UBS BBG Commodity Index SF UCITS ETF hEUR acc

What this fund is

UBS BBG Commodity Index SF UCITS ETF hEUR acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker 0Y2B (ISIN IE00B58ZM503). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. In plain terms it is about tracking physical commodities like gold or oil, which often move differently from shares and are used to spread risk or hedge inflation, spread across its target market. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the BBG Commodity Index index — the passive, low-cost approach.

It is typically held as a diversifier — a slice that behaves differently from mainstream shares — rather than as a portfolio's main engine. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.19% a year — about €19 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash. It tracks its index through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding (synthetic replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in EUR.

Its price has swung about 16.6% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2011. 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 UBS.)