iShares MSCI USA Quality Dividend Advanced UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares MSCI USA Quality Dividend Advanced UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker QDIH (ISIN IE000PYHMXV4). 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 across its target market. It passively tracks the MSCI USA index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA CORP, APPLE INC and APPLIED MATERIAL INC. With about 101 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 33.2%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names.

Geographically it leans ~100% United States. Its heaviest sectors are ~40.7% Technology and ~14% Health Care. 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 0.38% a year — about €38 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).

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 GBP. Its price has swung about 11.8% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2025. 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.)