iShares MSCI EM Latin America UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares MSCI EM Latin America UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker LAMT (ISIN IE000QZF7EX2). 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 follows the MSCI Emerging Markets index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include ISHARES MSCI BRAZIL UCITS ET USDHA, CIA VALE DO RIO DOCE SH and NU HOLDINGS CLASS A. It holds around 98 positions (the ten largest ≈ 43.9%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome.

Geographically it leans ~52.3% Brazil, ~25.5% Mexico and ~7.9% Germany. Its heaviest sectors are ~39.4% Financials and ~18.8% Materials. 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 0.2% a year — about €20 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. It launched in 2026. 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.)