iShares Digital Security UCITS ETF (Acc) (LOCK.L)
A single purchase quietly spreads your money across a focused global basket of companies protecting the digital world.
Is iShares Digital Security UCITS ETF (Acc) a good fund for a UK beginner?
The honest version: A single purchase quietly spreads your money across a focused global basket of companies protecting the digital world.
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 (Thematic) - not any single company's news. One share having a bad day barely shows up here.
What does iShares Digital Security UCITS ETF (Acc) do?
This fund tracks the STOXX Global Digital Security index, holding global companies involved in cybersecurity and digital-security products and services. When you make a single purchase, your money is spread across these various security businesses instead of relying on just one. The ongoing charge is 0.4% a year, which means approximately £4.00 a year is deducted for every £1,000 invested to cover running costs. Dividends are accumulating, meaning any money generated by the holdings is automatically reinvested inside the fund rather than paid out to you.
Holds global companies involved in cybersecurity and digital-security products and services; a focused single theme.
What's actually inside this fund?
Its 10 biggest holdings
- 1Palo Alto Networks Inc3.0%
- 2CrowdStrike Holdings Inc Class A2.7%
- 3Datadog Inc Class A2.6%
- 4Okta Inc Class A2.6%
- 5Zscaler Inc2.6%
- 6Rubrik Inc Class A Shares2.6%
- 7Ciena Corp2.6%
- 8Arista Networks Inc2.6%
- 9Fortinet Inc2.5%
- 10Dynatrace Inc Ordinary Shares2.5%
The top 10 add up to about 26% of the fund. The rest is spread thinly across the fund's many other holdings.
By sector
- Technology84%
- Industrials11%
- Real estate5%
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.
- Provides focused exposure to the cybersecurity and digital-security theme
- Spreads your money across a range of global companies in a single purchase
- Automatically reinvests dividends through its accumulating structure
- Clear, straightforward ongoing charge of 0.4% a year
- The fund's value will fall when the cybersecurity and digital-security markets fall
- Heavy concentration in technology, which makes up 84% of the fund
- Exposed to a single theme rather than the broader global economy
- Currency swings can affect UK investors because the underlying holdings are global
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How many points the write-up makes each way — a balance check, not a score or verdict.
- Provides focused exposure to the cybersecurity and digital-security theme
- Spreads your money across a range of global companies in a single purchase
- Automatically reinvests dividends through its accumulating structure
- Clear, straightforward ongoing charge of 0.4% a year
- The fund's value will fall when the cybersecurity and digital-security markets fall
- Heavy concentration in technology, which makes up 84% of the fund
- Exposed to a single theme rather than the broader global economy
- Currency swings can affect UK investors because the underlying holdings are global
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.