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iShares $ Asia Investment Grade Corp Bond UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker ASID (ISIN IE0007G78AC4). 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 lending to governments and companies in return for regular interest, which tends to be steadier than shares but grows more slowly, spread across its target market. It follows the iBoxx USD Asia ex-Japan Corporates Investment Grade ESG Screened Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include BLK ICS USD LEAF AGENCY DIST, CHINA TAIPING INSURANCE HOLDINGS C RegS and CHINA LIFE INSURANCE OVERSEAS CO L RegS. With about 500 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 6.9%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. Geographically it leans ~28.7% China, ~17.2% Korea (South) and ~14.2% Hong Kong. By industry it concentrates most in ~64.8% Corporate and ~34% Government. Funds like this are often used as the steadier, lower-swing part of a portfolio — the ballast that cushions the ups and downs of shares. 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 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. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 3 out of 7 and its price has swung about 4.4% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2021, and its KID suggests a holding period of medium to long term. 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.)