UBS MSCI Japan Socially Responsible UCITS ETF JPY acc

UBS MSCI Japan Socially Responsible UCITS ETF JPY acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker JPSO (ISIN LU1230563022). 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 across its target market. It passively tracks the MSCI Japan index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include TOKYO ELECTRON LTD, RECRUIT HOLDINGS CO LTD and SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GR. By geography it is weighted towards ~48.5% Japan. Its heaviest sectors are ~14.4% Industrials and ~11.6% Technology. 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 0.19% a year — about €19 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. 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 Luxembourg and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in JPY. Its price has swung about 21% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2019. 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.)