iShares MSCI ACWI SRI UCITS ETF

iShares MSCI ACWI SRI UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker SAWI (ISIN IE00013A2XD6). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. In plain terms it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't, spread broadly across markets worldwide. It follows the MSCI ACWI index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA CORP, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING and TESLA INC. With about 604 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 30%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. By geography it is weighted towards ~56% United States, ~6.8% Taiwan and ~6.2% Japan. By industry it concentrates most in ~31.7% Technology and ~17.6% Financials. Funds like this are commonly chosen by investors who want a regular cash income stream rather than reinvesting everything for growth. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.2% a year — about €20 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 0.49% (its trailing yield). It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in USD. Its price has swung about 13.2% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2022. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)