
engaged in a different investment strategy.
Technology Sector Risk. Technology companies, including information technology companies,may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. Technology companies typically face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. They are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by the loss or impairment of those rights. Companies in the technology sector may face increased government and regulatory scrutiny and may be subject to adverse government or regulatory action.
Tracking Error Risk. The Fund may be subject to tracking error, which is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of the Underlying Index. Tracking error may occur because of differences between the securities and other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs incurred by the Fund, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in timing of the accrual or the valuation of distributions, the requirements to maintain pass-through tax treatment, portfolio transactions carried out to minimize the distribution of capital gains to shareholders, acceptance of custom baskets, changes to the Underlying Index, the effect the Fund’s transactions would have on the market for the securities in the Underlying Index or the costs to the Fund of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements, among other reasons. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. Tracking error also
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may result because the Fund incurs fees and expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. INDEX EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS (ETFs) THAT TRACK INDICES WITH SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT IN OPTIONS MAY EXPERIENCE HIGHER TRACKING ERROR THAN OTHER INDEX ETFs THAT DO NOT TRACK SUCH INDICES. BFA EXPECTS THAT THE FUND MAY EXPERIENCE HIGHER TRACKING ERROR THAN IS TYPICAL
FOR SIMILAR INDEX ETFS UNTIL THE FUND REACHES SUFFICIENT SCALE.
Performance Information
As of the date of the Prospectus, the Fund has not commenced operations and therefore has no performance information to report.
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Management
Investment Adviser. BlackRock Fund Advisors.
Portfolio Managers. Jennifer Hsui, Orlando Montalvo, Greg Savage and Paul Whitehead (the Portfolio Managers) are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund. Each Portfolio Manager supervises a portfolio management team. Ms. Hsui, Mr. Montalvo, Mr. Savage and Mr. Whitehead have been Portfolio Managers of the Fund since inception (2024).
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is an ETF. Individual shares of the Fund may only be bought and sold in the secondary market through a broker-dealer. Because ETF shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (a premium) or less than NAV (a discount). An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the bid-ask spread).
Tax Information
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable to you as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account (IRA), in which case, your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), BFA or other related companies may pay the intermediary for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, conferences, the development of technology platforms and reporting systems or other services related to the sale or promotion of the Fund. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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