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Ireland·UK equities – AlphaDEX rules-based·Trades in GBPiA live newsflow desk — the headlines moving a fund and its benchmark, shown next to the performance chart so you can see what drove a move without leaving the page. It is coming soon, once a licensed news feed is in place.
Ireland (IE)Answered from the same data and calculations used above.
The ISIN of First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF is IE00B8X9NZ57. It trades in GBP. The ISIN identifies the fund itself, so every exchange listing of this share class shares it.
First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF (FKU) charges a total expense ratio of 0.75% a year, about $75 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 UK equity (proxy: ISF), FKU lagged by 2.77% a year — that is the cost you actually bore, versus a headline TER of 0.75%. It trailed by MORE than its stated fee, so trading costs, cash drag or withholding tax added to what the TER implies. This realised tracking difference is the honest number to compare funds on; the TER alone is not.
First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF (FKU) is domiciled in Ireland (IE). A Ireland-domiciled UCITS fund receives US dividends at a 15% treaty withholding rate inside the fund, versus the 30% statutory rate on dividends paid directly to a non-resident (generally 25% for an Indian resident under the India-US treaty with a valid W-8BEN). The fund-level 15% is deducted before NAV and is not reclaimable by you. Its shares also sit outside US estate tax, which applies to US-situs assets above $60,000 for non-resident aliens.
First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF (FKU) tracks the UK equities – AlphaDEX rules-based, holding 76 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.
First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF (FKU) holds $8m 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 FKU showed annualised volatility of about 15.0% and a worst peak-to-trough fall of 27.0%. 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.
FKU returned 59.9% in total over the trailing five years, measured in GBP. Past performance describes what the index did, not what it will do, and for an index tracker it is mostly a statement about the market rather than about the manager.
First Trust United Kingdom AlphaDEX UCITS ETF (FKU) launched on 2013-04-09, giving it about 13 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.
