iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-25
C000159053 — iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund. United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity · $1.34B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000159053 Fund Overview
iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Blackrock Funds, categorised as United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Blackrock Funds
- Category: United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $1.34B
- 1-year return: 40.1%
- SEC CIK: 0000844779
- SEC series ID: S000050373
- Share class ID: C000159053
C000159053 Investment Objective and Strategy
iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Blackrock Funds.
Investment objective
The investment objective of iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund (the “Fund”), a series of BlackRock Funds SM (the “Trust”), is to seek to track the performance of the small to mid-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Russell 2500 TM Index (the Underlying Index), which measures the performance of the small to mid-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe, commonly referred to as smid cap. The Underlying Index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index. It includes approximately 2500 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership. Components primarily include financial services, consumer discretionary and producer durables companies. The components of the Underlying Index, and the degree to which these components represent certain industries, may change over time. BlackRock uses a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage the Fund. Representative sampling is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to that of the Underlying Index.
The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Underlying Index. The Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund generally invests at least 90% of its assets, plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes, in securities of the Underlying Index.
C000159053 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| BlackRock Funds III | 8.56% |
| iShares Russell 2000 ETF | 0.82% |
| Blackrock Cash Funds Treasury Sl Agency Shares | 0.60% |
| iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF | 0.53% |
| ATI Inc | 0.34% |
| Carpenter Technology Corp | 0.34% |
| nVent Electric PLC | 0.33% |
| F5 Inc | 0.30% |
| US Foods Holding Corp | 0.29% |
| Tenet Healthcare Corp | 0.29% |
C000159053 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 9.2% |
C000159053 Performance
Total returns for C000159053 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 13.4% |
| 1 year | 40.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 17.8% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 6.9% |
C000159053 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000159053, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.7%
C000159053 Costs and Fees
C000159053 costs about $7 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.07%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.08%
- Portfolio turnover: 36%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.89 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000159053 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund had net inflows of $129.19M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | $208.30K |
| 2026-03 | $2.24M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.06M |
| 2026-01 | −$7.60M |
| 2025-12 | $38.29M |
| 2025-11 | −$6.69M |
C000159053 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000159053 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official iShares Russell Small/Mid-Cap Index Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-11-21
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-11-21
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-11-20
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-10-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-10-11
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.