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£SEMA
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 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.
View fund£IWRD
The investment objective of this 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.
View fundKey takeaways
These funds track different benchmarks: £SEMA follows the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which includes about 1,400 companies from 24 emerging market countries, while £IWRD tracks the MSCI World Index, covering around 1,500 companies in 23 developed countries.
They also differ in annual fund charges (£SEMA: 0.18%, £IWRD: 0.5%) and distribution policy (£SEMA reinvests dividends as an accumulating fund, while £IWRD pays out dividends as a distributing fund). Both funds are managed by BlackRock and trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Fund highlights
Fund name
iShares MSCI EM
iShares MSCI World
Share currency
GBP
GBP
Base currency
USD
USD
Use of income
Accumulating
Distributing
Fund size
£6.4B
£6.5B
Beta
1.00
1.00
Last price
£44.21
£72.48
Annual fund charges
0.18%
0.50%
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
MSCI World Index
Risk
Ticker
£SEMA
£IWRD
Primary listing
LSE
LSE
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£SEMA
£IWRD
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
The “cumulative” calculation shows returns on a price basis (i.e. excluding dividends). If an instrument trades in a different currency from your home currency, currency fluctuations may affect returns.
Sector exposure
ChartTable
£SEMA
£IWRD
Top holdings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
13.90%
Samsung Electronics Ltd
5.74%
Ish Msci China A Etf Usd Acc
3.64%
Sk Hynix Inc
3.53%
Tencent Holdings Ltd
3.49%
Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits Et Usdha
2.41%
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
2.37%
Usd Cash
0.97%
Delta Electronics Inc
0.94%
Other
63.01%
NVIDIA
5.58%
Apple
4.44%
Microsoft
3.24%
Amazon
2.80%
Alphabet Class A
2.27%
Broadcom
2.00%
Alphabet Class C
1.88%
Meta
1.69%
Tesla
1.20%
Other
74.90%
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