Madhav Rajan - IShares Utilities Independent Trustee

IDU Etf  USD 105.52  0.03  0.03%   
Madhav Rajan is Portfolio Manager at iShares Utilities ETF
Mr. Madhav V. Rajan serves as Independent Trustee of Ishares Trust Dow Jones United States. He was a Trustee of the Trust since 2011. Mr. Rajan has served as a Director of iShares, Inc. and a Director of iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund, Inc. since 2011. Mr. Rajan is the Gregor G. Peterson Professor of Accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has taught accounting for over 20 years to undergraduate, MBA and law students, as well as to senior executives. Mr. Rajan serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and head of the MBA Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Rajan served as editor of The Accounting Review from 2002 to 2008 and is coauthor of Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis, a cost accounting textbook
Age 52
Tenure 13 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 Valume85,468.6
Asset TypeEquity
CategorySector
FocusUtilities
Market ConcentrationDeveloped Markets
Rajan holds an MS, MBA and Ph.D. in Accounting from Carnegie Mellon University.

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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.

iShares Utilities ETF 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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