iShares Russell 1000 Value UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Russell 1000 Value UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker R1VL (ISIN IE0002EKOXU6). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one 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 across its target market. It follows the Russell 1000 index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include AMAZON.COM INC, APPLE INC and MICROSOFT CORP. Spread across roughly 852 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 27.9%), no one position makes or breaks the fund.

Geographically it leans ~99.7% United States, ~0.1% Canada and ~0.1% United Kingdom. By industry it concentrates most in ~19.3% Financials and ~18.3% Technology. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.18% a year — about €18 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash.

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 13.9% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2023. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)