iShares MSCI Japan USD Hedged UCITS ETF (Acc)

iShares MSCI Japan USD Hedged UCITS ETF (Acc) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IJPD (ISIN IE00BCLWRG39). 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 owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't, spread across its target market. It passively tracks the MSCI Japan index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include BLK ICS USD LIQ AGENCY DIS, MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC and TOKYO ELECTRON LTD. With about 180 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 32.4%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. Geographically it leans ~99.3% Japan and ~5.5% United States. Its heaviest sectors are ~23.1% Industrials and ~20.8% Technology. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.64% a year — about €64 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 holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors, trades in USD and is currency-hedged against exchange-rate swings. Its price has swung about 30.5% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2013. 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.)