iShares € High Yield Corp Bond UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares € High Yield Corp Bond UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker HIGH (ISIN IE00BF3N7094). 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 lending to governments and companies in return for regular interest, which tends to be steadier than shares but grows more slowly, spread across its target market. Its largest holdings include BLK LEAF FUND AGENCY ACC T0 EUR, COREWEAVE INC RegS and FIBERCOP SPA RegS. It holds around 676 positions (the ten largest ≈ 4.5%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome.

Geographically it leans ~18.9% France, ~16.1% Italy and ~14% United States. Its heaviest sectors are ~23.7% Consumer Discretionary and ~17.9% Industrials. Funds like this are often used as the steadier, lower-swing part of a portfolio — the ballast that cushions the ups and downs of shares. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.5% a year — about €50 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 and trades in EUR. It launched in 2017. 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.)