EQUITY ENHANCED ACTIVE ETFs

Power up your portfolio.

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Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the amount originally invested.


BUILDING BLOCKS FOR AN ACTIVE CORE

Active low-cost asset allocation building blocks that seek to outperform their benchmarks year in, year out. We do this by capitalising on proprietary stock insights to deliver consistent, repeatable alpha whilst limiting tracking error at the core of your portfolio.1

WE DO IT DIFFERENTLY

We combine the passion, creativity and expertise of our investment team with the power of cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning. We scour traditional and alternative data sets to uncover the insights that drive future returns.

Our innovative process gives us access to hundreds of real-time insights across a vast universe of securities. We do this faster and with more granularity than traditional investment methods, to seek differentiated alpha generation at scale.

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5 EXPOSURES

Each ETF is powered by the insight, ingenuity and innovation from our 37+ years' tried and tested systematic team, backed by the global leaders in ETFs.²

DISCOVER MORE ABOUT EQUITY ENHANCED ETFs

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Cost-effective alpha at the core

Equity Enhanced ETFs retain the value of active selection within a cost-effective and transparent ETF wrapper.

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Efficient risk-taking

We seek to deliver the most effective use of risk budget by taking hundreds of small, evidence-based positions to minimise unwanted risks and achieve high information ratios.

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Scalable, repeatable

Our investment process blends human ingenuity with big data and AI to interpret real-time data across a broad investment universe, delivering a dependable, scalable and robust process.

BRINGING THE “BEST OF BOTH WORLDS”

Our innovative process harnesses proprietary cutting-edge technology to analyse hundreds of real time insights across 800+ data signals. We assess fundamentals, sentiment, macro, and ESG characteristics of 15,000+ securities daily, in greater detail than traditional methods, to generate differentiated alpha.

Unlike others, we combine our team's passion and expertise with technologies like AI and machine learning. With 37+ years of systematic investing experience, we believe human expertise remains our competitive edge.3

We’re proud of our unique process that integrates fundamental inputs with data science to amplify human ingenuity, bringing the “best of both worlds”.

Read the product brief to find out more about our investment process.

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WHY iSHARES FOR ACTIVE ETFs

The iShares Equity Enhanced Active ETF range brings investors a powerful combination of BlackRock’s active management capabilities through our BlackRock Systematic team (BSYS) with the breadth and scale of the global leader in ETFs.

DEEP EXPERTISE

The BlackRock Systematic team manages US$222 billion in AUM, backed by a team of 220+ dedicated professionals with 37+ years of investing experience.2

iShares, the leader in the ETF marketplace for more than two decades, used by over 43 million investors around the world, with more 4 and 5 star ETFs than any of our competitors.*

VAST SCALE

The BlackRock Systematic team analyses 15,000+ global equities daily with 45+ global developed and emerging markets covered.

Benefit from the breadth and scale of iShares, the world’s largest ETF provider with over 1,400 ETFs and over US$3.3trn assets under management.2

FUND CHARACTERISTICS

1Source: These targets are the investment manager’s internal guidelines only to achieve the fund’s investment objectives and policies as stated in the prospectus. There is no guarantee that these targets will be met.

2Source: BlackRock Global Business Intelligence as of 31 March 2024. Based on AUM, 31 March 2024, Morningstar.

3Source: BlackRock Global Business Intelligence as of 31 March 2024.

*As recognised by Morningstar.