Introduction to iShares Fixed Income ETFs

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Fixed Income ETF Market Overview

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Global ETP assets by type of exposure

Exposure as at end Jan 2012 (US$bn) AUM

%marketshare

Monthly NNA

2012 YTD NNA

2012 YTD change

AUM %

AUM

% AUMmarket share

Equity 1,155 70.0 22.6 22.6 92.1 8.7 0.2

North America – equity 611 37.0 14.6 14.6 42.2 7.4 (0.3)

Emerging markets – equity 222 13.4 6.6 6.6 27.8 14.3 0.7

Europe – equity 119 7.2 (0.1) (0.1) 8.1 7.3 (0.1)

Asia Pacific – equity 83 5.1 0.3 0.3 5.6 7.1 (0.1)

Global (ex-US) – equity 69 4.2 0.7 0.7 4.4 6.8 (0.1)

Global – equity 50 3.0 0.5 0.5 4.0 8.6 0.01

Fixed income 271 16.4 9.1 9.1 13.2 5.1 (0.5)

Commodities 195 11.8 2.1 2.1 20.8 12.0 0.4

Alternative 5 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.6 14.1 0.01

Currency 8 0.5 (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (5.6) (0.1)

Mixed 2 0.1 (0.0) (0.0) 0.01 0.4 (0.01)

ETPs listed in Israel 15 0.9 - - 0.2 1.1 (0.1)

Total 1,650.8 100.0 34.1 34.1 126.4 8.3

AUM % market share as at end Jan 2012

Developed Equity 56.5%

Emerging markets equity 13.4%

Fixed Income 16.4%

Commodities 11.8%

Others 1.8%

NNA = Net New Assets. AUM = Assets Under Management. Global ETP NNA (or flows) are approximated by combining the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia Pacific and Latin America . In 2011, global flows are re-stated with Asia Pacific flows. From January 2012, Asia Pacific flows will be reported on an one-month lag basis. Note: Data as at end January 2012 or the most recent period available. Source: BlackRock Investment Institute, Bloomberg, National Stock Exchange (NSX), Bank of Israel, Strategic Insight Simfund

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Assets 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Feb-12

ETF/ETP Assets $0.1 $0.1 $4.0 $5.9 $11.1 $21.7 $40.8 $65.9 $110.3 $173.3 $207.5 $258.0 $278.0

# ETFs/ETPs 2 2 6 17 22 31 51 122 173 295 409 607 646

Source: BlackRock and Bloomberg as of 02/29/2012

Government Bond

Government BondCorporate Bond

Emerging Debt, High Yield

Emerging Debt local,Tresuries

Corporate BondHigh Yield

Fixed Income ETFs: growing industry

Where do FI assets sit and where are they going?

Rates 33%

Credit31%

Agg16%

Inflation12%

Other4%

EM4%

Global FI ETFs AUM (%)

Source: Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg. Data as at end of February 2012. *NNA stands for net new assets

$US Mn

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Aggregate

Credit

YTD 2012 Global FI ETFs NNA

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Top Global ETFs

Source: Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock, Bloomberg. As of 29th of February 2012.

ETF name Bloomberg Region listed AUM (US$Mill)ADV (US$

Mill)

SPDR S&P 500 SPY US US 99665.9 18182.5

SPDR Gold Trust GLD US US ETPs 70298.0 2006.9

Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF VWO US US 55034.1 905.5

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund EEM US US 40914.4 2049.6

iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund EFA US US 39158.4 947.2

PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQ US US 33264.5 2932.4

iShares S&P 500 Index Fund IVV US US 28459.6 484.8

iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund TIP US US 22879.6 130.5

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF VTI US US 20755.1 165.2

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund LQD US US 19703.0 208.3

iShares DAX (DE) DAXEX GY Europe 16212.7 109.3

iShares Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund IWF US US 16029.7 131.1

iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund IWM US US 16023.6 3668.6

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF BND US US 15051.7 107.8

iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund AGG US US 14797.5 118.3

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund HYG US US 14371.7 219.7

iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index Fund XIU CN Canada 12067.3 183.9

SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF JNK US US 11983.9 184.2

iShares Russell 1000 Value Index Fund IWD US US 11937.2 100.1

SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF DIA US US 11822.6 765.1

6 fixed income ETFs within the top 20

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Fixed Income ETFs Providers

iShares represent 60% of global fixed income ETF assets

iShares 124,063

Vanguard 32,653

State Street 22,315

Powershares 5,214

ProShares 5,093

PIMCO 4,072

Wisdom Tree 2,615

Van Eck 1,808

Guggenheim 1,212

Schwab 919

Direxion 488

FlexShares 379

AdvisorShares 99

Colum bia 11

Total 200,941

Fixed Income ETF Provider AUM (US$mn) Feb 2012

Fixed Income ETF Provider AUM (US$mn) Feb 2012

iShares 32,292

db x-trackers 9,350

Lyxor Asset Managem ent 7,171

ETFlab Investm ent 2,755

Comm erzbank 2,117

Credit Suisse Asset Managem ent 1,746

Amundi ETF 1,566

EasyETF 618

State Street Global Advisors 501

Source Markets 160

UBS Global Asset Management 160

XACT Fonder 121

BBVA Asset Managem ent 89

JP Morgan Mansart Inves tm ents 76

PowerShares 76

Finans Portfoy Yonetim i 30

ThinkCapital 19

Is Inves tm ent 6

RBS 0

Total 58,852

Ranking: US Providers Ranking: European Providers

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Fixed Income ETFs benefits

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What are Fixed Income ETFs?

Fixed income ETFs share many of the features of equity ETFs, making them ideal vehicles to provide liquid, transparent exposure to the different fixed income asset classes

• Funds that are listed in an exchange andtraded like equities

• Provide exposure to multiple bondsthrough a single trade

• Potential to reduce capital gains throughthe ETF creation / redemption process

• 2 sources of liquidity: ETF liquidity andunderlying bond liquidity

• Provide price discovery of usually OTC,difficult to price assets

Exchange Traded

• Managed to track an index and providebroad or narrow exposure to the differentsegments of the fixed income market

• Optimized to efficiently replicate largeindex portfolios with less instruments inorder to minimize transaction costs

• Generally make monthly distributions toshareholders from the income generatedby the underlying bonds in the ETF

Designed to Track a Fixed Income Index

Low cost, efficient way of accessing the fixed income market

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Fixed Income ETFs: benefits

Why should I invest in fixed income ETFs?

Transparency

• Fixed Income ETFs offer transparency as underlying securities are available daily. All of the underlyingholdings are available daily on iShares.com

• Given the recent volatility and liquidity issues in the bonds markets, it is more important than ever to havefull transparency into portfolios

Liquidity• Fixed income ETFs offer intraday liquity, while most bonds trade over-the-counter.• Direct bond trading is often inaccesible due to large trading minimums.

Diversification

• Fixed income ETFs provide diversification across bonds with just one trade.• ETFs offer investors the posibility to create more diversified portfolios only with ETFs: government,

aggregate, corporate, covered, emerging, high yield, inflation, mortgage bonds.

Flexibility • Fixed income ETFs provide the flexibility to trade throughout the day with continuous price.

Duration• Fixed income ETFs offer a fix duration while single bond duration is continually decreasing as time to the

maturity decreases.

Cost

• Transaction costs in the bond market can be significant, and often difficult to identify. iShares ETFs offerclarity in terms of the costs.

• iShares fixed income ETFs tend to have lower management fees than comparable mutual funds.

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Comparing Fixed Income and Equity markets

Equities and ETFs are exchange traded

• Central execution

• Two-sided markets supported by a market maker

• Observable bid/offer spreads

• Direct measurement of transaction costs

The fixed income market is an Over The Counter (OTC) market

• Transactions are done directly between participants

• No exchange to ensure best execution

• Lack of transparency into what transaction costs are paid

• Potential for large disparities in transaction costs paid by investors

iShares ETFs bring the benefits of trading in an exchange to fixed income investors

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Comparing Equity and Bond transaction costs

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iShares fixed income ETFs bring equity-like pricing to the bond market

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iShares cost efficiency advantage: US ETFs

Sources: BlackRock, Barclays Capital, Bloomberg. 30-day average daily volume and bid/offer, as of 8/31/11.

S&P National AMT Free Municipal Bond

Index

Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index

iBoxx $ Investment

Grade Corporate

Bond Index

iBoxx $ High Yield

Corporate Bond Index

iShares Avg. Daily Volume ($MM)

$19 $134 $176 $197

UnderlyingMarket

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225

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Spreads on iShares FI ETFs versus underlying basket

Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond ex-

Financials

Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond

iShares Avg. Daily Volume ($MM) $10.8 $25.6 $22 $4.6

UnderlyingMarket

JPMorgan $ Emerging Markets Bond

$10.1

Markit iBoxx Euro High Yield Bond

Markit iBoxx £ Corporate Bond ex

- Financials

Barclays Capital Emerging Market Local

Govt Bond

$5.2

iShares cost efficiency advantage: European ETFs

Income choices in Fixed Income

Nam e Ticker Dom icilio UCITS Divisa Base Duration TIR Structure AUMs (thousands) TER Holdings

iShares M ark it iBoxx $ High Yie ld Capped Bond SHYU Irish Yes USD 4.98 7.35% (USD) Sampled 235.861 0.50% 449 US HY

iShares M ark it iBoxx Euro High Yie ld Bond IHYG Irish Yes EUR 3.46 7.03% (EUR) Sampled 1,043,364 0.50% 243 Eur HY

iShares Barclays Capital Em erging Market Local Govt Bond SEML Irish Yes USD 5.02 6.75% (USD) Sampled 229,833 0.50% 112 Emerging debt

iShares JPM organ $ Em erging M arkets Bond Fund IEMB Irish Yes USD 7.41 5.07% (USD) Sampled 1,428,447 0.45% 74 Emerging debt

iShares Barclays Capital EM Asia Local Govt Capped Bond SGEA Irish Yes USD 5.74 4.13% (USD) Sampled 9.879 0.50% 29 Asian Emerging debt

iShares M ark it iBoxx $ Corporate Bond LQDE Irish Yes USD 6.68 3.95% (USD) Sampled 1,221,659 0.20% 57 US Corporate

iShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond IEAC Irish Yes EUR 3.93 3.20% (EUR) Sampled 1289336 0.20% 1211 Euro Corporate

iShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond 1-5 SE15 Irish Yes EUR 2.65 2.78% (EUR) Sampled 123.483 0.20% 727 Euro Corporate

iShares Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Bond IEAG Irish Yes EUR 5.34 2.75% (EUR) Sampled 407.235 0.25% 1278 Euro Agg

iShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond ex-Financials EEXF Irish Yes EUR 4.05 2.64% (EUR) Sampled 1,260,639 0.20% 735 Euro Corporate

iShares M ark it iBoxx Euro Corporate Bond IBCX Irish Yes EUR 4.14 2.63% (EUR) Sampled 3,228,153 0.20% 110 Euro Corporate

iShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond ex-Financials 1-5 EEX5 Irish Yes EUR 2.56 2.14% (EUR) Sampled 322.424 0.20% 435 Euro Corporate

iShares Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond SUAG Irish Yes USD 4.66 1.99% (USD) Sampled 15.4 0.25% 158 US Agg

iShares Citigroup Global Governm ent Bond IGLO Irish Yes USD 6.66 1.43% (USD) Sampled 453.838 0.20% 615 Gov

Nam e Ticker Dom icilio UCITS Divisa Base Duration TIR Structure AUMs (thousands) TER Holdings

iShares iBoxx High Yie ld Corporate Bond Fund HYG United States USD 4.25 6.85% Physical 14,285,857 0.50% 500 US HY

iShares JP M organ USD Em erging Markets Bond Fund EMB United States USD 7.33 5.03% Physical 4,285,649 0.60% 122 Emerging debt

iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond Fund CLY United States USD 11.71 5.02% Physical 188.825 0.20% 513 US Corporate

iShares 10+ Year Governm ent/Credit Bond Fund GLJ United States USD 12.77 4.19% Physical 23.319 0.20% 285 US Agg

iShares iBoxx $ Investm ent Grade Corporate Bond Fund LQD United States USD 7.45 3.69% Physical 19,605,973 0.15% 771 US Corporate

iShares Barclays Credit Bond Fund CFT United States USD 6.33 3.22% Physical 1,147,365 0.20% 1771 US Corporate

iShares Barclays Interm ediate Credit Bond Fund CIU United States USD 4.25 2.59% Physical 4,437,350 0.20% 1800 US Corporate

iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund AGG United States USD 4.47 1.96% Physical 14,779,558 0.20% 1421 US Agg

iShares Barclays Interm ediate Governm ent/Credit Bond Fund GVI United States USD 3.84 1.45% Physical 731,103 0.20% 726 US Agg

iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Credit Bond Fund CSJ United States USD 1.85 1.33% Physical 9,160,805 0.20% 669 US Corporate

Attractive yields within fixed income ETFs

Fixed Income ETFs

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Fixed Income ETF Mechanics

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For illustrative purpose only. Source: BlackRock.

Fixed Income Indexing

� Unlike equities, Fixed Income is not traded on exchanges

� Prohibitive costs, uncertain liquidity and issue scarcity often makes perfect replication unfeasible

� Index process optimizes marginal contribution to tracking error with T-Costs

Quantitative Process Balances Tracking Error & Transaction Costs

Tracking Error

Number of issues

Transaction Costs

Optimal Portfolio

Basis Points

iShares fixed income funds aim to minimize tracking error with low possible transaction costs

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Portfolio Construction: Stratified Sampling

Benchmark is divided into subsets (cells) based upon relative risk factor parameters

Portfolios are constructed by sampling bonds from each index cell

Mortgage-Backed Securities

Issuer (GNMA, FNMA,

FHLMC)

Mortgage type(30 yr, 15 yr,

balloon)

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Vintage (year of issuance)

Credit and Asset-Backed

Securities

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Maturity / average life

Credit rating

Call/payment structure

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Cell• BBB-rated • Industrial• 7–10 years

maturity

Government Bonds

Sector/Issue type

Maturity

Call Features

For illustrative purposes only

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Understanding Fixed Income ETF Trading Behavior

There are four key drivers of premiums/discounts in fixed Income ETFs:

NAV

•Underlying bonds marked to the Bid side of OTC bond market for NAV

•ETF trades at market clearing price

ETF Supply & Demand

•Balance of exchange flows drive where ETF trades relative to underlying bond market

•Sale pressure: ETF moves closer to bid side of bond market (NAV)

•Buy pressure: ETF moves closer to offer side of bond market (potential share creation)

Cost of Share Creation

•If demand > exchange liquidity, new shares can be created

•Cost of creation ≈ underlying bond market bid/offer spread

•ETF price incorporates the marginal cost of share creation

Fixed Income Market Volatility & Liquidity

•NAV = average bid of the underlying bonds in the portfolio; does not contemplate a portfolio execution. This is an Indicative price

•In volatile/illiquid markets the difference between the average bond price and a portfolio execution may be large: Average Price ≠Price of the Average Bond

•This leads to premiums or discounts outside of average underlying market bid/offer spread

Although market makers will generally take advantage of differences between the NAV and the trading price of shares of ETFs through arbitrage opportunities, there is no guarantee that they will do so.

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Understanding Fixed Income ETF Trading Behavior

• Arbitrage activity anchors ETF pricing to underlying value

• If the ETF price moves too far above offer side of underlying portfolio, market participants can short the ETF and purchase the underlying bonds

• If the ETF price moves too far below the bid side of underlying portfolio, market participants can purchase the ETF and short the underlying bonds

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Sell Pressure Buy Pressure

Although market makers will generally take advantage of differences between the NAV and the trading price of shares of ETFs through arbitrage opportunities, there is no guarantee that they will do so.

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Taxes

** Some of the distributions made from fixed income funds can be considered Qualified Interest Income (QII), which is subject to 0% withholding and could potentially reduce the investor’s tax burden

iShares funds with the same underlying investments can have different withholding taxes depending on their domicile

Additional considerations such as transaction costs and liquidity should be taken into account as part of the decision to invest in one domicile versus another. Please consult your tax advisor for advice regarding your particular situation

US iShares fund

Offshore

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U.S. Domiciled iShares U.S. Bond

Fund

Dublin Domiciled iShares U.S. Bond

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30%

Witholding

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30%

Witholding

Tax**

0%

Witholding

Tax

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Fixed Income ETF Portfolio Uses

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AGG (iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond

Fund)

Single Bond 2

Single Bond 1

Fixed Income Mutual Fund

Core

• Seeks to provide beta

• Provides exposure to a diversified portfolio while helping reduce costs

• As an example. AGG can be used as a core U.S. fixed income market holding with individual bonds or alpha-seeking fixed income funds as satellites

Satellite

• Seeks to provide alpha

• Focus on a specific sector or asset class.

• For example, HYG can be used as a tactical allocation for investors seeking higher income from their investments

Fixed Income iShares Uses – Core - Satellite

Core – Satellite Strategy

iShares fixed income ETFs allow investors to quickly implement tactical views on certain market sectors and segments by reducingthe trading, research and operational costs associated with investing in individual securities

For illustrative purposes only

Portfolio of laddered bonds Single Bond

2

Single Bond 1

HYG (iShares iBoxx $ High Yield

Corporate Bond Fund )

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Fixed Income Strategy:

Diversify an existing portfolio of laddered bonds

Scenario:

Investor has a portfolio of 7 corporate / high yield bonds with laddered maturities ranging from 1-10 years

iShares Solution:

• Maintain laddering solution• Use HYG, LQD, CFT or CSJ as a diversifying complement

to the ladder

Number of holdings

Existing Portfolio 7

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate (HYG)

474

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate (LQD)

712

iShares Barclays Credit (CFT) 1,603

iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Credit (CSJ) 663

Source: BlackRock, as of 11/11/11. Holdings are subject to change. For illustrative purposes only.

Fixed Income iShares Uses - Diversification

iShares fixed income funds offer a cost-effective way of diversifying bond portfolios with just one trade

Target yield portfolios with iShares ETFs

• German 10yr Bunds are currently yield less than 2%, while Euro Corporates yield around 4.2%.

• In order to target an attractive yield of above 6% investors need to consider diversifying into High yield corporate bonds or Emerging Market debt

• A portfolio of around 50% High Yield Corporates , 20% Emerging Market Local Currency bonds and 30% Investment Grade corporate credit would have a weighted yield of above 6%

Portfolio A: Broad Credit Weighted YTM = 6.66%

Portfolio B: 80% EUR assets / 20% foreign assetsWeighted YTM = 6.24%

Source: BlackRock. Data as at 18 January 2012. For illustration purposes only

Global High Yield Solution through iShares

Investors can use iShares high yield bond ETFs to approximate the global high yield bond market

•A basket of two iShares high yield bond ETFs offers an investable solution to achieving global HY exposure

•85% USD and 15% EUR high yield bond ETFs will be a fairly good proxy to a global HY benchmark

•5 year correlations between an iShares ETF portfolio and global HY indices is around 97%*

iShares Global HY Solution

Global HY Benchmark

USD High Yield: 83%

EUR High Yield: 15%

Other High Yield: 2%

iShares Markit iBoxx Euro High Yield Bond: 15%

Markit iBoxx $ High Yield Capped Bond Index: 85%

Source: BlackRock, Barclays Capital. Data as at December 2011. Global HY benchmark is based on the Barclays Capital Global High Yield Index. (other include: GBP, Swiss Frank and Swedish Krona). *Correlation based on monthly data.

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Fixed Income Strategy:

Reduce portfolio duration to guard against possible rate increases in the future

Scenario:

Investor holds an intermediate bond portfolio but is concerned that interest rates will rise, leading to decreases in the value of the portfolio

iShares Solution:

• Maintain intermediate bond portfolio• Blend in SHV to lower the duration

and risk

Source: BlackRock, as of 11/11/11. For illustrative purposes only.

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45% AGG30% SHVPortfolio 2Duration: 3.23

Fixed Income iShares Uses – Duration Management

Impact of a 25 bp increase in rates

Impact of a 50 bp increase in rates

Portfolio 1 (no SHV) -1.12% -2.24%

Portfolio 2 (with SHV) -0.81% -1.62%

Difference 0.31% 0.62%

iShares fixed income funds can help manage duration quickly and in a cost effective manner

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CorporatesiShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate BondiShares Barclays Capital Euro Corporate Bond ex-FinancialsiShares Barclays Credit Bond FundiShares Markit iBoxx Euro Corporate BondiShares Markit iBoxx $ Corporate BondiShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund

High YieldiShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond FundiShares Markit iBoxx $ High Yield Capped BondiShares Markit iBoxx Euro High Yield Bond

Emerging DebtiShares Barclays Capital Emerging Market Local Govt BondiShares JPMorgan $ Emerging Markets Bond FundiShares Barclays Capital EM Asia Local Govt Capped BondiShares JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund

AggregatesiShares Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate BondiShares Barclays Aggregate Bond FundiShares Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond

GovernmentiShares Citigroup Global Government Bond

Highly demanded Fixed Income ETFs

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Disclaimer

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