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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 fundThe 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 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 World | iShares MSCI EM |
|---|---|---|
GBP | GBP | |
USD | USD | |
| Distributing | Accumulating | |
Fund size | £6.9bn | £7.1bn |
| 1.00 | 1.00 | |
Last price | £76.84 | £45.92 |
| 0.50% | 0.18% | |
Fund manager | BlackRock | BlackRock |
Benchmark | MSCI World Index | MSCI Emerging Markets Index |
Risk | ||
Ticker | £IWRD | £SEMA |
Primary listing | LSE | LSE |
Documents | £IWRD Key Information Document | £SEMA Key Information Document |
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£IWRD
£SEMA
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
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£IWRD
£SEMA
Top holdings
NVIDIA
5.44%
Apple
5.14%
Microsoft
3.02%
Amazon
2.66%
Alphabet Class A
2.33%
Broadcom
1.94%
Alphabet Class C
1.83%
Meta
1.62%
Tesla
1.24%
Other
74.78%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
15.52%
Samsung Electronics Ltd
6.89%
Sk Hynix Inc
5.92%
Ish Msci China A Etf Usd Acc
3.74%
Tencent Holdings Ltd
3.00%
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
1.98%
Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits Et Usdha
1.97%
Mediatek Inc
1.39%
Delta Electronics Inc
0.94%
Other
58.65%
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