Invesco MSCI World UCITS ETF Acc

What this fund is

Invesco MSCI World UCITS ETF Acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Invesco — a single investment you can buy in one trade that bundles many holdings together, so your money is spread out instead of riding on one company. It invests in company shares (also called stocks or equities), spread across companies all around the world. It aims to track the MSCI World Total Return (Net) Index index, which means its value moves roughly in line with that market instead of relying on a manager to pick winners — a hands-off style known as passive (or index) investing that typically keeps running costs down. In total it holds around 434 different positions, which spreads risk so no single holding decides your outcome. It does this through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding directly (called synthetic replication). Any income the holdings generate, such as dividends, is automatically reinvested inside the fund (an accumulating share class), which lets returns build up over time without you doing anything. Its ongoing charge is 0.05% a year — about €5 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. The fund is domiciled in Ireland and is UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results.