"iShares Nasdaq-100 UCITS ETF (DE)" is an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF). It refers to the Nasdaq 100 Index. This index reflects the development of 103 US American stocks and is therefore relatively well diversified. The ETF replicates its index using full physical replication, so it contains all the securities of its reference index. The ETF's earnings (dividends) are distributed to the investors. The fund company iShares claims a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.31% per year. The yearly average divergence from the index performance (Tracking Difference) since 2008 was -0.02% per year. Therefore, the ETF was less expensive than the TER suggests and even exceeded the index performance. However, the yearly tracking differences had strong variations, so their average value is not a very reliable measure.