(as
revised on |
2021 Prospectus |
• | iShares
Asia 50 ETF | AIA | NASDAQ |
Ticker: AIA | Stock Exchange: Nasdaq |
(ongoing expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investments) | ||||||
Management Fees |
Distribution
and Service (12b-1) Fees |
Other Expenses1 |
Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses | |||
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$ |
$ |
$ |
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Return Before Taxes | |||||
Return After Taxes on Distributions1 | |||||
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares1 | |||||
S&P Asia 50TM (Index returns do not reflect deductions for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
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■ | Government Control and Regulations. Governments of many Asian countries have implemented significant economic reforms in order to liberalize trade policies, |
promote foreign investment in their economies, reduce government control of the economy and develop market mechanisms. There can be no assurance these reforms will continue or that they will be effective. Despite recent reform and privatizations, significant regulation of investment and industry is still pervasive in many Asian countries and may restrict foreign ownership of domestic corporations and repatriation of assets, which may adversely affect Fund investments. | |
■ | Political and Social Risk. Governments in some Asian countries are authoritarian in nature, have been installed or removed as a result of military coups or have periodically used force to suppress civil dissent. Disparities of wealth, the pace and success of democratization, and ethnic, religious and racial disaffection may exacerbate social turmoil, violence and labor unrest in some countries. Unanticipated or sudden political or social developments may result in sudden and significant investment losses. |
■ | Expropriation Risk. Investing in certain Asian countries involves risk of loss due to expropriation, nationalization, or confiscation of assets and property or the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. |
■ | General Impact. This outbreak has resulted in travel restrictions, closed international borders, enhanced health screenings at ports of entry and elsewhere, disruption of, and delays in, healthcare service preparation and delivery, prolonged quarantines, cancellations, supply chain disruptions, lower consumer demand, temporary and permanent closures of stores, restaurants and other commercial establishments, layoffs, defaults and other significant economic impacts, as well as general concern and uncertainty. |
■ | Market Volatility. The outbreak has also resulted in extreme volatility, severe losses, and disruptions in markets which can adversely impact the Fund and its investments, including impairing hedging activity to the extent a Fund engages in such activity, as expected correlations between related markets or instruments may no longer apply. In addition, to the extent the Fund invests in short-term instruments that have negative yields, the Fund’s value may be impaired as a result. Certain |
issuers of equity securities have cancelled or announced the suspension of dividends. The outbreak has, and may continue to, negatively affect the credit ratings of some fixed-income securities and their issuers. | |
■ | Market Closures. Certain local markets have been or may be subject to closures, and there can be no assurance that trading will continue in any local markets in which the Fund may invest, when any resumption of trading will occur or, once such markets resume trading, whether they will face further closures. Any suspension of trading in markets in which the Fund invests will have an impact on the Fund and its investments and will impact the Fund’s ability to purchase or sell securities in such markets. |
■ | Operational Risk. The outbreak could also impair the information technology and other operational systems upon which the Fund’s service providers, including BFA, rely, and could otherwise disrupt the ability of employees of the Fund’s service providers to perform critical tasks relating to the Fund, for example, due to the service providers’ employees performing tasks in alternate locations than under normal operating conditions or the illness of certain employees of the Fund’s service providers. |
■ | Governmental Interventions. Governmental and quasi-governmental authorities and regulators throughout the world have responded to the outbreak and the resulting economic disruptions with a variety of fiscal and monetary policy changes, including direct capital infusions into companies and other issuers, new monetary policy tools, and lower interest rates. An unexpected or sudden reversal of these policies, or the ineffectiveness of such policies, is likely to increase market volatility, which could adversely affect the Fund’s investments. |
■ | Pre-Existing Conditions. Public health crises caused by the outbreak may exacerbate other pre-existing political, social and economic risks in certain countries or globally, which could adversely affect the Fund and its investments and could result in increased premiums or discounts to the Fund's NAV. |
■ | A lack of market liquidity and market efficiency; |
■ | Greater securities price volatility; |
■ | Exchange rate fluctuations and exchange controls; |
■ | Less availability of public information about issuers; |
■ | Limitations on foreign ownership of securities; |
■ | Imposition of withholding or other taxes; |
■ | Imposition of restrictions on the expatriation of the funds or other assets of the Fund; |
■ | Higher transaction and custody costs and delays in settlement procedures; |
■ | Difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations; |
■ | Lower levels of regulation of the securities markets; |
■ | Weaker accounting, disclosure and reporting requirements; and |
■ | Legal principles relating to corporate governance, directors’ fiduciary duties and liabilities and stockholders’ rights in markets in which the Fund invests may differ from and/or may not be as extensive or protective as those that apply in the U.S. |
iShares Asia 50 ETF | |||||||||
Year
Ended 03/31/21 |
Year
Ended 03/31/20 |
Year
Ended 03/31/19 |
Year
Ended 03/31/18 |
Year
Ended 03/31/17 | |||||
Net asset value, beginning of year | $56.05 | $61.05 | $67.20 | $52.54 | $43.58 | ||||
Net investment income(a) | 1.31 | 1.42 | 1.48 | 1.06 | 1.04 | ||||
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)(b) | 34.52 | (4.94) | (6.25) | 14.56 | 8.98 | ||||
Net increase (decrease) from investment operations | 35.83 | (3.52) | (4.77) | 15.62 | 10.02 | ||||
Distributions(c) | |||||||||
From net investment income | (0.97) | (1.48) | (1.38) | (0.96) | (1.06) | ||||
Total distributions | (0.97) | (1.48) | (1.38) | (0.96) | (1.06) | ||||
Net asset value, end of year | $90.91 | $56.05 | $61.05 | $67.20 | $52.54 | ||||
Total Return | |||||||||
Based on net asset value | 64.22% | (6.00)% | (6.94)% | 29.86% | 23.38% | ||||
Ratios to Average Net Assets | |||||||||
Total expenses | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.50% | ||||
Net investment income | 1.66% | 2.32% | 2.43% | 1.67% | 2.20% | ||||
Supplemental Data | |||||||||
Net assets, end of year (000) | $3,172,670 | $1,059,289 | $1,089,745 | $947,500 | $346,766 | ||||
Portfolio turnover rate(d) | 46% | 6% | 10% | 16% | 12% | ||||
(a) Based on average shares outstanding. | |||||||||
(b) The amounts reported for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period due to the timing of capital share transactions in relation to the fluctuating market values of the Fund’s underlying securities. | |||||||||
(c) Distributions for annual periods determined in accordance with U.S. federal income tax regulations. | |||||||||
(d) Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions. |
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