BlackRock Commodity Strategies A
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Box 9011 Princeton, NJ 08543-9011
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Phone: 800-441-7762
| Category: | Specialty-Natural Res | | Fund Family: | BlackRock | | Net Assets: | 11.10M | | Year-to-Date Return: | 17.50% | | Yield: | 5.22% | | Morningstar Rating: |  | | Fund Inception Date: | 26-Mar-04 |
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Stuart Spodek
Lead Manager since
02-Oct-06 | | | Spodek is a managing director and portfolio manager with BlackRock Financial Management. He is a member of the investment strategy group. Spodek joined BlackRock in 1993. |
| Min Initial Investment: | $1,000 | | Min Initial Investment, IRA: | $100 | | Min Initial Investment, AIP: | $1,000 | | Min Subsequent Investment: | $50 | | Min Subsequent Investment, IRA: | $1 | | Min Subsequent Investment, AIP: | $50 |
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| The investment seeks positive long term total return. The fund generally invests in commodity-linked derivative instruments, and U.S. government securities and other debt obligations. The fund may also invest in corporate bonds and notes, mortgage-backed securities, asset backed securities, dollar rolls, and repurchase agreements and purchase and sale contracts. The debt obligations in which the fund will invest will primarily be investment grade, fixed rate and floating rate debt securities of any maturity. The fund is nondiversified. |
| Last Dividend
(20-Dec-07):
| 0.51 | | Last Cap Gain
(23-Dec-05):
| 0.01 | | Annual Holdings Turnover
| 346.00% | | Average for Category:
| 127.12% |
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| Expense | MDCDX | Category
Avg | | Total Expense Ratio: | 1.57%
| 1.54% | | Max 12b1 Fee: | 0.25%
| N/A | | Max Front End Sales Load: | 5.25%
| 5.24% | | Max Deferred Sales Load: | 0.00%
| 2.36% | | 3 Yr Expense Projection*: |
$1,180 | $657 | | 5 Yr Expense Projection*: |
$1,648 | $1,021 | | 10 Yr Expense Projection*: |
$2,936 | $2,010 |
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