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In the U.K., the investment company which manages iShares’ ETF’s is based in Ireland and (apparently) investors are not protected under U.K. regulation if iShares went bust. Are Canadian investors in iShares ETFs protected, and if so, to what level? —Pete Notter

Warren Mackenzie and Ken Hawkins: iShares assets are held in a custodian account,  separate from the management company’s  assets, which is BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (“BlackRock”). If Blackrock goes bankrupt the underlying assets of a iShare unit are protected. The iShares can not go bankrupt, even if the management company does.

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