iShares Interest Rate Hedged Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMBH) Exchange: NYSE ARCA

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in U.S. dollar-denominated emerging market bonds, in one or more underlying funds that principally invest in emerging market bonds and in U.S. Treasury securities (or cash equivalents). The Fund intends to invest a substantial portion of its assets in the Underlying Fund. The Fund attempts to mitigate the interest rate risk of the underlying securities and/or the Underlying Fund (as determined by BFA) primarily through the use of positions in both U.S. Treasury futures contracts and interest rate swaps (i.e., enter into a contract or contracts in which the Fund will make fixed-rate payments while receiving floating-rate payments based on a reference rate). The bonds in which the Underlying Fund invests include both investment-grade and non-investment-grade bonds and generally have at least two years until maturity at the time of investment. The Fund may also invest in other interest rate futures contracts, including but not limited to, Eurodollar and Federal Funds futures. The Fund’s futures and interest rate swap positions are not intended to mitigate credit risk or other factors influencing the price of emerging market bonds, which may have a greater impact than interest rates. The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. The Fund may also invest in other ETFs (including other iShares funds), U.S. government securities, options and swap contracts, short-term paper, cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA or its affiliates. The Fund may have a higher degree of portfolio turnover than funds that seek to replicate the performance of an index. The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund's total assets (including the value of any collateral received).