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Luxembourg·MSCI India Index (swap-based)·Trades in USDiA 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.
Luxembourg (LU)Answered from the same data and calculations used above.
The ISIN of Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C is LU0514695187. It trades in USD. The ISIN identifies the fund itself, so every exchange listing of this share class shares it.
Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) charges a total expense ratio of 0.19% a year, about $19 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 India equity (proxy: INDY), XCS5 lagged by -1.86% a year — that is the cost you actually bore, versus a headline TER of 0.19%. 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 — Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) 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.
Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) is domiciled in Luxembourg (LU). A Luxembourg-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.
Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) tracks the MSCI India Index (swap-based), holding 0 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.
Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) holds $604m 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 XCS5 showed annualised volatility of about 17.2% and a worst peak-to-trough fall of 27.4%. 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.
XCS5 returned 21.8% in total over the trailing five years, measured in USD. 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.
Xtrackers MSCI India Swap UCITS ETF 1C (XCS5) launched on 2010-06-24, giving it about 16 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.
