RNS Number : 9651B
iShares II PLC
08 June 2023
 

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT

 

iShares II plc (the "Company")

 

iShares FTSE BRIC 50 UCITS ETF - ISIN(s): IE00B1W57M07 (the "Fund")

 

 

08th June 2023

 

The Directors of the Company wish to advise you that the name of the Fund and the description and exposure of its benchmark index will be changing with effect from on or around 22 June 2023. This change is required to be made in order to better reflect the benchmark index of the Fund which has been modified by FTSE International Limited ("FTSE").

FTSE communicated to clients through email notices late last year that the names of all their BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) indexes will be changed to remove any reference to Russia and therefore be renamed as 'BIC'. This is to reflect the updated economic exposure of all relevant indices as Russian securities were removed from all FTSE equity indices on 07 March 2022.

Following the removal of all Russian securities from its equity indices on 07 March 2022, FTSE has updated all of its BRIC indexes to reflect this. As such, the name of the benchmark index of the Fund has been updated as follows:

Existing name of benchmark index

New name of benchmark index

FTSE BRIC 50 Net of Tax Index

FTSE BIC 50 Net of Tax Index


The name of the Fund will be amended to align with the new benchmark index name:

Existing name of the Fund

New name of the Fund

iShares BRIC 50 UCITS ETF

iShares BIC 50 UCITS ETF

 

These changes will take effect from or around 22 June 2023.

An electronic copy of the full shareholder letter shall be made available shortly for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and available to download from the iShares website at https://www.ishares.com

 

 

We understand that investors may have questions in relation to this event. If you have any queries, but you do not have a usual iShares contact, you can contact iShares in your respective region on the below contact numbers and email addresses:

 

 

 

·     If located in United Kingdom or if located in elsewhere than the below, you can contact iShares at:  info@ishares.co.uk, or the helpline telephone number: +44 207 743 1500

 

 

 

·     If located in Germany, you can contact iShares at: info@iShares.de, or the helpline telephone number: +49 89 42729 5858

 

 

 

·     If located in Switzerland, you can contact iShares at: iSharesSwitzerland@BlackRock.com, or the helpline telephone number 0800 33 66 88

 

 

 

 

 

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