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iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility

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ETF description

The iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ETF aims to provide global equity exposure with a focus on minimizing volatility. By tracking the MSCI World Minimum Volatility index, this ETF invests in a diversified portfolio of international stocks that exhibit lower overall risk. It targets companies across developed markets that have historically shown lower volatility relative to the broader equity market. This ETF is designed for investors seeking to participate in global equity markets while reducing the impact of market fluctuations, making it a suitable choice for risk‑averse investors looking for smoother returns over time.

Issuer details

iShares ETFs are issued and managed by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company.

With 800+ products globally and over $2trn in assets (as at June 2024), iShares ETFs are a flexible, low‑cost way for investors to gain exposure to various market segments, including fixed income, emerging markets and broad‑based indexes.

Index details

The Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility index provides targeted exposure to global equities while focusing on minimizing volatility. By selecting stocks with lower price fluctuations from a broad universe of developed market countries, this index aims to offer a smoother investment experience with reduced risk. Its emphasis on minimizing volatility within a global context makes it a valuable addition for portfolios seeking to balance growth potential with stability in international equity markets.

Key information

Key investor information

ETF Breakdown

Region
Sector
T‑Mobile US Inc
1.5%
Deutsche Telekom AG
1.5%
Motorola Solutions Inc
1.5%
Walmart Inc
1.4%
Roper Technologies Inc
1.4%
Mckesson Corporation
1.3%
Republic Services, Inc.
1.3%
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1.3%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
1.2%
Merck & Co Inc
1.1%
Procter & Gamble Co.
1.1%
Southern Company
1.1%
PepsiCo Inc
1.1%
McDonald`s Corp
1.1%
SoftBank Corp.
1.1%
Verizon Communications Inc
1.1%
Johnson & Johnson
1.0%
Waste Management, Inc.
1.0%
Progressive Corp.
1.0%
Swiss Re Ltd
1.0%
Amerisource Bergen Corp.
1.0%
KDDI Corp.
1.0%
Unitedhealth Group Inc
1.0%
International Business Machines Corp.
1.0%
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc
1.0%
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
0.9%
Novartis AG
0.9%
Chubb Limited
0.9%
Microsoft Corporation
0.9%
Sap SE
0.9%
Duke Energy Corp.
0.9%
Canon Inc.
0.8%
AT&T, Inc.
0.8%
Autozone Inc.
0.8%
Godaddy Inc
0.8%
Northrop Grumman Corp.
0.8%
Abbvie Inc
0.8%
General Mills, Inc.
0.8%
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
0.8%
Waste Connections
0.8%
Kroger Co.
0.7%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
0.7%
Visa
0.7%
Travelers Companies Inc.
0.7%
Accenture plc
0.6%
CGI Inc
0.6%
O`Reilly Automotive, Inc.
0.6%
Kellogg Co
0.6%
Teledyne Technologies Inc
0.6%
Cboe Global Markets Inc.
0.6%
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
0.6%
Zurich Insurance Group AG Ltd
0.6%
Intact Financial Corp
0.6%
Electronic Arts, Inc.
0.5%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
0.5%
Tyler Technologies, Inc.
0.5%
Industria De Diseno Textil SA
0.5%
Telefonica S.A
0.5%
WEC Energy Group Inc
0.5%
Colgate‑Palmolive Co.
0.5%
Fujifilm Holdings Corp.
0.5%
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
0.5%
Orange.
0.5%
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
0.5%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
0.5%
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co
0.5%
Tyson Foods, Inc.
0.5%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
0.5%
Arch Capital Group Ltd
0.5%
Yum Brands Inc.
0.5%
Mondelez International Inc.
0.5%
Kraft Heinz Co
0.5%
Singapore Telecommunications Limited
0.5%
Thomson Reuters Corp.
0.5%
Williams Companies
0.5%
AllState
0.5%
Amphenol Corp.
0.5%
Verisign Inc.
0.5%
Constellation Software Inc
0.5%
Loews Corp.
0.5%
Aon
0.4%
CME Group Inc
0.4%
Central Japan Railway Co
0.4%
F5 Networks Inc
0.4%
Ferrari N.V.
0.4%
Sampo Oyj
0.4%
Swisscom AG
0.4%
Check Point Software Technolgies
0.4%
Lilly
0.4%
ServiceNow Inc
0.4%
W. R. Berkley Corp
0.4%
Elevance Health Inc
0.4%
Koninklijke KPN NV
0.4%
Sanofi
0.4%
argenx SE
0.4%
Brown & Brown, Inc.
0.4%
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
0.4%
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.
0.4%
TJX Companies, Inc.
0.4%
Coca‑Cola Co
0.3%
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc
0.3%
Kyocera
0.3%
Fair, Isaac Corp.
0.3%
Incyte Corp.
0.3%
Juniper Networks Inc
0.3%
United Therapeutics Corp
0.3%
Akamai Technologies Inc
0.3%
CF Industries Holdings Inc
0.3%
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
0.3%
UCB SA
0.3%
Compass Group Plc
0.3%
Hershey Company
0.3%
Liberty Formula One Group Registered Shs Series ‑C‑ Formula One
0.3%
Markel Corp
0.3%
Secom Co. Ltd.
0.3%
Bristol‑Myers Squibb Co.
0.3%
Caixabank
0.3%
NEC
0.3%
Obic Co. Ltd.
0.3%
Oracle Corp.
0.3%
PG&E Corp.
0.3%
DBS Group Holdings Ltd
0.3%
CLP Holdings Ltd.
0.3%
Descartes Systems Group Inc
0.3%
East Japan Railway Company
0.3%
Kimberly‑Clark Corp.
0.3%
Hormel Foods Corp.
0.3%
Quest Diagnostics, Inc.
0.3%
Welltower Inc
0.3%
Abbott Laboratories
0.3%
Boston Scientific Corp.
0.3%
Power Assets Holdings Limited
0.3%
Targa Resources Corp
0.3%
Dollarama Inc
0.3%
Marathon Petroleum Corp
0.3%
Willis Towers Watson
0.3%
Cigna Group (The)
0.2%
Gartner, Inc.
0.2%
Campbell Soup Co.
0.2%
First Citizens BancShares Inc (Delaware)
0.2%
Nestle SA
0.2%
Nomura Research Institute Ltd.
0.2%
AMGEN Inc.
0.2%
Chevron USA Inc
0.2%
NortonLifeLock Inc
0.2%
Osaka Gas Co. Ltd.
0.2%
PTC Inc
0.2%
Sgs Sa
0.2%
Ameren Corp.
0.2%
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp
0.2%
Fairfax Financial Holdings, Ltd.
0.2%
Singapore Exchange Limited
0.2%
AIB Group Plc
0.2%
Air Liquide S.A
0.2%
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd
0.2%
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
0.2%
Otsuka Holdings Co Ltd
0.2%
Scout24 SE
0.2%
Amcor Plc
0.2%
Assurant Inc
0.2%
Chubu Electric Power Co Inc
0.2%
Shimadzu Corporation
0.2%
Texas Instruments Inc.
0.2%
TotalEnergies SE
0.2%
Aena S.M.E. S.A.
0.2%
Cardinal Health, Inc.
0.2%
Dynatrace Inc
0.2%
Elisa Oyj
0.2%
General Dynamics Corp.
0.2%
J M Smucker Co
0.2%
Schindler Holding AG
0.2%
Astellas Pharma Inc.
0.2%
Diamondback Energy Inc
0.2%
Dominos Pizza Inc
0.2%
MercadoLibre Inc
0.2%
Ricoh Company Ltd
0.2%
Xcel Energy, Inc.
0.2%
Zoom Video Communications Inc
0.2%
Eni Spa
0.2%
Erie Indemnity Co.
0.2%
Otsuka Corp.
0.2%
Vodafone Group plc
0.2%
Fortinet Inc
0.1%
Givaudan SA
0.1%
Hong Kong and China Gas Co Ltd
0.1%
Hydro One Ltd
0.1%
Inpex
0.1%
Rollins, Inc.
0.1%
Seiko Epson Corp
0.1%
TIS Inc
0.1%
Ems‑Chemie Holding AG
0.1%
Hologic, Inc.
0.1%
Infratil Ltd
0.1%
Phillips 66
0.1%
Toho Gas Co. Ltd.
0.1%
Twenty‑First Century Fox
0.1%
Yokogawa Electric Corporation
0.1%
Apple Inc
0.1%
Fujitsu Limited
0.1%
HKT Trust and HKT Ltd
0.1%
Humana Inc.
0.1%
Japan Post Bank Co Ltd.
0.1%
Bank Hapoalim B.M.
0.1%
Becton, Dickinson And Co.
0.1%
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
0.1%
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.
0.1%
Logitech International S.A.
0.1%
Bank Leumi Le‑ Israel B.M.
0.1%
Brother Industries Ltd
0.1%
CMS Energy Corporation
0.1%
Fiserv, Inc.
0.1%
Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.
0.1%
Pan Pacific International Holdings Corp
0.1%
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
0.1%
Workday Inc
0.1%
American Electric Power Company Inc.
0.1%
BKW AG
0.1%
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
0.1%
Linde Plc
0.1%
McDonald`s Holdings Co. (Japan) Ltd.
0.1%
Novo Nordisk As Class B
0.1%
Oracle Corporation Japan
0.1%
SITC International Holdings Company Limited
0.1%
Tryg AS
0.1%
Aspen Technology Inc.
< 0.1%
Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
< 0.1%
Infrastructure Wireless Italiana S.p.A.
< 0.1%
Oversea‑Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
< 0.1%
SCSK Corp
< 0.1%
SG Holdings
< 0.1%
Telia Company AB
< 0.1%
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise.
< 0.1%
CDW Corp
< 0.1%
Conagra Brands Inc
< 0.1%
DSM‑Firmenich AG
< 0.1%
Helvetia Holding AG
< 0.1%
Kuehne und Nagel International
< 0.1%
Arista Networks Inc
< 0.1%
Bridgestone Corporation
< 0.1%
Cheniere Energy Inc.
< 0.1%
Dominion Energy Inc
< 0.1%
Inpost S.A
< 0.1%
Nutanix Inc
< 0.1%
Pfizer Inc.
< 0.1%
Roche Holding AG
< 0.1%
Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd.
< 0.1%
Wolters Kluwers NV
< 0.1%
Deutsche Boerse AG
< 0.1%
Galp Energia Sgps
< 0.1%
Grab Holdings Ltd
< 0.1%
Mastercard Incorporated
< 0.1%
NTT Data Corporation
< 0.1%
Sodexo
< 0.1%
Union Pacific Corp.
< 0.1%
Vivendi SE
< 0.1%
Alliant Energy Corp.
< 0.1%
BP plc
< 0.1%
Corteva Inc
< 0.1%
Dentsu Group Inc
< 0.1%
DoorDash Inc
< 0.1%
Imperial Oil Ltd.
< 0.1%
Kao
< 0.1%
MTR
< 0.1%
Newmont Corp
< 0.1%
Nokia
< 0.1%
Omron
< 0.1%
Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd
< 0.1%
Telus Corp.
< 0.1%
West Japan Railway Company
< 0.1%
Nordea Bank Abp
< 0.1%
Unicredit Spa
< 0.1%
Others
0.4%
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