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The ISIN of iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc is DE000A2QP372. It trades in EUR. The ISIN identifies the fund itself, so every exchange listing of this share class shares it.
iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) charges a total expense ratio of 0.51% a year, about $51 a year on a $10,000 holding. The TER is deducted continuously from fund assets rather than billed to you, so it shows up as a drag on returns and never as a separate charge.
Measured against Europe equity (proxy: VGK), EXA1 lagged by -23.81% a year — that is the cost you actually bore, versus a headline TER of 0.51%. It trailed by LESS than its stated fee, so securities lending or tax treatment recovered part of the cost. This realised tracking difference is the honest number to compare funds on; the TER alone is not.
No — iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) is an accumulating share class, so dividends received from its holdings are reinvested inside the fund instead of being paid out. You realise that income as capital growth when you sell, which in many jurisdictions defers the tax event rather than triggering one each distribution.
iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) is domiciled in Germany (DE). Domicile decides the treaty rate applied to dividends the fund receives and whether the holding is exposed to US estate tax, so it affects your net return independently of the fund's fees.
iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) tracks the EURO STOXX Banks 30-15, holding 35 positions. Any fund tracking the same index gives you materially the same exposure, so cost, size and share class are usually what separate the alternatives, not the strategy.
iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) holds $181m in assets. Size matters mainly for liquidity and durability: larger funds tend to quote tighter spreads and are far less likely to be closed or merged away.
Over the measured window EXA1 showed annualised volatility of about 25.4% and a worst peak-to-trough fall of 33.9%. Volatility describes the size of a typical swing; the drawdown is what actually happened at the worst moment, and it is the number worth checking you could have held through.
iShares EURO STOXX Banks 30-15 UCITS ETF (DE) EUR Acc (EXA1) launched on 2021-12-03, giving it about 5 years of history. Note that a price series for one exchange listing can start later than the fund itself if the listing was added afterwards.