iShares IV Plc Edge MSCI USA Value Factor UCITS ETF (IUVF)

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 Fund’s assets, which reflects the return of the MSCI USA Enhanced Value Index, the Fund’s benchmark index (“Benchmark Index”). The Share Class, via the Fund, aims to invest in the equity securities (e.g. shares) that, so far as possible and practicable, make up the Benchmark Index. The Benchmark Index aims to reflect the performance characteristics of a subset of equity securities within the MSCI USA Index (“Parent Index”) which are selected for their good value. The constituents of the Benchmark Index are selected from the Parent Index based on three main equally weighted indicators of whether equity securities of a company provide good value: comparing the price of an equity to estimated future earnings of the company (based on a consensus of analysts’ views published by an industry recognised third party source); the price of an equity security relative to the book value (i.e. the value of shareholder equity on the balance sheet) of the company; and enterprise value (a measure of a company’s value, incorporating debt and equity) of a company relative to its operating cash flow (i.e. a measure of the amount of cash generated by a company’s normal business operations), save that enterprise value is not used as an indicator of good value for financial sector companies due to their capital structure. The Benchmark Index incorporates constraints on sector weights to limit significant deviations from the Parent Index. The Parent Index measures the performance of large and mid-capitalisation companies in the USA. Companies are included in the Parent Index based on the proportion of their shares in issue that are available for purchase by international investors. The investment manager may use financial derivative instruments (FDIs) (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets) to help achieve the Fund’s investment objectives. FDIs may be used for direct investment purposes.