iShares MSCI Japan SRI UCITS ETF

iShares MSCI Japan SRI UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker CEME (ISIN IE000QWO5FT3). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one 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 follows the MSCI Japan index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include TOKYO ELECTRON LTD, SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP IN and RECRUIT HOLDINGS LTD. It holds around 46 positions (the ten largest ≈ 49.1%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Geographically it leans ~100% Japan. By industry it concentrates most in ~24.3% Industrials and ~18.2% Technology. 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 0.25% 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 EUR. Its price has swung about 19.4% 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.)