SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) (IMID.L)
Grab a massive slice of nearly nine thousand companies of all sizes spanning the entire globe in one single go.
Is SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) a good fund for a UK beginner?
The honest version: Grab a massive slice of nearly nine thousand companies of all sizes spanning the entire globe in one single go.
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 (Global) - not any single company's news. One share having a bad day barely shows up here.
What does SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI UCITS ETF (Acc) do?
This fund tracks the MSCI ACWI IMI index, wrapping roughly nine thousand large, medium, and small companies from all over the world into a single basket. By purchasing this fund, your money is automatically spread across global giants like NVIDIA, Apple, and Microsoft, alongside thousands of smaller businesses globally. The ongoing charge is 0.17% a year, which works out to about £1.70 annually for every £1,000 invested, taken automatically from the fund's value. It is an accumulating fund, meaning any dividends paid by the companies inside it are automatically reinvested rather than sent to your bank account.
Holds around nine thousand companies of every size from all over the world, one of the broadest single funds available.
What's actually inside this fund?
Despite the ‘global’ or ‘world’ name, about 62% of this fund is US companies - a world tracker is more of a US bet than it sounds. That's the shape of the market, not a choice the fund makes. (Approximate index weight.)
Its 10 biggest holdings
- 1NVIDIA Corp4.0%
- 2Apple Inc3.7%
- 3Microsoft Corp2.2%
- 4Amazon.com Inc2.0%
- 5Alphabet Inc Class A1.8%
- 6Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd1.7%
- 7Broadcom Inc1.5%
- 8Alphabet Inc Class C1.5%
- 9Micron Technology Inc1.1%
- 10Meta Platforms Inc Class A1.1%
The top 10 add up to about 21% of the fund. The rest is spread thinly across the fund's many other holdings.
By sector
- Technology31%
- Financials16%
- Industrials12%
- Consumer cyclical9%
- Healthcare8%
- Communications8%
- Consumer staples4%
- Materials4%
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.
- Extraordinarily broad diversification across thousands of companies worldwide
- Covers large, medium, and small businesses for a very complete global picture
- Low ongoing cost of 0.17% per year
- Dividends are automatically reinvested to help your pot grow
- The value will fall whenever global stock markets drop
- Significant weighting in a handful of giant technology companies
- Subject to currency fluctuations between British pounds and overseas currencies
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How many points the write-up makes each way — a balance check, not a score or verdict.
- Extraordinarily broad diversification across thousands of companies worldwide
- Covers large, medium, and small businesses for a very complete global picture
- Low ongoing cost of 0.17% per year
- Dividends are automatically reinvested to help your pot grow
- The value will fall whenever global stock markets drop
- Significant weighting in a handful of giant technology companies
- Subject to currency fluctuations between British pounds and overseas currencies
Built from public filings & market prices, checked for an education-only tone, and never a price target. How we make these →
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.