UBS EUR Ultra-Short Bond Screened UCITS ETF EUR acc

What this fund is

UBS EUR Ultra-Short Bond Screened UCITS ETF EUR acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker SHORT (ISIN IE000RW7V8Q4). 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 very short-term, cash-like instruments, aimed at protecting your money and earning a little interest rather than growing it, spread across its target market. Its largest holdings include DBR 0 08/15/26, OBL 0 10/09/26 and BKO 2.7 09/17/26. Geographically it leans ~26% Germany and ~3.2% Austria.

Its heaviest sectors are ~29.3% Government. Funds like this are often used as the steadier, lower-swing part of a portfolio — the ballast that cushions the ups and downs of shares. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.08% a year — about €8 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 0.3% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. 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 UBS.)