iShares Lithium & Battery Producers UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Lithium & Battery Producers UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker LITM (ISIN IE000WDG5795). 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. Its largest holdings include TDK CORP, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC LTD and ALBEMARLE CORP. Spread across roughly 78 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 68.8%), no one position makes or breaks the fund.

Its biggest country exposures are ~34.8% Japan, ~18.2% China and ~14.9% Korea (South). Its heaviest sectors are ~39.7% Materials and ~25.3% Industrials. 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 0.55% a year — about €55 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. Its price has swung about 35.3% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2023. 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.)