iShares $ Asia Investment Grade Corp Bond UCITS ETF USD (Acc)

The Fund aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Fund's assets, which reflects the return of the iBoxx USD Asia ex-Japan Corporates Investment Grade ESG Screened Index, (the Index). The Fund, is passively managed and aims to invest in fixed income (FI) securities that make up the Index and comply with its credit rating requirements. If the credit ratings of the FI securities are downgraded, the Fund may continue to hold these until they cease to form part of the Index and it is practicable to sell the position. The Index aims to measure the performance of US Dollar denominated investment grade corporate bonds across the Asia ex-Japan region countries, as defined by the index provider and excludes issuers based on the index provider's ESG and other exclusionary criteria. Issuers involved in the following business lines/activities (or related activities) are excluded: civilian firearms, controversial weapons, thermal coal, oil sands and tobacco. The index provider defines what constitutes "involvement" in each restricted activity. The Index also excludes companies based on ESG principles which measure each issuer's involvement in severe ESG controversies and adherence to other practices as determined by the index provider. To be eligible for inclusion in the Index the bonds must (i) be USD denominated; (ii) have a time to maturity of at least 18 months at issuance; (iii) have a minimum of one year to maturity remaining; (iv) have a minimum outstanding amount of US$ 300 million; and (v) be rated investment grade. The Index uses a market-value weighted methodology with a cap on each issuer of 4% and is rebalanced on a monthly basis. The Fund uses optimising techniques to achieve a similar return to its Index. These may include the strategic selection of certain securities that make up the Index or other FI securities which provide similar performance to certain constituent securities. These may also include

Physical replication

PIR compliant

No

PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No