UBS MSCI ACWI SF UCITS ETF hUSD acc

What this fund is

UBS MSCI ACWI SF UCITS ETF hUSD acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker 0Y7U (ISIN IE00BYM11J43). 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 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. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the MSCI ACWI SF index — the passive, low-cost approach.

Investors often use a broad fund like this as a long-term 'core' holding — a single building block that covers much of a global portfolio in one trade. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.21% a year — about €21 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 tracks its index through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding (synthetic 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 12.1% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2015. 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 UBS.)