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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 provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the MSCI World Index. The Index measures the performance of large and mid capitalisation stocks across Developed Market countries which comply with MSCI's size, liquidity, and free-float criteria.
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Key takeaways

These funds track different benchmarks: £SWDA follows the MSCI World Index, which includes about 1,500 companies from 23 developed countries, while £IEEM tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, comprising around 1,400 companies from 24 emerging market countries. They also differ in annual fund charges (£SWDA: 0.2%, £IEEM: 0.18%) and distribution policy (£SWDA reinvests dividends as an accumulating fund, while £IEEM pays out dividends as a distributing fund). £SWDA is significantly larger than £IEEM in fund size (£103.2 billion vs. £7.6 billion). Both funds are managed by BlackRock and trade on the London Stock Exchange.

Fund highlights

Fund comparison highlights
Fund name
iShares MSCI Emerging MarketsiShares Core MSCI World
GBP
GBP
USD
USD
DistributingAccumulating
Fund size
£7.8B£110B
1.001.00
Last price
£50.89£111.00
0.18%0.20%
Fund manager
BlackRockBlackRock
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets IndexMSCI World Index
Risk
Ticker
£IEEM£SWDA
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
£SWDA

Top holdings

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

15.34%

Samsung Electronics Ltd

7.40%

Sk Hynix

5.96%

Tencent Holdings

2.68%

Alibaba Group Holding

1.92%

Mediatek

1.82%

Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits (de) (ac

1.50%

Samsung Electronics Non Voting Pre

0.97%

Delta Electronics

0.92%

Other

61.49%

NVIDIA

5.68%

Apple

5.41%

Microsoft

3.84%

Amazon

2.72%

Alphabet Class A

2.26%

Alphabet Class C

1.78%

Broadcom

1.78%

Meta

1.77%

Micron Technology

1.28%

Other

73.48%

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