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The investment objective of the Fund is to deliver the net total return performance of the Benchmark Index (being the S&P 500 Index), less the fees and expenses of the Fund. 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 fundThe 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: £CSP1 follows the S&P 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies in the United States, while £IWRD tracks the MSCI World Index, covering around 1,500 companies in 23 developed countries.
They also differ in annual fund charges (£CSP1: 0.07%, £IWRD: 0.5%) and distribution policy (£CSP1 reinvests dividends as an accumulating fund, while £IWRD pays out dividends as a distributing fund). Additionally, £CSP1 is significantly larger than £IWRD in fund size (£100.9 billion vs. £6.5 billion).
Both funds are managed by BlackRock and trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Fund highlights
Fund name | iShares Core S&P 500 | iShares MSCI World |
|---|---|---|
GBP | GBP | |
USD | USD | |
| Accumulating | Distributing | |
Fund size | £111bn | £6.9bn |
| 1.00 | 1.00 | |
Last price | £598.15 | £76.22 |
| 0.07% | 0.50% | |
Fund manager | BlackRock | BlackRock |
Benchmark | S&P 500 | MSCI World Index |
Risk | ||
Ticker | £CSP1 | £IWRD |
Primary listing | LSE | LSE |
Documents | £CSP1 Key Information Document | £IWRD Key Information Document |
Market data provided by CBOE Europe and Deutsche Börse.
Performance
CumulativeRolling yearsLump sum investment
£CSP1
£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
£CSP1
£IWRD
Top holdings
NVIDIA
7.75%
Apple
7.55%
Microsoft
4.59%
Amazon
3.77%
Alphabet Class A
3.20%
Broadcom
2.73%
Alphabet Class C
2.58%
Meta
2.25%
Tesla
1.70%
Other
63.88%
Apple
5.45%
NVIDIA
5.33%
Microsoft
3.15%
Amazon
2.69%
Alphabet Class A
2.30%
Broadcom
1.87%
Alphabet Class C
1.82%
Meta
1.63%
Tesla
1.22%
Other
74.54%
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