iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)

The outcome-oriented ETFs space has seen exponential growth from $5bn to over $160bn in the past five years as more investors seek differentiated outcomes through the liquidity and transparency of ETFs.1 This market has also witnessed significant progress in product innovation. Today, BlackRock expands its outcome-oriented product suite with the launch of the iShares Large Cap Accelerated ETF (CBOE:TWOX) to help investors seek enhanced returns up to an approximate cap (“the cap”) as represented by the price return of the underlying ETF, the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEIVV).

BlackRock is enabling Voting Choice for more than three million U.S. retail shareholder accounts1 invested in iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) - representing about $200 billion1 of the fund’s $399 billion2 in assets under management (AUM). Two years on from the launch of Voting Choice for institutional clients, the program is now available to individual investors for the first time, increasing eligible Voting Choice assets to $2.6 trillion, or half of BlackRock’s index equity assets under management.

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