Robert Silver - IShares Consumer Independent Trustee

IYC Etf  USD 87.92  0.33  0.37%   
Robert Silver is Portfolio Manager at iShares Consumer Discretionary
Mr. Robert H. Silver serves as an Independent Trustee of Ishares Dow Jones US Consumer Services Sector Index Fund since 2007. Mr. Silver has served as a Director of iShares, Inc. since 2007 and a Director of iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund, Inc. since 2010. Mr. Silver is President and a cofounder of The Bravitas Group Inc., a firm dedicated to advising and investing in emerging business enterprises and to supporting philanthropic activities that benefit underserved urban youth. Previously, Mr. Silver served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of UBS Financial Services Inc. Mr. Silver also served on the Board of Directors of EPAM, a provider of software engineering outsourcing services in Central and Eastern Europe, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation and served as a governor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. In addition, Mr. Silver is a Vice Chairman and a Member of the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Greater New York and chairs its Fund Development Committee since 2001 and CoFounder and Vice President of Parentgiving Inc. since 2008. Mr. Silver began his career as a CPA at KPMG LLP from 1983 until 1997
Age 57
Tenure 18 years
Webhttp://www.ishares.com/us/products/239506/ishares-us-consumer-services-etf
IssueriShares
Inception Date2000-06-12
BenchmarkRussell 1000 Consumer Discretionary 40 Act 15/22.5 Daily Capped Index
Entity TypeRegulated Investment Company
Asset Under Management1.35 Billion
Average Trading Valume243,042.3
Asset TypeEquity
CategorySector
FocusConsumer Discretionary
Market ConcentrationDeveloped Markets
Silver has a BS in business administration from the University of North Carolina.

IShares Consumer Management Efficiency

The company has Return on Asset of 0.39 % which means that on every $100 spent on assets, it made $0.39 of profit. This is way below average. In the same way, it shows a return on shareholders' equity (ROE) of 40.31 %, implying that it generated $40.31 on every 100 dollars invested. IShares Consumer's management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well IShares Consumer manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
iShares Consumer Discretionary has 43.82 M in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 0.03, which may show that the company is not taking advantage of profits from borrowing. iShares Consumer Dis has a current ratio of 1.03, demonstrating that it may not be capable to disburse its financial commitments when the payables are due. Debt can assist IShares Consumer until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, IShares Consumer's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like iShares Consumer Dis sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for IShares to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about IShares Consumer's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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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 Consumer is traded on NYSEARCA Exchange in the United States. iShares Consumer Discretionary [IYC] is traded in USA and was established 2000-06-12.

Management Performance

iShares Consumer Dis Money Managers

Geoffrey Flynn, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President
Robert Silver, Independent Trustee
John Kerrigan, Independent Trustee
Madhav Rajan, Independent Trustee
Matt Tucker, Vice President
Cecilia Herbert, Independent Trustee
Michael Latham, President Trustee
Jack Gee, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer
Charles Hurty, Independent Trustee
Eilleen Clavere, Secretary
George Parker, Independent Chairman of the Board of Trustees
John Martinez, Independent Trustee
Amy Schioldager, Executive Vice President
Robert Kapito, Trustee
Ira Shapiro, Vice President Chief Legal Officer

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Please note, there is a significant difference between IShares Consumer's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if IShares Consumer is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, IShares Consumer's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.