Xtrackers MSCI World Small Cap UCITS ETF 1D

Xtrackers MSCI World Small Cap UCITS ETF 1D is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Xtrackers, traded under the ticker XSWD (ISIN IE000ISS8DB2). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. 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. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the MSCI World Small Cap index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include Xtrackers MSCI Europe Small Cap UCITS ETF 1C, SANDISK CORP and MKS. Spread across roughly 3317 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 12.1%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Geographically it leans ~60.5% United States, ~12.2% Japan and ~7.5% Luxembourg. Its heaviest sectors are ~18.2% Industrials and ~14.9% Technology. 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. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication). Its price has swung about 15.2% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. 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 Xtrackers.)