BlackRock iShares Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund

The Fund aims to achieve a total return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income, which reflects the return of the J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Bond Index Global Diversified Custom Defaults Index, the Fund’s benchmark index (the “Index”). The Fund invests predominantly in the fixed income (FI) securities (such as bonds) that make up the Index. The Index comprises USD denominated fixed and floating rate income securities issued by emerging market sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities. Quasi-sovereign entities must be 100% guaranteed or 100% owned by the relevant sovereign entity. At the time of purchase, the FI securities may be investment grade or below investment grade (i.e. meet a specified level of credit worthiness) or are unrated. Below investment grade FI securities may constitute a significant portion of the Index. The Fund uses optimising techniques to achieve a similar return to its Index. These may include the strategic selection of certain securities that make up the Index and may also include the use of financial derivative instruments (FDIs) (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets). FDIs may be used for efficient portfolio management (i.e to reduce risk within the Fund’s portfolio, reduce investment costs and generate additional income) or to provide protection against exchange rate risk. Where the Fund invests in assets denominated in a currency other than US Dollars, it will use FDIs in order to reduce as far as practicable the effect of fluctuations in the exchange rate between that other currency and US Dollars, the base currency of the Fund. The Fund is passively managed. The investment manager has limited discretion to select the Fund’s investments and in doing so will take into consideration the Index. The Fund may also engage in short-term secured lending of its investments to certain eligible third parties. This is used as a means of generating additional income and to off-set the costs of the Fund. The price of fixed income securities may be affected by changing interest rates which in turn may affect the value of your investment. Fixed income securities prices move inversely to interest rates. Therefore, the market value of fixed income securities may decrease as interest rates increase. The credit rating of an issuing entity will generally affect the yield that can be earned on fixed income securities; the better the credit rating the smaller the yield. The return on your investment in the Fund is directly related to the value of the underlying assets of the Fund, less costs (see “What are the costs?” below). The relationship between the return on your investment, how it is impacted and the period for which you hold your investment is considered below (see “How long should I hold it and can I take my money out early?”). The depositary of the Fund is J.P. Morgan SE – Dublin Branch. Further information about the Fund can be obtained from the latest annual report and half-yearly reports of the BlackRock Fixed Income Dublin Funds plc. These documents are available free of charge in English and certain other languages. These can be found, along with other (practical) information, including prices of units, on the BlackRock website at: www.blackrock.com or the iShares website at: www.ishares.com or by calling the International Investor Servicing team on +353 1612 3394. Your shares will be accumulating shares (i.e. dividend income will be included in their value). The Fund’s base currency is US Dollar. Shares for this class are bought and sold in Singapore Dollar. The performance of your shares may be affected by this currency difference. You can buy and sell your shares daily. The minimum initial investment for this share class is SGD 150,000.