iShares MSCI World Value Factor Advanced UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares MSCI World Value Factor Advanced UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker CBUI (ISIN IE000H1H16W5). 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 World Value index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC, NVIDIA CORP and APPLE INC. With about 294 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 23.2%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names.

Its biggest country exposures are ~66.8% United States, ~10.4% Japan and ~6.7% France. Its heaviest sectors are ~29.2% Technology and ~22.1% Financials. Investors often use a broad fund like this as a long-term 'core' holding — a single building block that covers much of a global portfolio in one trade. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.25% a year — about €25 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. Income such as dividends is automatically reinvested inside the fund (an accumulating share class), so returns compound without you doing anything.

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 — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2021. 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.)