iShares U.S. Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate ETF

What this fund is

iShares U.S. Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IDGT (ISIN US4642875318). 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 listed property companies (REITs), which earn rent from buildings and usually pass much of it on to investors, spread across its target market.

It is typically held as a diversifier — a slice that behaves differently from mainstream shares — rather than as a portfolio's main engine. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.39% a year — about €39 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication). Its price has swung about 21.8% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good.

It launched in 2001. 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 iShares.)