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AIAiShares Asia 50 ETF

Grow my money18y track recordRanked #434 of 2,999 in this goal

Tracks the investment results of the S&P Asia 50 TM Capped Index.

By iShares · Launched 2007

Annual Cost

0.50%

#2,667 of 5,861 · average

Fund Size

$5.2B

#435 of 5,861 · large

Return (1Y)Goal

+63.3%

Track Record

18 years

#537 of 5,861 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD
Growth of $10,000
$15,747+57.5%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

What's inside

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Equity

Cap

Large

Strategy

Index tracking

Index tracked

S&P Asia 50 Capped Index

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 62.6% of fundconcentrated

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
22.4%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12.7%
Tencent Holdings Limited
7.1%
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
4.4%
SK hynix Inc.
4.2%
AIA Group Limited
3.1%
CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION
2.7%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
2.2%
MediaTek Inc.
2.0%
HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
1.9%

Asset allocation

Stocks
99.7%
Cash
0.3%

By sector

Technology
63.1%
Financial Services
17.9%
Consumer Cyclical
8.0%
Communication
6.9%
Industrials
2.0%
Healthcare
0.8%
Real Estate
0.5%
Energy
0.5%
Other
0.4%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years
Volatility (1Y)
31.6%High

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown
-54.6%Severe

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)
1.06Strong risk-adjusted returns
Sortino (3Y)
1.55Good downside protection

Listing

Exchange
NASDAQ Global Select Market

Full fund details

Objective
Tracks the investment results of the S&P Asia 50 TM Capped Index.
Strategy
Invests primarily in large-capitalization equities from Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, using a representative sampling indexing strategy to track the S&P Asia 50 TM Capped Index. The Fund generally invests at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the Underlying Index.
Inception date
November 13, 2007
Fund family
iShares

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Data updated on 2026-08-04