The Australian ETF industry seems to be growing faster by the day, and one of the ETFs you might have your eye is the iShares S&P Europe ETF (ASX: IEU). In this article, we’ll provide a quick review of the IEU ETF.
1. Exposure
The iShares IEU ETF provides investors with a broad exposure to leading European companies. This is a low-cost way to access a variety of European companies through a single fund.
Investors might use the IEU ETF to gain exposure to European stocks, across 16 European markets. You could buy all of these companies yourself using a share brokerage account, but that would be a very expensive and time-consuming process.
2. Funds under management (FUM)
The iShares IEU ETF had $954.79 million of money invested when we last pulled the monthly numbers. Given IEU’s total funds under management (FUM) figure is over $100 million, the ETF has met our minimum criteria for the total amount of money invested, otherwise known as FUM. We draw the line at $100 million for ETFs in the International shares sector because we believe that relative to smaller ETFs, achieving this amount of FUM de-risks the ETF.
3. Management fees & costs matter
iShares charges investors a yearly management fee of 0.60% for the IEU ETF. This means that if you invested $2,000 in IEU for a full year, you could expect to pay management fees of around $12.00.
For context, the average management fee (MER) of all ETFs covered by Best ETFs Australia on our complete list of ASX ETFs is 0.51% or around $10.20 per $2,000 invested. Keep in mind, small changes in fees can make a big difference after 10 or 20 years.
What now?
These are just some of the considerations or factors you would need to consider when weighing up the IEU ETF. If you’re looking to do some further digging, be sure to read our iShares IEU report – it’s free. While you’re at it, don’t forget to search our complete list of ASX ETFs. You can filter the results according to sector, issuer, size, and more.