UBS MSCI World UCITS ETF USD dis

UBS MSCI World UCITS ETF USD dis is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker UC55 (ISIN LU0340285161). 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. It follows the MSCI World index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include APPLE INC, NVIDIA CORP and MICROSOFT CORP. By geography it is weighted towards ~26% United States. By industry it concentrates most in ~16.4% Technology and ~5.7% Communication Services. Funds like this are commonly chosen by investors who want a regular cash income stream rather than reinvesting everything for growth. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.3% a year — about €30 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. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Luxembourg and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in USD. Its price has swung about 23.1% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2008. 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 UBS.)