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1 Global Business Intelligence, BlackRock, as of 31 May 2021.
2 Diversification does not fully protect you from market risk and does not guarantee returns or eliminate potential for loss.
3 The value of each series of securities will be affected by movements in the price of the commodity to which a particular series of securities is linked, as well as the price of commodities in general, market perception, the creditworthiness of certain Transaction Parties and liquidity of the securities in the secondary market.
4 A derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying financial asset, index or security.
5 Counterparty risk is the risk that the counterparty to a derivative could be unable or unwilling to perform its payment obligations.
6 Hedging is a risk management strategy employed to offset losses in investments.
7 Currency hedging is sometimes done as part of a fund’s main investment strategy or within share classes. Currency hedged share classes and funds use derivatives to hedge currency risk. The use of derivatives for a share class could pose a potential risk of contagion (also known as spill-over of risk and liabilities) to other share classes in that fund.
8 With leveraged products, both gains and losses can be magnified. Therefore, the risk of loss may be substantially more than a fund that does not employ leverage. Inverse products track the daily performance of a multiple of the inverse index return. If the value of the index increases, it could have a negative impact on the performance of that product.
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