Robert Kapito - IShares Utilities Trustee

IDU Etf  USD 105.57  0.05  0.05%   
Robert Kapito is Portfolio Manager at iShares Utilities ETF
Mr. Robert S. Kapito serves as Trustee of Ishares Trust Dow Jones United States. He was a Trustee of the Trust since 2009. Mr. Kapito has served as a Director of iShares, Inc. since 2009, a Director of iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund, Inc. since 2010 and a Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2007. In addition, he has over 20 years of experience as part of BlackRock, Inc. and BlackRocks predecessor entities. Mr. Kapito serves as President and Director of BlackRock, Inc., and is the Chairman of the Operating Committee, a member of the Office of the Chairman, the Leadership Committee and the Corporationrationrate Council. He is responsible for daytoday oversight of BlackRocks key operating units, including the Account Management and Portfolio Management Groups, Real Estate Group and BlackRock Solutions. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in 2007, Mr. Kapito served as Head of BlackRocks Portfolio ManagementGroup. Inthatrole, hewas responsibleforoverseeing all portfolio managementwithin BlackRock, including the Fixed Income, Equity, Liquidity, and Alternative Investment Groups. Mr. Kapito serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also President of the Board of Directors for the Hope Heroes Childrens Cancer Fund since 2002 and President of the Board of Directors for Periwinkle Theatre for Youth, a national nonprofit arts ineducation organization, since 1983
Age 62
Tenure 15 years
Professional MarksMBA
IssueriShares
Inception Date2000-06-12
BenchmarkRussell 1000 Utilities RIC 22.5/45 Capped Index
Entity TypeRegulated Investment Company
Asset Under Management1.48 Billion
Average Trading Valume85,675.5
Asset TypeEquity
CategorySector
FocusUtilities
Market ConcentrationDeveloped Markets
Kapito earned a BS degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1983.

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The fund generally will invest at least 80 percent of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index and in investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the component securities of its underlying index. US Utilities is traded on NYSEARCA Exchange in the United States. iShares Utilities ETF [IDU] is traded in USA and was established 2000-06-12.

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Michael Latham, President Trustee
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Charles Hurty, Independent Trustee
Eilleen Clavere, Secretary
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