iShares € High Yield Corp Bond ESG SRI UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares € High Yield Corp Bond ESG SRI UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker EHYD (ISIN IE00BKLC5874). 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 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, STELLANTIS NV NC5.25 RegS and STELLANTIS NV NC8 RegS. Spread across roughly 350 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 8.3%), no one position makes or breaks the fund.

Geographically it leans ~25.8% France, ~16.8% United States and ~12.3% Italy. By industry it concentrates most in ~99.2% Corporate and ~1.1% Other. 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 0.25% a year — about €25 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), and over the last year it paid out roughly 3.66% (its trailing yield).

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. Its price has swung about 3.6% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2019. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)