UBS MSCI ACWI Universal UCITS ETF USD dis

What this fund is

UBS MSCI ACWI Universal UCITS ETF USD dis is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker AWESG (ISIN IE00BDQZMX67). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. 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 broadly across markets worldwide. It passively tracks the MSCI ACWI index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA CORP, APPLE INC and MICROSOFT CORP. By geography it is weighted towards ~18.4% United States, ~1.8% Taiwan and ~1% South Korea.

Its heaviest sectors are ~15.1% Technology and ~3.2% Communication Services. Funds like this are commonly chosen by investors who want a regular cash income stream rather than reinvesting everything for growth. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.23% a year — about €23 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. Income such as dividends is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class). 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 36.1% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2019. 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.)