iShares MSCI EM ex-China UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares MSCI EM ex-China UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker EXCD (ISIN IE000W8RYVC0). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the technology part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, 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. It passively tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS LTD and SK HYNIX INC.

It holds around 609 positions (the ten largest ≈ 48.9%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Its biggest country exposures are ~34.3% Taiwan, ~28.1% Korea (South) and ~13.9% India. By industry it concentrates most in ~51.7% Technology and ~21.3% Financials. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding. 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 1.260298% (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 24.5% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2024. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)