iShares MSCI USA Screened UCITS ETF USD (Dist)

The Share Class is a share class of a Fund which aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Funds' assets, which reflects the return of the MSCI USA Screened Index, the Fund's benchmark index (Index). The Share Class, via the Fund is passively managed, and aims to invest in equity securities (e.g. shares) that, so far as possible and practicable, that make up the Index. The Index measures the performance of a sub-set of equity securities which are part of the MSCI USA Index (the "Parent Index") which excludes companies from the Parent Index based on the index provider's environmental, social and governance ("ESG") exclusionary criteria. The Index excludes companies from the Parent Index which are defined by the index provider as: being associated with controversial and nuclear weapons; producing tobacco or civilian firearms; or deriving their revenues from the following activities: thermal coal based power generation; the distribution, retail and supply of tobacco related products; the distribution of civilian firearms; or fossil fuel extraction; the production or distribution of palm oil; or the extraction of arctic oil and gas. Companies that are classified as violating United Nations Global Compact principles are also excluded from the Index. The remaining securities are then weighted by their free-float adjusted market capitalisation. The Index also excludes companies which do not meet the minimum MSCI ESG Controversy Score to be eligible for inclusion in the Index. Companies may be excluded in order for the Index to reach the level of the reduction of carbon emission intensity relative to the Parent Index set by the index provider. The Investment Manager will take into account the above ESG criteria only when selecting the securities to be held directly by the Fund. The Fund may also obtain indirect exposure to securities considered not to satisfy these ESG criteria. The Fund will adopt a binding and s

Physical replication

PIR compliant

No

PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No