Description to the Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund, traded under ticker symbol IWF: This ETF is a fund, created in May 2000, that corresponds to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the large-cap growth sector of the United States equities market, as represented by the Russell 1000 Growth Index. The underlying index represents approximately half of the total market cap of the Russell 1000 Index and gauges the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the United States equities universe by including those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.