iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the aggregate in the Brazilian market, as measured by the MSCI Brazil Index. The Fund invests in a sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. As at August 31, 2009, the Fund’s investment portfolio includes basic materials, energy, financial, consumer non-cyclical, utilities, communications, diversified, industrial, consumer cyclical, and short-term and other net assets. The investment advisor of the Fund is Barclays Global Fund Advisors (BGFA). BGFA is a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors, N.A.