"iShares J.P. Morgan USD EM Bond UCITS ETF USD (Dist)" is an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF). It refers to the JP Morgan EMBI Global Core Index. This index reflects the development of Emerging Marketsgovernment bonds . The ETF replicates its index using physical replication with sampling, so it contains the most important securities of its reference index. The ETF's earnings (interest payments) are distributed to the investors. The fund company iShares claims a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.45% per year. The yearly average divergence from the index performance (Tracking Difference) since 2009 was 0.47% per year. Therefore, the ETF was slightly more expensive than the TER suggests.