iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IUIS (ISIN IE00B4LN9N13). 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 industrials 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 S&P 500 index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include CATERPILLAR INC, GE AEROSPACE and GE VERNOVA INC.

Spread across roughly 86 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 40.8%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Geographically it leans ~100% United States. By industry it concentrates most in ~99.9% Industrials and ~0.1% Other. 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 0.15% a year — about €15 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 16.7% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2017. 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.)