iShares Global Timber & Forestry UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Global Timber & Forestry UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker WOOD (ISIN IE00B27YCF74). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the materials 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 WEYERHAEUSER REIT, SUZANO SA and SMURFIT WESTROCK PLC.

Spread across roughly 41 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 56.6%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. By geography it is weighted towards ~27.2% United States, ~13.2% Brazil and ~12.1% Japan. By industry it concentrates most in ~83.4% Materials and ~11.9% Real Estate. 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 3.27% (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 17.5% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2007. 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.)