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£SWDA
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.
View fund£IEEM
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.
View fundKey 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 name
iShares Core MSCI World
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets
Share currency
GBP
GBP
Base currency
USD
USD
Use of income
Accumulating
Distributing
Fund size
£103bn
£7.4bn
Beta
1.00
1.00
Last price
£104.31
£47.67
Annual fund charges
0.20%
0.18%
Benchmark
MSCI World Index
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Risk
Ticker
£SWDA
£IEEM
Primary listing
LSE
LSE
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£SWDA
£IEEM
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
£SWDA
£IEEM
Top holdings
NVIDIA
6.14%
Apple
4.95%
Microsoft
3.34%
Amazon
2.85%
Alphabet Class A
2.59%
Broadcom
2.15%
Alphabet Class C
2.15%
Meta
1.50%
Tesla
1.34%
Other
72.99%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
14.45%
Samsung Electronics Ltd
6.97%
Sk Hynix Inc
5.39%
Tencent Holdings Ltd
3.04%
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
2.37%
Ishares Msci Brazil Ucits Et Usdha
1.50%
Mediatek Inc
1.29%
Delta Electronics Inc
1.05%
China Construction Bank Corp H
0.88%
Other
63.06%
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