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Certain BlackRock Sector Equity Closed-End Funds Announce Updates to Investment Objectives and Principal Investment Strategies

The BlackRock Sector Equity Closed End Funds (CEFs) listed below (the “Funds”) announced today that each Fund’s Board of Trustees (the "Board") has approved the following updates to the Funds’ respective investment objectives and principal investment strategies.

Effective 11/10/2025, the Funds’ investment objectives will be changed as indicated below.

Investment objective changes

BlackRock Sector CEFs

 

Ticker

 

Current Investment Objective

 

Proposed Investment Objective

BlackRock Resources and Commodities Strategy Trust

 

BCX

 

The Trust’s primary investment objective is to seek high current income and current gains, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation.

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income through a combination of current income and long-term capital appreciation.

BlackRock Energy and Resources Trust

 

BGR

 

The Trust’s investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation.

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income through a combination of current income and long-term capital appreciation.

BlackRock Utilities, Infrastructure and Power Opportunities Trust

 

BUI

 

The Trust’s investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation.

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income through a combination of current income and long-term capital appreciation.

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust

 

BME

 

The Trust’s investment objective is to provide total return through a combination of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation.

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income primarily through long-term capital appreciation.

BlackRock Health Sciences Term Trust

 

BMEZ

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income through a combination of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation.

 

The Trust’s investment objectives are to provide total return and income primarily through long-term capital appreciation.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust

 

BST

   

BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust

 

BSTZ

   

BlackRock Technology and Private Equity Term Trust

 

BTX

   

Investment strategy update

In addition to changing the Funds’ respective investment objectives, each Board also approved changing the Funds’ principal investment strategies to remove the options writing strategy. BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”), each Fund’s investment advisor, believes the removal of such strategy will better align the Funds’ principal investment strategies with shareholder interests and expectations for equity closed-end funds. In addition, BlackRock believes that removing the options writing strategy has the potential to allow each fund to capture more capital appreciation, with the goal of outperforming broad equity indices over a full cycle using the benefits of the closed-end fund structure. The Funds’ updated strategies could also potentially lead to greater distribution stability, improved trading and lower discounts.

About BlackRock

BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate.

Availability of Fund Updates

BlackRock will update performance and certain other data for each Fund on a monthly basis on its website in the “Closed-end Funds” section of www.blackrock.com as well as certain other material information as necessary from time to time. Investors and others are advised to check the website for updated performance information and the release of other material information about each Fund. This reference to BlackRock’s website is intended to allow investors public access to information regarding each Fund and does not, and is not intended to, incorporate BlackRock’s website in this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release, and other statements that BlackRock or a Fund may make, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect to the Fund’s or BlackRock’s future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as “trend,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “pipeline,” “believe,” “comfortable,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “current,” “intention,” “estimate,” “position,” “assume,” “outlook,” “continue,” “remain,” “maintain,” “sustain,” “seek,” “achieve,” and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or similar expressions.

BlackRock cautions that forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and BlackRock assumes no duty to and does not undertake to update forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements and future results could differ materially from historical performance.

With respect to the Funds, the following factors, among others, could cause actual events to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: (1) changes and volatility in political, economic or industry conditions, the interest rate environment, foreign exchange rates or financial and capital markets, which could result in changes in demand for a Fund or in a Fund’s net asset value; (2) the relative and absolute investment performance of a Fund and its investments; (3) the impact of increased competition; (4) the unfavorable resolution of any legal proceedings; (5) the extent and timing of any distributions or share repurchases; (6) the impact, extent and timing of technological changes; (7) the impact of legislative and regulatory actions and reforms, and regulatory, supervisory or enforcement actions of government agencies relating to a Fund or BlackRock, as applicable; (8) terrorist activities, international hostilities, health epidemics and/or pandemics and natural disasters, which may adversely affect the general economy, domestic and local financial and capital markets, specific industries or BlackRock; (9) BlackRock’s ability to attract and retain highly talented professionals; (10) the impact of BlackRock electing to provide support to its products from time to time; and (11) the impact of problems at other financial institutions or the failure or negative performance of products at other financial institutions.

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports and other regulatory filings of the Funds with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on BlackRock’s website at www.blackrock.com, and may discuss these or other factors that affect the Funds. The information contained on BlackRock’s website is not a part of this press release.

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