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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£IUSA
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 S&P 500. The Index measures the performance of 500 stocks from top US companies in leading industries of the US economy which comply with S&Ps size, liquidity and free-float criteria.
View fundKey takeaways
These funds track different benchmarks: £SEMA follows the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which includes approximately 1,400 companies from 24 emerging market countries, while £IUSA tracks the S&P 500, comprising 500 of the largest listed companies in the United States. They also differ in annual fund charges (£SEMA: 0.18%, £IUSA: 0.07%) and distribution policy (£SEMA reinvests dividends as an accumulating fund, while £IUSA pays out dividends as a distributing fund). Both funds are managed by BlackRock, trade on the London Stock Exchange, and have their share currency in GBP.
Fund highlights
Fund name
iShares MSCI EM
iShares Core S&P 500
Share currency
GBP
GBP
Base currency
USD
USD
Use of income
Accumulating
Distributing
Fund size
£7.2bn
£16bn
Beta
1.00
1.00
Last price
£46.99
£54.51
Annual fund charges
0.18%
0.07%
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
S&P 500
Risk
Ticker
£SEMA
£IUSA
Primary listing
LSE
LSE
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£SEMA
£IUSA
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
£IUSA
Top holdings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
14.57%
Samsung Electronics Ltd
8.08%
Sk Hynix Inc
6.56%
Ish Msci China A Etf Usd Acc
3.57%
Tencent Holdings Ltd
2.89%
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
2.03%
Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits Et Usdha
1.78%
Mediatek Inc
1.66%
Delta Electronics Inc
1.21%
Other
57.65%
NVIDIA
7.97%
Apple
6.72%
Microsoft
4.72%
Amazon
3.76%
Alphabet Class A
3.37%
Broadcom
2.93%
Alphabet Class C
2.70%
Meta
2.02%
Tesla
1.76%
Other
64.05%
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