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font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">), a series of BlackRock Funds</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 5pt; position: relative; top: -3.25pt;">SM</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(the “Trust”), is to seek total return over the long term.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> Fees and Expenses of the Fund <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. Amounts in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the table are rounded to the nearest basis point, which in some cases may be </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">0.00.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">You may pay other fees, such </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">as brokerage commissions and other fees to your financial professional or your selected securities dealer, broker, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">investment adviser, service provider or industry professional (including BlackRock Advisors, LLC (</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">BlackRock</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">) and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">its affiliates) (each, a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">Financial Intermediary</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">), which are not reflected in the table and example below.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> You may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fund complex advised by BlackRock or its affiliates. More information about these and other discounts is available </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">from your Financial Intermediary and in the “Details About the Share Classes” and the “Intermediary-Defined Sales </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Charge Waiver Policies” sections on pages </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">28</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">A-1</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">, respectively, of the Fund’s prospectus and in the “Purchase of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Shares” section on page </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">II-97</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> of Part II of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.</span> <br/><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the fund complex advised by BlackRock or its affiliates. 25000 Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) 0.0525 0 0 0 0.0100 0 Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0115 0.0115 0.0115 0.0025 0.0100 0 0.0024 0.0016 0.0021 0.0164 0.0231 0.0136 -0.0005 -0.0002 0.0159 0.0231 0.0134 A contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1.00% is assessed on certain redemptions of Investor A Shares made within 18 months after purchase where no initial sales charge was paid at the time of purchase as part of an investment of $1,000,000 or more. June 30, 2028 The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Other Expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets given in the Fund’s most recent Annual Financial Statements and Additional Information, which do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. Example: <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 1pt; line-height: 0.93pt;"> </span></div> 678 1010 1365 2363 334 721 1235 2478 136 429 743 1633 You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares:  234 721 1235 2478 Portfolio Turnover: <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">113</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">% of the average value of its portfolio.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> 1.13 Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in equity instruments and related derivative instruments issued by, or tied economically to, companies located in developed markets. Investments in derivatives are counted toward the Fund’s 80% policy to the extent that they provide investment exposure to the securities included within that policy or to one or more market risk factors associated with such securities. The Fund determines that an investment is tied economically to a developed market if such investment satisfies one or more of the following conditions: 1) the issuer’s primary trading market is in a developed market; 2) the issuer is organized under the laws of, derives at least 50% of its revenue from, or has at least 50% of its assets in developed markets; 3) the investment is included in an index representative of developed markets; and 4) the investment is exposed to the economic risks and returns of developed markets. The Fund may invest in securities of issuers of any market capitalization and in securities denominated in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund intends to be market-neutral, which means that the Fund seeks to produce returns that have a low </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">correlation to the returns of the equity markets in which the Fund invests. The Fund pursues this market-neutral </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">strategy by taking both long and short positions in a variety of developed market equity instruments. The Fund expects </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to maintain long and short positions primarily through the use of swap agreements and other derivative instruments, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">such as futures, and may invest in such instruments without limitation. Although the Fund intends to maintain an </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">overall long position in its portfolio investments, the Fund generally expects to maintain significant short positions in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">equity securities and equity-related instruments. In certain circumstances, these short positions may approach or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">reach the size of the overall long position. A long position arises where the Fund holds a security in its portfolio or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">maintains a position through a derivative instrument that provides economic exposure similar to direct ownership of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the security. The Fund will have a short position where it sells a security it does not own by delivery of a borrowed </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security or has entered into a derivative instrument that provides economic exposure similar to a short sale of the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security. The Fund looks to identify overvalued, undervalued or mispriced stocks and other equity instruments through </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">proprietary ranking techniques. The Fund takes long positions primarily in securities that BlackRock has identified as </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">attractive and short positions in such securities that BlackRock has identified as overvalued or poised for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underperformance.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Under normal circumstances, the Fund anticipates it will allocate a substantial amount (approximately 40% or more — </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by BlackRock, in which case the Fund would invest at least 30%) </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">of its total assets in securities (or derivatives with similar economic characteristics) of (i) foreign government issuers, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(ii) issuers organized or located outside the United States, (iii) issuers whose securities primarily trade in a market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">located outside the United States, or (iv) issuers doing a substantial amount of business outside the United States, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which the Fund considers to be companies that derive at least 50% of their revenue or profits from business outside </span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the United States or have at least 50% of their sales or assets outside the United States. The Fund will allocate its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">assets among various regions and countries, including the United States (but in no less than three different countries). </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">For temporary defensive purposes, the Fund may deviate very substantially from the allocation described above.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund may utilize derivative instruments as a significant part of its strategy.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">When consistent with the Fund’s investment objective, the Fund’s investments may include short-term investments, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">such as cash and cash equivalents, U.S. Government and agency securities, money market funds (including funds that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may be affiliated with or sponsored or managed by BlackRock), commercial paper, certificates of deposit and other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">bank deposits and bankers’ acceptances.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Equity instruments consist of:</span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Common stock</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Depositary receipts</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Derivative securities or instruments such as futures, options, forward contracts and swaps (including, but not </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">limited to, total return swaps, some of which may be referred to as contracts for difference), the value of which is </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">based on a common stock or group of common stocks. A contract for difference offers exposure to price changes in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">an underlying security without ownership of such security, typically by providing investors the ability to trade on </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">margin.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its primary investment strategies.</span></div> Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in equity instruments and related derivative instruments issued by, or tied economically to, companies located in developed markets. Investments in derivatives are counted toward the Fund’s 80% policy to the extent that they provide investment exposure to the securities included within that policy or to one or more market risk factors associated with such securities.  The Fund determines that an investment is tied economically to a developed market if such investment satisfies one or more of the following conditions: 1) the issuer’s primary trading market is in a developed market; 2) the issuer is organized under the laws of, derives at least 50% of its revenue from, or has at least 50% of its assets in developed markets; 3) the investment is included in an index representative of developed markets; and 4) the investment is exposed to the economic risks and returns of developed markets. The Fund may invest in securities of issuers of any market capitalization and in securities denominated in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Equity Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Stock markets are volatile. The price of equity securities fluctuates based on changes in a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">company’s financial condition and overall market and economic conditions.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Foreign Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Foreign investments often involve special risks not present in U.S. investments that can </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">increase the chances that the Fund will lose money. These risks include:</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund generally holds its foreign securities and cash in foreign banks and securities depositories, which may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">be recently organized or new to the foreign custody business and may be subject to only limited or no regulatory </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">oversight.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Changes in foreign currency exchange rates can affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The economies of certain foreign markets may not compare favorably with the economy of the United States with </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">respect to such issues as growth of gross national product, reinvestment of capital, resources and balance of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">payments position.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The governments of certain countries, or the U.S. Government with respect to certain countries, may prohibit or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">impose substantial restrictions through capital controls and/or sanctions on foreign investments in the capital </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">markets or certain industries in those countries, which may prohibit or restrict the ability to own or transfer </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">currency, securities, derivatives or other assets.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Many foreign governments do not supervise and regulate stock exchanges, brokers and the sale of securities to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the same extent as does the United States and may not have laws to protect investors that are comparable to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">U.S. securities laws.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Settlement and clearance procedures in certain foreign markets may result in delays in payment for or delivery of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">securities not typically associated with settlement and clearance of U.S. investments.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund’s claims to recover foreign withholding taxes may not be successful, and if the likelihood of recovery of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">foreign withholding taxes materially decreases, due to, for example, a change in tax regulation or approach in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">foreign country, accruals in the Fund’s net asset value for such refunds may be written down partially or in full, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which will adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Derivatives Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The Fund’s use of derivatives may increase its costs, reduce the Fund’s returns and/or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">increase volatility. Derivatives involve significant risks, including:</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Leverage Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The Fund’s use of derivatives can magnify the Fund’s gains and losses. Relatively small market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">movements may result in large changes in the value of a derivatives position and can result in losses that greatly </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exceed the amount originally invested.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Market Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Some derivatives are more sensitive to interest rate changes and market price fluctuations than </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">other securities. The Fund could also suffer losses related to its derivatives positions as a result of unanticipated </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">market movements, which losses are potentially unlimited. Finally, BlackRock may not be able to predict correctly </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the direction of securities prices, interest rates and other economic factors, which could cause the Fund’s </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">derivatives positions to lose value.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Counterparty Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Derivatives are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">transaction will be unable or unwilling to fulfill its contractual obligation, and the related risks of having concentrated </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exposure to such a counterparty.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Illiquidity Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The possible lack of a liquid secondary market for derivatives and the resulting inability of the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to sell or otherwise close a derivatives position could expose the Fund to losses and could make derivatives more </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">difficult for the Fund to value accurately.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Operational Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The use of derivatives includes the risk of potential operational issues, including documentation </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issues, settlement issues, systems failures, inadequate controls and human error.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Legal Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The risk of insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of counterparty, or legality or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">enforceability of a contract.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Volatility and Correlation Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Volatility is defined as the characteristic of a security, an index or a market to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuate significantly in price within a short time period. A risk of the Fund’s use of derivatives is that the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuations in their values may not correlate with the overall securities markets.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Valuation Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Valuation for derivatives may not be readily available in the market. Valuation may be more difficult </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">in times of market turmoil since many investors and market makers may be reluctant to purchase complex </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">instruments or quote prices for them.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Hedging Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Hedges are sometimes subject to imperfect matching between the derivative and the underlying </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security, and there can be no assurance that the Fund’s hedging transactions will be effective. The use of hedging </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may result in certain adverse tax consequences.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Tax Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Certain aspects of the tax treatment of derivative instruments, including swap agreements and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">commodity-linked derivative instruments, are currently unclear and may be affected by changes in legislation, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">regulations or other legally binding authority. Such treatment may be less favorable than that given to a direct </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">investment in an underlying asset and may adversely affect the timing, character and amount of income the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">realizes from its investments.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Risks Specific to Certain Derivatives Used by the Fund</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Forward foreign currency exchange transactions are OTC </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">contracts to purchase or sell a specified amount of a specified currency or multinational currency unit at a price </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">and future date set at the time of the contract. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts do not eliminate </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuations in the value of non-U.S. securities but rather allow the Fund to establish a fixed rate of exchange for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">a future point in time. This strategy can have the effect of reducing returns and minimizing opportunities for gain.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Futures</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Futures are standardized, exchange-traded contracts that obligate a purchaser to take delivery, and a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">seller to make delivery, of a specific amount of an asset at a specified future date at a specified price. The </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts and options are: (a) the imperfect correlation between </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the change in market value of the instruments held by the Fund and the price of the futures contract or option; </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(b) the possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures contract and the resulting inability to close a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">futures contract when desired; (c) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which are potentially </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">unlimited; (d) the investment adviser’s inability to predict correctly the direction of securities prices, interest </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">rates, currency exchange rates and other economic factors; and (e) the possibility that the counterparty will </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">default in the performance of its obligations.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Swaps</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Swap agreements, including total return swaps that may be referred to as contracts for difference, are </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">two-party contracts entered into for periods ranging from a few days to more than one year. In a standard “swap” </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">transaction, two parties agree to exchange the value(s) or cash flow(s) of one asset for another over a certain </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">period of time. Swap agreements involve the risk that the party with whom the Fund has entered into the swap </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">will default on its obligation to pay the Fund and the risk that the Fund will not be able to meet its obligations to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">pay the other party to the agreement. Swap agreements may also involve the risk that there is an imperfect </span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-left: 24pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">correlation between the return on the Fund’s obligation to its counterparty and the return on the referenced </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">asset. In addition, swap agreements are subject to market and illiquidity risk, leverage risk and hedging risk. The </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">income tax treatment of swap agreements is unsettled and may be subject to future legislation, regulation or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">administrative pronouncements issued by the Internal Revenue Service. If future guidance limits the Fund’s </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">ability to use derivatives, the Fund may have to find other ways of achieving its investment objective. The Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">expects to settle or close out swap positions from time to time so that the value of any “in-the-money” swap </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">positions with a single counterparty (and other securities issued by that counterparty) will not exceed 5% of the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">value of the Fund’s total assets. While this is intended to limit counterparty risk, it may also result in the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">realizing income sooner, and/or realizing more income taxable at ordinary income tax rates, potentially causing </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shareholders to pay more in taxes and/or pay taxes sooner than would otherwise be the case.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">To the extent derivatives are utilized to implement the Fund’s investment strategies, the transactions may involve </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the risks described below with respect to investments in equity securities and short sales of securities.</span> <br/></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Short Sales and Short Position Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may engage in short sales and gain short exposure through certain derivative instruments, such as futures, options </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">or swaps. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position and the potential losses </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">are theoretically unlimited on a short sale or position.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Model Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these models may perform differently than as forecasted due to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the factors incorporated into the models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issues in the construction and implementation of the models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">AI</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">), and other technological issues). There is no </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">guarantee that BlackRock’s use of these models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The information and data used in the models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">limit the effectiveness of the models. In addition, some of the data that BlackRock uses may be historical data, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the models will not be successful in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable the Fund to achieve </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">its investment objective.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Depositary Receipts Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Depositary receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In addition to investment risks associated with the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underlying issuer, depositary receipts expose the Fund to additional risks associated with the non-uniform terms </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">that apply to depositary receipt programs, credit exposure to the depository bank and to the sponsors and other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">parties with whom the depository bank establishes the programs, currency risk and the risk of an illiquid market for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">depositary receipts. The issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not obligated to disclose information that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">is, in the United States, considered material. Therefore, there may be less information available regarding these </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers and there may not be a correlation between such information and the market value of the depositary </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">receipts. While depositary receipts provide an alternative to directly purchasing underlying foreign securities in their </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">respective markets and currencies, they continue to be subject to many of the risks associated with investing </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">directly in foreign securities, including political, economic, and currency risk.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">High Portfolio Turnover Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of its portfolio securities. High </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">portfolio turnover (more than 100%) may result in increased transaction costs to the Fund, including brokerage </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs on the sale of the securities and on reinvestment in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">other securities. The sale of Fund portfolio securities may result in the realization and/or distribution to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shareholders of higher capital gains or losses as compared to a fund with less active trading policies. These effects </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">of higher than normal portfolio turnover may adversely affect Fund performance.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Indexed Securities Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Indexed securities provide a potential return based on a particular index of value or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">interest rates. The Fund’s return on these securities will be subject to risk with respect to the value of the particular </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">index. These securities are subject to leverage risk and correlation risk. Certain indexed securities have greater </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">sensitivity to changes in interest rates or index levels than other securities, and the Fund’s investment in such </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">instruments may decline significantly in value if interest rates or index levels move in a way Fund management does </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">not anticipate.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Leverage Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Some transactions may give rise to a form of economic leverage. These transactions may include, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">among others, derivatives, and may expose the Fund to greater risk and increase its costs. The use of leverage may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations or </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to meet the applicable requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Company Act”), and the rules thereunder. Increases and decreases in the value of the Fund’s portfolio will be </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">magnified when the Fund uses leverage.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Market Risk and Selection Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Market risk is the risk that one or more markets in which the Fund invests will </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">go down in value, including the possibility that the markets will go down sharply and unpredictably. An investor could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">lose money over short periods due to fluctuation in the Fund’s net asset value in response to short-term market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">movements and over longer periods during market downturns. Securities or other investments held by the Fund may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underperform the markets, the relevant indices or benchmarks, or the securities selected by other funds with </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">similar investment objectives and investment strategies, or may otherwise fail to perform as intended. The value of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">a security or other asset may decline due to changes in general market conditions, economic trends or events that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or other asset, or factors that affect a particular issuer or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers, exchange, country, group of countries, region, market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class. </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The success of the Fund’s activities could be affected by interest rates, availability of credit, inflation rates, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">economic uncertainty, changes in laws, tariffs and trade barriers, supply chain disruptions, economic sanctions, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">currency exchange controls, and local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, natural and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">environmental disasters, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events. </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">and is subject to “Model Risk” as described above.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Recent policy initiatives undertaken by the U.S. government have the potential to impact international relations, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">trade agreements and the overall regulatory environment in ways that could create uncertainty and instability in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">domestic and global markets, and could adversely affect the investment performance of the Fund. In particular, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">actions taken by the U.S. government in respect of international trade relations could lead to trade wars, increased </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">costs for imported goods, disruptions in supply chains, reduced foreign investment, and instability in regions where </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the Fund invests.</span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mid Cap Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The securities of mid cap companies generally trade in lower volumes and are generally </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">subject to greater and less predictable price changes than the securities of larger capitalization companies.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Money Market Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— If market conditions improve while the Fund has invested some or all of its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">assets in high quality money market securities, this strategy could result in reducing the potential gain from the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">market upswing, thus reducing the Fund’s opportunity to achieve its investment objective.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Operational and Technology Risks </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund is directly and indirectly susceptible to operational and technology </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">risks, including those related to human errors, processing errors, communication errors, systems failures, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">cybersecurity incidents, and the use of AI, which may result in losses for the Fund and its shareholders or may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">impair the Fund’s operations. While the Fund’s service providers are required to have appropriate operational, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">information security and cybersecurity risk management policies and procedures, their methods of risk management </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may differ from those of the Fund. Operational and technology risks for the issuers in which the Fund invests could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">also result in material adverse consequences for such issuers and may cause the Fund’s investments in such </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers to lose value.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Risk of Investing in the United States </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Certain changes in the U.S. economy, such as when the U.S. economy </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">weakens or when its financial markets decline, may have an adverse effect on the securities to which the Fund has </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exposure.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Treasury Obligations Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury have historically involved little risk of loss of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">principal if held to maturity. However, due to fluctuations in interest rates, the market value of such securities may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">vary during the period shareholders own shares of the Fund. In addition, notwithstanding that U.S. Treasury </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, circumstances could arise that could prevent </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the timely payment of interest or principal, such as reaching the legislative “debt ceiling.” Such non-payment could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">result in losses to the Fund and substantial negative consequences for the U.S. economy and the global financial </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">system.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> Performance Information <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The information shows you how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">risks of investing in the Fund. The table compares the Fund’s performance to that of the MSCI World Index (Net) and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index. The ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is relevant to the Fund</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> because it has characteristics similar to the Fund’s investment strategies. To the extent that dividends and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">distributions have been paid by the Fund, the performance information for the Fund in the chart and table assumes </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">reinvestment of the dividends and distributions. As with all such investments, past performance (before and after </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">taxes) is not an indication of future results. Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart. If they were, returns </span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">would be less than those shown. However, the table includes all applicable fees and sales charges. If BlackRock and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">its affiliates had not waived or reimbursed certain Fund expenses during these periods, the Fund’s returns would have </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">been lower. Updated information on the Fund’s performance, including its current net asset value, can be obtained by </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">visiting www.blackrock.com or can be obtained by phone at </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(800) 882-0052</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">.</span></div> The information shows you how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The table compares the Fund’s performance to that of the MSCI World Index (Net) and the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index. The ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is relevant to the Fund because it has characteristics similar to the Fund’s investment strategies. As with all such investments, past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart. If they were, returnswould be less than those shown. However, the table includes all applicable fees and sales charges. www.blackrock.com (800) 882-0052 Investor A Shares ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS BlackRock Global Equity Market Neutral Fund As of 12/31 <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">During the ten-year period shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a quarter was 9.43% (quarter ended </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">March 31, 2024) and the lowest return for a quarter was -4.93% (quarter ended June 30, 2016). The year-to-date return</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> as of June 30, 2026 was 10.18%.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 1pt; line-height: 0.93pt;"> </span></div> highest return 0.0943 2024-03-31 lowest return -0.0493 2016-06-30 year-to-date return 2026-06-30 0.1018 For the periods ended 12/31/25Average Annual Total Returns 0.1185 0.1015 0.0550 0.0798 0.0760 0.0398 0.0702 0.0680 0.0362 0.1615 0.1049 0.0544 0.1827 0.1159 0.0634 0.2109 0.1215 0.1217 0.0418 0.0317 0.0218 <div style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for Investor A Shares only, and the after-tax returns for Investor C and Institutional Shares will vary.</span></div> After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for Investor A Shares only, and the after-tax returns for Investor C and Institutional Shares will vary. Fund Overview Key Facts About BlackRock Global Equity Market Neutral Fund Investment Objective <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The investment objective of BlackRock Global Equity Market Neutral Fund (the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Fund</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">), a series of BlackRock Funds</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 5pt; position: relative; top: -3.25pt;">SM</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Trust</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">), is to seek total return over the long term.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> Fees and Expenses of the Fund <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell Class K Shares of the Fund. </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Amounts in the table are rounded to the nearest basis point, which in some cases may be </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">0.00.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">You may pay other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to your financial professional or your selected securities </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">dealer, broker, investment adviser, service provider or industry professional (including BlackRock Advisors, LLC </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">(“BlackRock”) and its affiliates) (each, a “Financial Intermediary”), which are not reflected in the table and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-weight: bold;">example below.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 1pt; line-height: 0.93pt;"> </span></div> Annual Fund Operating Expenses(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0115 0 0.0010 0.0125 0.0125 June 30, 2028 The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Other Expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets given in the Fund’s most recent Annual Financial Statements and Additional Information, which do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. Example: <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 1pt; line-height: 0.93pt;"> </span></div> 127 397 686 1511 Portfolio Turnover: <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the </span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">113</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">% of the average value of its portfolio.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> 1.13 Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in equity instruments and related </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">derivative instruments issued by, or tied economically to, companies located in developed markets. Investments in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">derivatives are counted toward the Fund’s 80% policy to the extent that they provide investment exposure to the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">securities included within that policy or to one or more market risk factors associated with such securities. The Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">determines that an investment is tied economically to a developed market if such investment satisfies one or more of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the following conditions: 1) the issuer’s primary trading market is in a developed market; 2) the issuer is organized </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">under the laws of, derives at least 50% of its revenue from, or has at least 50% of its assets in developed markets; 3) </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the investment is included in an index representative of developed markets; and 4) the investment is exposed to the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">economic risks and returns of developed markets. The Fund may invest in securities of issuers of any market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">capitalization and in securities denominated in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund intends to be market-neutral, which means that the Fund seeks to produce returns that have a low </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">correlation to the returns of the equity markets in which the Fund invests. The Fund pursues this market-neutral </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">strategy by taking both long and short positions in a variety of developed market equity instruments. The Fund expects </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to maintain long and short positions primarily through the use of swap agreements and other derivative instruments, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">such as futures, and may invest in such instruments without limitation. Although the Fund intends to maintain an </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">overall long position in its portfolio investments, the Fund generally expects to maintain significant short positions in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">equity securities and equity-related instruments. In certain circumstances, these short positions may approach or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">reach the size of the overall long position. A long position arises where the Fund holds a security in its portfolio or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">maintains a position through a derivative instrument that provides economic exposure similar to direct ownership of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the security. The Fund will have a short position where it sells a security it does not own by delivery of a borrowed </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security or has entered into a derivative instrument that provides economic exposure similar to a short sale of the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security. The Fund looks to identify overvalued, undervalued or mispriced stocks and other equity instruments through </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">proprietary ranking techniques. The Fund takes long positions primarily in securities that BlackRock has identified as </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">attractive and short positions in such securities that BlackRock has identified as overvalued or poised for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underperformance.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Under normal circumstances, the Fund anticipates it will allocate a substantial amount (approximately 40% or more — </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by BlackRock, in which case the Fund would invest at least 30%) </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">of its total assets in securities (or derivatives with similar economic characteristics) of (i) foreign government issuers, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(ii) issuers organized or located outside the United States, (iii) issuers whose securities primarily trade in a market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">located outside the United States, or (iv) issuers doing a substantial amount of business outside the United States, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which the Fund considers to be companies that derive at least 50% of their revenue or profits from business outside </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the United States or have at least 50% of their sales or assets outside the United States. The Fund will allocate its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">assets among various regions and countries, including the United States (but in no less than three different countries). </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">For temporary defensive purposes, the Fund may deviate very substantially from the allocation described above.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund may utilize derivative instruments as a significant part of its strategy.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">When consistent with the Fund’s investment objective, the Fund’s investments may include short-term investments, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">such as cash and cash equivalents, U.S. Government and agency securities, money market funds (including funds that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may be affiliated with or sponsored or managed by BlackRock), commercial paper, certificates of deposit and other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">bank deposits and bankers’ acceptances.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Equity instruments consist of:</span></div><div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Common stock</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div><div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Depositary receipts</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div><div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Derivative securities or instruments such as futures, options, forward contracts and swaps (including, but not </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">limited to, total return swaps, some of which may be referred to as contracts for difference), the value of which is </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">based on a common stock or group of common stocks. A contract for difference offers exposure to price changes in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">an underlying security without ownership of such security, typically by providing investors the ability to trade on </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">margin.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div><div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its primary investment strategies.</span></div> Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in equity instruments and related derivative instruments issued by, or tied economically to, companies located in developed markets. Investments in derivatives are counted toward the Fund’s 80% policy to the extent that they provide investment exposure to the securities included within that policy or to one or more market risk factors associated with such securities. The Fund determines that an investment is tied economically to a developed market if such investment satisfies one or more of the following conditions: 1) the issuer’s primary trading market is in a developed market; 2) the issuer is organized under the laws of, derives at least 50% of its revenue from, or has at least 50% of its assets in developed markets; 3) the investment is included in an index representative of developed markets; and 4) the investment is exposed to the economic risks and returns of developed markets. The Fund may invest in securities of issuers of any market capitalization and in securities denominated in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. You may lose part or all of your investment in the Fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Equity Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Stock markets are volatile. The price of equity securities fluctuates based on changes in a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">company’s financial condition and overall market and economic conditions.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Foreign Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Foreign investments often involve special risks not present in U.S. investments that can </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">increase the chances that the Fund will lose money. These risks include:</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund generally holds its foreign securities and cash in foreign banks and securities depositories, which may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">be recently organized or new to the foreign custody business and may be subject to only limited or no regulatory </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">oversight.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Changes in foreign currency exchange rates can affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The economies of certain foreign markets may not compare favorably with the economy of the United States with </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">respect to such issues as growth of gross national product, reinvestment of capital, resources and balance of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">payments position.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The governments of certain countries, or the U.S. Government with respect to certain countries, may prohibit or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">impose substantial restrictions through capital controls and/or sanctions on foreign investments in the capital </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">markets or certain industries in those countries, which may prohibit or restrict the ability to own or transfer </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">currency, securities, derivatives or other assets.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Many foreign governments do not supervise and regulate stock exchanges, brokers and the sale of securities to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the same extent as does the United States and may not have laws to protect investors that are comparable to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">U.S. securities laws.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Settlement and clearance procedures in certain foreign markets may result in delays in payment for or delivery of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">securities not typically associated with settlement and clearance of U.S. investments.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 493.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund’s claims to recover foreign withholding taxes may not be successful, and if the likelihood of recovery of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">foreign withholding taxes materially decreases, due to, for example, a change in tax regulation or approach in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">foreign country, accruals in the Fund’s net asset value for such refunds may be written down partially or in full, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which will adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Derivatives Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The Fund’s use of derivatives may increase its costs, reduce the Fund’s returns and/or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">increase volatility. Derivatives involve significant risks, including:</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Leverage Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The Fund’s use of derivatives can magnify the Fund’s gains and losses. Relatively small market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">movements may result in large changes in the value of a derivatives position and can result in losses that greatly </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exceed the amount originally invested.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Market Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Some derivatives are more sensitive to interest rate changes and market price fluctuations than </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">other securities. The Fund could also suffer losses related to its derivatives positions as a result of unanticipated </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">market movements, which losses are potentially unlimited. Finally, BlackRock may not be able to predict correctly </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the direction of securities prices, interest rates and other economic factors, which could cause the Fund’s </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">derivatives positions to lose value.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Counterparty Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Derivatives are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party in the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">transaction will be unable or unwilling to fulfill its contractual obligation, and the related risks of having concentrated </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exposure to such a counterparty.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Illiquidity Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The possible lack of a liquid secondary market for derivatives and the resulting inability of the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to sell or otherwise close a derivatives position could expose the Fund to losses and could make derivatives more </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">difficult for the Fund to value accurately.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Operational Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The use of derivatives includes the risk of potential operational issues, including documentation </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issues, settlement issues, systems failures, inadequate controls and human error.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Legal Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — The risk of insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of counterparty, or legality or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">enforceability of a contract.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Volatility and Correlation Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Volatility is defined as the characteristic of a security, an index or a market to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuate significantly in price within a short time period. A risk of the Fund’s use of derivatives is that the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuations in their values may not correlate with the overall securities markets.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Valuation Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Valuation for derivatives may not be readily available in the market. Valuation may be more difficult </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">in times of market turmoil since many investors and market makers may be reluctant to purchase complex </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">instruments or quote prices for them.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Hedging Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Hedges are sometimes subject to imperfect matching between the derivative and the underlying </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">security, and there can be no assurance that the Fund’s hedging transactions will be effective. The use of hedging </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may result in certain adverse tax consequences.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Tax Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Certain aspects of the tax treatment of derivative instruments, including swap agreements and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">commodity-linked derivative instruments, are currently unclear and may be affected by changes in legislation, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">regulations or other legally binding authority. Such treatment may be less favorable than that given to a direct </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">investment in an underlying asset and may adversely affect the timing, character and amount of income the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">realizes from its investments.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Risks Specific to Certain Derivatives Used by the Fund</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Forward foreign currency exchange transactions are OTC </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">contracts to purchase or sell a specified amount of a specified currency or multinational currency unit at a price </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">and future date set at the time of the contract. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts do not eliminate </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">fluctuations in the value of non-U.S. securities but rather allow the Fund to establish a fixed rate of exchange for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">a future point in time. This strategy can have the effect of reducing returns and minimizing opportunities for gain.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Futures</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Futures are standardized, exchange-traded contracts that obligate a purchaser to take delivery, and a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">seller to make delivery, of a specific amount of an asset at a specified future date at a specified price. The </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts and options are: (a) the imperfect correlation between </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the change in market value of the instruments held by the Fund and the price of the futures contract or option; </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">(b) the possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures contract and the resulting inability to close a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">futures contract when desired; (c) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which are potentially </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">unlimited; (d) the investment adviser’s inability to predict correctly the direction of securities prices, interest </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">rates, currency exchange rates and other economic factors; and (e) the possibility that the counterparty will </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">default in the performance of its obligations.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">Swaps</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Swap agreements, including total return swaps that may be referred to as contracts for difference, are </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">two-party contracts entered into for periods ranging from a few days to more than one year. In a standard “swap” </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">transaction, two parties agree to exchange the value(s) or cash flow(s) of one asset for another over a certain </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">period of time. Swap agreements involve the risk that the party with whom the Fund has entered into the swap </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">will default on its obligation to pay the Fund and the risk that the Fund will not be able to meet its obligations to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">pay the other party to the agreement. Swap agreements may also involve the risk that there is an imperfect </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">correlation between the return on the Fund’s obligation to its counterparty and the return on the referenced </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">asset. In addition, swap agreements are subject to market and illiquidity risk, leverage risk and hedging risk. The </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">income tax treatment of swap agreements is unsettled and may be subject to future legislation, regulation or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">administrative pronouncements issued by the Internal Revenue Service. If future guidance limits the Fund’s </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">ability to use derivatives, the Fund may have to find other ways of achieving its investment objective. The Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">expects to settle or close out swap positions from time to time so that the value of any “in-the-money” swap </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">positions with a single counterparty (and other securities issued by that counterparty) will not exceed 5% of the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">value of the Fund’s total assets. While this is intended to limit counterparty risk, it may also result in the Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">realizing income sooner, and/or realizing more income taxable at ordinary income tax rates, potentially causing </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shareholders to pay more in taxes and/or pay taxes sooner than would otherwise be the case.</span></div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">To the extent derivatives are utilized to implement the Fund’s investment strategies, the transactions may involve </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the risks described below with respect to investments in equity securities and short sales of securities.</span> <br/></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Short Sales and Short Position Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Because making short sales or taking short positions in securities that it </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">does not own would expose the Fund to the risks associated with those securities, such short sales or positions </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">involve speculative exposure risk. In such situations, the Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale or position </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">if the price of the reference instrument increases after the Fund entered into the short sale or position. The Fund </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may engage in short sales and gain short exposure through certain derivative instruments, such as futures, options </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">or swaps. The Fund may lose more money than the actual cost of a short sale or position and the potential losses </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">are theoretically unlimited on a short sale or position.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Model Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">quantitative analysis. Investments selected using these models may perform differently than as forecasted due to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the factors incorporated into the models and the weighting of each factor, changes from historical trends, and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issues in the construction and implementation of the models (including, but not limited to, software issues, issues </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">“</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">AI</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">”</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">), and other technological issues). There is no </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">guarantee that BlackRock’s use of these models will result in effective investment decisions for the Fund.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The information and data used in the models may be supplied by third parties. Inaccurate or incomplete data may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">limit the effectiveness of the models. In addition, some of the data that BlackRock uses may be historical data, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">which may not accurately predict future market movement. There is a risk that the models will not be successful in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">selecting investments or in determining the weighting of investment positions that will enable the Fund to achieve </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">its investment objective.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Depositary Receipts Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Depositary receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In addition to investment risks associated with the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underlying issuer, depositary receipts expose the Fund to additional risks associated with the non-uniform terms </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">that apply to depositary receipt programs, credit exposure to the depository bank and to the sponsors and other </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">parties with whom the depository bank establishes the programs, currency risk and the risk of an illiquid market for </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">depositary receipts. The issuers of unsponsored depositary receipts are not obligated to disclose information that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">is, in the United States, considered material. Therefore, there may be less information available regarding these </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers and there may not be a correlation between such information and the market value of the depositary </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">receipts. While depositary receipts provide an alternative to directly purchasing underlying foreign securities in their </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">respective markets and currencies, they continue to be subject to many of the risks associated with investing </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">directly in foreign securities, including political, economic, and currency risk.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">High Portfolio Turnover Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of its portfolio securities. High </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">portfolio turnover (more than 100%) may result in increased transaction costs to the Fund, including brokerage </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">commissions, dealer mark-ups and other transaction costs on the sale of the securities and on reinvestment in </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">other securities. The sale of Fund portfolio securities may result in the realization and/or distribution to </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">shareholders of higher capital gains or losses as compared to a fund with less active trading policies. These effects </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">of higher than normal portfolio turnover may adversely affect Fund performance.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Indexed Securities Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Indexed securities provide a potential return based on a particular index of value or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">interest rates. The Fund’s return on these securities will be subject to risk with respect to the value of the particular </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">index. These securities are subject to leverage risk and correlation risk. Certain indexed securities have greater </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">sensitivity to changes in interest rates or index levels than other securities, and the Fund’s investment in such </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">instruments may decline significantly in value if interest rates or index levels move in a way Fund management does </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">not anticipate.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Leverage Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Some transactions may give rise to a form of economic leverage. These transactions may include, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">among others, derivatives, and may expose the Fund to greater risk and increase its costs. The use of leverage may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">to meet the applicable requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Company Act”), and the rules thereunder. Increases and decreases in the value of the Fund’s portfolio will be </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">magnified when the Fund uses leverage.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Market Risk and Selection Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— Market risk is the risk that one or more markets in which the Fund invests will </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">go down in value, including the possibility that the markets will go down sharply and unpredictably. An investor could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">lose money over short periods due to fluctuation in the Fund’s net asset value in response to short-term market </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">movements and over longer periods during market downturns. Securities or other investments held by the Fund may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">underperform the markets, the relevant indices or benchmarks, or the securities selected by other funds with </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">similar investment objectives and investment strategies, or may otherwise fail to perform as intended. The value of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">a security or other asset may decline due to changes in general market conditions, economic trends or events that </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or other asset, or factors that affect a particular issuer or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers, exchange, country, group of countries, region, market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class. </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The success of the Fund’s activities could be affected by interest rates, availability of credit, inflation rates, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">economic uncertainty, changes in laws, tariffs and trade barriers, supply chain disruptions, economic sanctions, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">currency exchange controls, and local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, natural and </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">environmental disasters, the spread of infectious illness or other public healthissues, recessions, or other events. </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The Fund seeks to pursue its investment objective by using proprietary models that incorporate quantitative analysis </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">and is subject to “Model Risk” as described above.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">Recent policy initiatives undertaken by the U.S. government have the potential to impact international relations, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">trade agreements and the overall regulatory environment in ways that could create uncertainty and instability in </span></div> <div style="line-height: 10.695pt; margin-left: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">domestic and global markets, and could adversely affect the investment performance of the Fund. In particular, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">actions taken by the U.S. government in respect of international trade relations could lead to trade wars, increased </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">costs for imported goods, disruptions in supply chains, reduced foreign investment, and instability in regions where </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the Fund invests.</span></div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mid Cap Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The securities of mid cap companies generally trade in lower volumes and are generally </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">subject to greater and less predictable price changes than the securities of larger capitalization companies.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Money Market Securities Risk </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— If market conditions improve while the Fund has invested some or all of its </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">assets in high quality money market securities, this strategy could result in reducing the potential gain from the </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">market upswing, thus reducing the Fund’s opportunity to achieve its investment objective.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Operational and Technology Risks </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">— The Fund is directly and indirectly susceptible to operational and technology </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">risks, including those related to human errors, processing errors, communication errors, systems failures, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">cybersecurity incidents, and the use of AI, which may result in losses for the Fund and its shareholders or may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">impair the Fund’s operations. While the Fund’s service providers are required to have appropriate operational, </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">information security and cybersecurity risk management policies and procedures, their methods of risk management </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">may differ from those of the Fund. Operational and technology risks for the issuers in which the Fund invests could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">also result in material adverse consequences for such issuers and may cause the Fund’s investments in such </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">issuers to lose value.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Risk of Investing in the United States </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic;">—</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> Certain changes in the U.S. economy, such as when the U.S. economy </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">weakens or when its financial markets decline, may have an adverse effect on the securities to which the Fund has </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">exposure.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div> <div style="clear: both; margin-top: 4.805pt; position: relative; width: 100%;"> <div style="float: left; line-height: 9.87pt; text-align: left; width: 8pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 8.37pt; position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">◼</span></div> <div style="float: left; line-height: 10.80pt; margin-left: 4pt; text-align: left; width: 505.00pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Treasury Obligations Risk</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;"> — Direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury have historically involved little risk of loss of </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">principal if held to maturity. However, due to fluctuations in interest rates, the market value of such securities may </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">vary during the period shareholders own shares of the Fund. In addition, notwithstanding that U.S. Treasury </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, circumstances could arise that could prevent </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">the timely payment of interest or principal, such as reaching the legislative “debt ceiling.” Such non-payment could </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">result in losses to the Fund and substantial negative consequences for the U.S. economy and the global financial </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">system.</span></div> </div> <div style="clear: both; position: relative;"> </div> </div> Performance Information <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">The information shows you how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Class K Shares commenced operations on March 28, 2016. As a result, the returns shown below for Class K Shares prior to March 28, 2016 are those of the Fund’s Institutional Shares, which are not offered in this prospectus. The performance of Class K Shares would be substantially similar to Institutional Shares because Class K Shares and Institutional Shares are invested in the same portfolio of securities and performance would differ only to the extent that Class K Shares and Institutional Shares have different expenses. The actual returns of Class K Shares would have been higher than those of Institutional Shares because Class K Shares have lower expenses than Institutional Shares. The table compares the Fund’s performance to that of the MSCI World Index (Net) and the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index. The ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is relevant to the Fund because it has characteristics similar to the Fund’s investment strategies. To the extent that dividends and distributions have been paid by the Fund, the performance information for the Fund in the chart and table assumes reinvestment of the dividends and distributions. As with all such investments, past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. The table includes all applicable fees. If BlackRock and its affiliates had not waived or reimbursed certain Fund expenses during these periods, the Fund’s returns would have been lower. Updated information on the Fund’s performance, including its current net asset value, can be obtained by visiting www.blackrock.com or can be obtained by phone at (800) 882-0052. </span></div> The information shows you how the Fund’s performance has varied year by year and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The table compares the Fund’s performance to that of the MSCI World Index (Net) and the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index. The ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index is relevant to the Fund because it has characteristics similar to the Fund’s investment strategies. As with all such investments, past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. www.blackrock.com (800) 882-0052 Class K Shares ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS BlackRock Global Equity Market Neutral Fund As of 12/31 <div style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">During the ten-year period shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a quarter was 9.56% (quarter ended </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">March 31, 2024) and the lowest return for a quarter was -4.90% (quarter ended June 30, 2016). The year-to-date return as of June 30, 2026 was 10.45%.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 1pt; line-height: 0.93pt;"> </span></div> highest return 0.0956 2024-03-31 lowest return -0.0490 2016-06-30 year-to-date return 2026-06-30 0.1045 For the periods ended 12/31/25Average Annual Total Returns 0.1835 0.1166 0.0640 0.1424 0.0905 0.0483 0.1086 0.0801 0.0434 0.2109 0.1215 0.1217 0.0418 0.0317 0.0218 <div style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.30pt; line-height: 10.695pt;"> </span></div> After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. As described in the “Management of the Fund” section of the Fund’s prospectus beginning on page 44, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive the management fee with respect to any portion of the Fund’s assets estimated to be attributable to investments in other equity and fixed-income mutual funds and exchange-traded funds managed by BlackRock or its affiliates that have a contractual management fee, through June 30, 2028. In addition, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive its management fees by the amount of investment advisory fees the Fund pays to BlackRock indirectly through its investment in money market funds managed by BlackRock or its affiliates, through June 30, 2028. The contractual agreements may be terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the non-interested trustees of the Trust or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Other Expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets given in the Fund’s most recent Annual Financial Statements and Additional Information, which do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. As described in the “Management of the Fund” section of the Fund’s prospectus beginning on page 44, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive and/or reimburse fees or expenses in order to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements (excluding Dividend Expense, Interest Expense, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and certain other Fund expenses) to 1.59% (for Investor A Shares), 2.34% (for Investor C Shares) and 1.34% (for Institutional Shares) of average daily net assets through June 30, 2028. The contractual agreement may be terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the non-interested trustees of the Trust or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. A contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1.00% is assessed on certain redemptions of Investor A Shares made within 18 months after purchase where no initial sales charge was paid at the time of purchase as part of an investment of $1,000,000 or more. Returns for net indices generally assume the reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of the maximum withholding tax in each country applicable to non-residents of the country as determined by the index provider. Such indices use withholding tax rates that are often at a higher rate than the rates to which the Fund is subject in each country, including for countries where the Fund is not subject to withholding taxes. When this is the case, index performance will be lower than if the index used the Fund’s applicable withholding tax rates, if any. For additional comparative performance information for the MSCI World Index, please see the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. On December 1, 2023, the Fund began to compare its performance to the standard pricing time of the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (the “Index”). Index data prior to March 1, 2021 is for the Index’s standard pricing time of 3pm. Index data from March 1, 2021 through November 30, 2023 is for a custom 4pm pricing variant of the Index. Index returns beginning on December 1, 2023 reflect the Index’s new standard pricing time of 4pm. The change of the Index’s standard pricing time from 3pm to 4pm resulted in the discontinuation of the custom 4pm pricing variant used from March 1, 2021 through November 30, 2023. As described in the “Management of the Fund” section of the Fund’s prospectus beginning on page 32, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive the management fee with respect to any portion of the Fund’s assets estimated to be attributable to investments in other equity and fixed-income mutual funds and exchange-traded funds managed by BlackRock or its affiliates that have a contractual management fee, through June 30, 2028. In addition, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive its management fees by the amount of investment advisory fees the Fund pays to BlackRock indirectly through its investment in money market funds managed by BlackRock or its affiliates, through June 30, 2028. The contractual agreements may be terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the non-interested trustees of the Trust or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Other Expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets given in the Fund’s most recent Annual Financial Statements and Additional Information, which do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. There is no CDSC on Investor C Shares after one year. As described in the “Management of the Fund” section of the Fund’s prospectus beginning on page 32, BlackRock has contractually agreed to waive and/or reimburse fees or expenses in order to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements (excluding Dividend Expense, Interest Expense, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and certain other Fund expenses) to 1.29% of average daily net assets through June 30, 2028. The contractual agreement may be terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the non-interested trustees of the Trust or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund. Returns for net indices generally assume the reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of the maximum withholding tax in each country applicable to non-residents of the country as determined by the index provider. Such indices use withholding tax rates that are often at a higher rate than the rates to which the Fund is subject in each country, including for countries where the Fund is not subject to withholding taxes. When this is the case, index performance will be lower than if the index used the Fund’s applicable withholding tax rates, if any. For additional comparative performance information for the MSCI World Index, please see the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. On December 1, 2023, the Fund began to compare its performance to the standard pricing time of the ICE BofA 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (the “Index”). Index data prior to March 1, 2021 is for the Index’s standard pricing time of 3pm. Index data from March 1, 2021 through November 30, 2023 is for a custom 4pm pricing variant of the Index. Index returns beginning on December 1, 2023 reflect the Index’s new standard pricing time of 4pm. The change of the Index’s standard pricing time from 3pm to 4pm resulted in the discontinuation of the custom 4pm pricing variant used from March 1, 2021 through November 30, 2023.