iShares Global Real Estate Environmental Tilt UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Global Real Estate Environmental Tilt UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker GRET (ISIN IE000PL3UFC3). 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 listed property companies (REITs), which earn rent from buildings and usually pass much of it on to investors, spread broadly across markets worldwide. Its largest holdings include WELLTOWER INC, PROLOGIS REIT INC and EQUINIX REIT INC. It holds around 343 positions (the ten largest ≈ 39.2%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome.

By geography it is weighted towards ~66.1% United States, ~8.3% Japan and ~5.6% Australia. Its heaviest sectors are ~98.2% Real Estate and ~0.7% Other. It is typically held as a diversifier — a slice that behaves differently from mainstream shares — rather than as a portfolio's main engine. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.18% a year — about €18 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. Income such as dividends is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class), and over the last year it paid out roughly 2.925908% (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 12.4% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2024. 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.)