Invesco MSCI Japan Universal Screened UCITS ETF Acc

Invesco MSCI Japan Universal Screened UCITS ETF Acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Invesco, traded under the ticker ESGJ (ISIN IE00BMDBMV87). 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 across its target market. It follows the MSCI Japan Universal Select Business Screens Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include TOKYO ELECTRON LTD NPV, SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GR NPV and HITACHI LTD NPV. With about 166 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 31.5%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. By geography it is weighted towards ~99.9% Japan. By industry it concentrates most in ~24.1% Industrials and ~20.4% 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 0.15% a year — about €15 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund; counting the trading costs inside the fund, the all-in figure is around 0.19%. Income such as dividends is automatically reinvested inside the fund (an accumulating share class), so returns compound without you doing anything. 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. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 5 out of 7 and its price has swung about 19.5% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2021, and its KID suggests a holding period of 5 years. 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 Invesco.)