iShares S&P 500 Health Care Sector UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares S&P 500 Health Care Sector UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IUHE (ISIN IE00BMBKBZ46). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the health care part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, 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. It passively tracks the S&P 500 index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include ELI LILLY, JOHNSON & JOHNSON and ABBVIE INC.

Spread across roughly 66 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 61.4%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Its biggest country exposures are ~100% United States, ~0% Ireland and ~0% United Kingdom. By industry it concentrates most in ~99.8% Health Care and ~0.2% Other. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.18% a year — about €18 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund.

It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 0.92% (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 15.4% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2020. 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.)