iShares Core MSCI EM IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) (EIMI.L)
This single fund hands you a broad slice of roughly 3,000 developing-market companies of all sizes across places like China, India, Taiwan, and Brazil.
Is iShares Core MSCI EM IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) a good fund for a UK beginner?
The honest version: This single fund hands you a broad slice of roughly 3,000 developing-market companies of all sizes across places like China, India, Taiwan, and Brazil.
Over about 2 years to 2026-07-15. This already includes the fund's dividends, which an accumulating fund reinvests for you. And it's the USD return - as a UK investor your actual £ return also moves with the exchange rate. Past performance is not a guide to the future, and it could just as easily have fallen.
This is a fund, so it moves with its whole basket (Emerging) - not any single company's news. One share having a bad day barely shows up here.
What does iShares Core MSCI EM IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) do?
This fund tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets IMI index, letting you spread your money across thousands of firms globally with one simple purchase. The ongoing charge is 0.18% a year, which means roughly £1.80 a year for every £1,000 invested. It is an accumulating fund, meaning any dividends are automatically reinvested inside the fund rather than paid out to you. Its largest holdings include tech giants like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics.
Holds around 3,000 companies of all sizes across emerging markets such as China, India, Taiwan and Brazil, reinvesting the dividends.
What's actually inside this fund?
Its 10 biggest holdings
- 1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd13.2%
- 2Samsung Electronics Co Ltd7.1%
- 3SK Hynix Inc6.7%
- 4Tencent Holdings Ltd2.4%
- 5Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares1.4%
- 6MediaTek Inc1.4%
- 7Delta Electronics Inc0.9%
- 8Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Participating Preferred0.8%
- 9SK Square0.7%
- 10Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd0.7%
The top 10 add up to about 35% of the fund. The rest is spread thinly across the fund's many other holdings.
By sector
- Technology44%
- Financials17%
- Consumer cyclical8%
- Industrials8%
- Materials6%
- Communications6%
- Healthcare3%
- Energy3%
Top holdings and sector split from the fund's published data as of the figures date - they drift over time as the fund and the index change.
- Very broad diversification across thousands of emerging market companies
- Low ongoing cost for an emerging markets fund
- Simple one-fund exposure to fast-developing economies
- Dividends are automatically reinvested to help your pot grow
- It falls when its underlying markets fall
- Heavy concentration in a few giant technology companies
- Currency swings for a UK investor
- Emerging markets can experience higher volatility than developed regions
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What are the pros and cons of iShares Core MSCI EM IMI UCITS ETF (Acc)?
How many points the write-up makes each way — a balance check, not a score or verdict.
- Very broad diversification across thousands of emerging market companies
- Low ongoing cost for an emerging markets fund
- Simple one-fund exposure to fast-developing economies
- Dividends are automatically reinvested to help your pot grow
- It falls when its underlying markets fall
- Heavy concentration in a few giant technology companies
- Currency swings for a UK investor
- Emerging markets can experience higher volatility than developed regions
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This plain-English summary was auto-generated on 2026-08-01 from public data and checked for an education-only, no-advice tone (the figures above carry their own, usually fresher, 'as of' date). It's information, never a recommendation.