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UBS Core MSCI Japan UCITS ETF hGBP dis

UBS · LU1169822340

UBS Core MSCI Japan UCITS ETF hGBP dis is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker UB0D (ISIN LU1169822340). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. In plain terms it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth…

· Tracks the MSCI Japan index ?
Equity ?Distributing ?Physical ?LU ?
Low yearly feePays cash dividendsOwns the shares directlyJapan
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Fund size (AUM) ?
€1.6T
1-year return ?
+42.9%
Total return · to 2026-08-14
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.15%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The MSCI Japan index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 10 companies across Japan in a single purchase.

Dividends

The fund pays dividends out to you as cash, usually a few times a year.

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You get the dividends as cash you can spend or move elsewhere, which some people like for a sense of income. If you would rather it compounded, you buy more units yourself — it will not reinvest on its own the way an accumulating version does. The same fund is often sold in both versions; what it holds underneath is identical.

How it works

The fund actually buys every share in the index it tracks (full replication).

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Owning every holding keeps things transparent — what is in the index is what the fund actually owns. It can be a touch costlier to run for indexes with thousands of tiny positions, since the fund has to buy and maintain them all. There is no swap bank involved, so there is no extra “what if the partner fails” question to weigh.

Cost

0.15%Yearly fee (TER)
0.00%All-in cost

The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. Lower is cheaper.

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For example, a 0.20% fee works out at €0.20 a year for every €100 invested — that’s a generic illustration of the mechanic, not this fund’s own fee. It is skimmed quietly from inside the fund a little each day, so you never get a bill — but it drags on your return every year you hold. On a broad index ETF it is usually a small fraction of a percent; the gap between a cheap and a pricey fund looks tiny on day one but compounds over decades, which is why it is worth a glance.

Fund facts

Index tracked ?
MSCI Japan
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Regulation ?
UCITS
Yes
Launched
2017
9-year track record

Performance

93.797.7102106110202320232024

Growth of £100 invested — both lines start at £100.

UBS Core MSCI Japan UCITS ETF hGBP dis Average MSCI Japan ETF (funds we track) ?

Compared with the average fund tracking the same index — our own data, not the licensed index itself.

YTD+25.2%
1 year+42.9%
3 years+28.1%
5 years+20.4%

Return, year by year

-6.1
+32.1
+22.5
+27.8
'22'23'24'25
3 of 4 up yearsBest: 2023 +32.1%Worst: 2022 -6.1%Calendar-year total returns, in GBP

How bumpy has it been?

20.6%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-22.0%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
1.36
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+151.9%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +19.8% a year.
+67.6%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-12.5%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-22.0%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 12 months.

Dividend history

This fund pays its dividends out to you (Quarterly). Recent payments per share:

Ex-dateAmount / share
2026-08-13CHF 0.2466
2026-02-09CHF 0.2013
2025-07-28CHF 0.2123
2025-02-06CHF 0.1669
2024-08-07CHF 0.1784
2024-02-01CHF 0.1028

What's inside

By sector ?

Cash/Other70.9%
Financials9.5%
Technology8.8%
Consumer Discretionary5.6%
Communication Services2.8%
Industrials2.5%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 29.7% of the fund.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GRO4.5%
2TOYOTA MOTOR CORP3.4%
3TOKYO ELECTRON LTD3.0%
4HITACHI LTD3.0%
5ADVANTEST CORP3.0%
6SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GR2.9%
7SONY GROUP CORP2.6%
8RECRUIT HOLDINGS CO LTD2.6%
9SOFTBANK GROUP CORP2.4%
10MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP INC2.4%

Where to buy this fund

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Where it trades

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CHF listings
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GBP listings
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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 80% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 60%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 50%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 0%📊 Beat its category by 4.6% (1-yr) (category average +38.2%)📊 Beat its category by 1.5% (3-yr) (category average +26.6%)📊 Behind its category by 1.3% (5-yr) (category average +21.6%)

Versus the Equity (stocks) · Japan · GBP ETFs we track.

Advanced risk

1.98
Sortino (3y) ?
1.28
Calmar (3y) ?
13.1%
Downside deviation ?
83%
Up months (hit rate) ?
£3,403.50
52-week high ?
£2,348.75
52-week low ?

Tilt vs a world tracker

United States-72.1
Cash/Other+70.9
Cash/Other+70.9
Japan+23.2
Technology-20.4
Health Care-9.3

Percentage points over / under a broad world-equity tracker (not a licensed benchmark).

Estimated fund flows

+€19.1B
Estimated net flow, last month

Estimated from fund-size changes.

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Data as of 2026-08-14 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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