iShares Global Infrastructure UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Global Infrastructure UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IDIN (ISIN IE00B1FZS467). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the utilities 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. Its largest holdings include NEXTERA ENERGY INC, UNION PACIFIC CORP and ENBRIDGE INC.

With about 301 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 32.7%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. By geography it is weighted towards ~63.9% United States, ~13.1% Canada and ~3.8% United Kingdom. By industry it concentrates most in ~55.5% Utilities and ~21.4% Industrials. 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 0.65% a year — about €65 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund.

It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 1.63% (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 21.2% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2006. 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.)