Investment Approach

The Fund is a sub-fund of BlackRock Authorised Contractual Scheme I taking the form of a co-ownership scheme. As a consequence of this, the Fund may be treated as tax transparent for the purpose of income and/or capital gains by relevant taxing jurisdictions. Each investor should take appropriate professional advice as to the tax treatment of their investment in the Fund. Investors in the Fund must be Eligible Investors as defined in the Fund’s prospectus and must have completed all relevant documentation prior to the purchase of units in the Fund. The Fund aims to provide a return on your investment (generated through an increase to the value of the assets held by the Fund and/or income received from those assets) by tracking closely the performance of the 30:70 Global Equity Sterling-Hedged Composite Index (the “Benchmark Index”) with a 30% allocation to United Kingdom (UK) equity securities (e.g. shares) and 70% allocation to overseas (non-UK) equity securities (which includes a 10% allocation to emerging market equities) with 95% of non-UK overseas developed equities currency exposure hedged back to Sterling. The Fund is passively managed and the investment adviser has limited discretion to select the Fund’s investments and in doing so may take into consideration the Benchmark Index