iShares MSCI World Quality Factor Advanced 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 MSCI World Quality Advanced Select index (the Index). The Fund, is passively managed and aims to invest in equity securities (e.g. shares) that make up the Index. The Index aims to reflect the performance of a sub-set of equity securities within the MSCI World Index (Parent Index) with targeted exposure to the quality factor, subject to certain optimisation constraints, including carbon reduction and environmental, social and governance (ESG) score improvement relative to the Parent Index. Companies involved in controversial and nuclear weapons, civilian firearms, thermal coal, tobacco or oil sands, classified as violating the United Nations Global Compact principles, or with a 'Red' MSCI ESG Controversies score, are excluded. The Fund may have limited exposure to securities considered not to meet these ESG criteria. The remaining companies are selected using an optimisation methodology which seeks to maximise the exposure of the Index to the quality factor, and to improve the ESG score and reduce carbon exposure compared to the Parent Index. The quality factor is assessed using a quality score based on three main equally weighted indicators of whether a company is demonstrating high quality characteristics: high percentage of company earnings allocated to shareholders, low levels of debt and low year on year earnings variability The Fund intends to replicate the Index by holding the equity securities, which make up the Index, in similar proportions to it. The Fund may use financial derivative instruments (FDIs) (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets) to help achieve the Fund's investment objective. FDIs may be used for direct investment purposes. The Fund will adopt a binding and significant approach to sustainable investing. The Fund may also engage in short-term se

Physical replication

PIR compliant

No

PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No