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This Fund's investment objective is to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The Index measures the performance of large and mid capitalisation stocks across emerging market countries which comply with MSCI's size, liquidity, and free-float criteria.
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The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Fund’s assets, which reflects the return of the S&P 500 GBP Hedged Index, the Fund’s benchmark index. The Index provides a return on the S&P 500, which measures the performance of large-cap stocks in the US market. Stocks are included in the Index based on a free-float market capitalisation-weighted basis. The Index also uses one-month foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge each non-Sterling currency in the Index back to Sterling. The Fund is passively managed and aims to invest in the stocks that make up the S&P 500, as well as foreign exchange forward contracts that track the Index’s hedging methodology. The Fund intends to replicate the Index by holding the stocks that make up the Index in similar proportions to it. The Fund may use financial derivative instruments to produce a similar return to the Index and may engage in short-term secured lending of its investments to generate additional income. The Fund’s base currency is Sterling and shares are accumulating.
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Key takeaways

These funds track different benchmarks: £IEEM follows the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, covering around 1,400 companies across 24 emerging-market countries, while £IGUS follows the S&P 500, covering 500 of the largest listed companies in the United States. They also differ in annual charges (£IEEM: 0.18%; £IGUS: 0.2%), distribution policy (£IEEM pays dividends to shareholders; £IGUS reinvests them), and fund size (£IEEM is larger). Both are GBP-denominated, managed by BlackRock, and trade on the London Stock Exchange.

Fund highlights

Fund comparison highlights
Fund name
iShares MSCI Emerging MarketsiShares S&P 500 GBP Hedged
GBP
GBP
USD
GBP
DistributingAccumulating
Fund size
£7.8B£1.2B
1.001.02
Last price
£49.10£178.92
0.18%0.20%
Fund manager
BlackRockBlackRock
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets IndexS&P 500
Risk
Ticker
£IEEM£IGUS
Primary listing
LSELSE
Documents
Costs disclosure document
Costs disclosure document
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.

Performance

CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment

Sector exposure

ChartTable
£IEEM
£IGUS

Top holdings

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

15.89%

Samsung Electronics Ltd

7.37%

Sk Hynix

5.58%

Tencent Holdings

2.68%

Alibaba Group Holding

1.85%

Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits Et Usdha

1.75%

Mediatek

1.71%

Delta Electronics

0.97%

Samsung Electronics Non Voting Pre

0.94%

Other

61.26%

NVIDIA

8.23%

Apple

7.28%

Microsoft

5.89%

Amazon

3.82%

Alphabet Class A

3.06%

Broadcom

2.55%

Alphabet Class C

2.45%

Meta

2.35%

Micron Technology

1.72%

Other

62.65%

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