AIA — iShares Asia 50 ETF
Data updated: 2026-08-24
AIA — iShares Asia 50 ETF. 0.50% expense ratio · since 2007 · Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity · $5.22B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
AIA Fund Overview
AIA — iShares Asia 50 ETF is a US ETF managed by iSHARES TRUST, categorised as Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: iSHARES TRUST
- Category: Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $5.22B
- 1-year return: 80.3%
- Ticker: AIA
- SEC CIK: 0001100663
- SEC series ID: S000017778
- Share class ID: C000049095
AIA Investment Objective and Strategy
iShares Asia 50 ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by iSHARES TRUST.
Investment objective
The iShares Asia 50 ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of 50 of the largest Asian equities.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the S&P Asia 50 TM (the Underlying Index), which is a total float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the performance of the 50 leading companies listed in four Asian countries or regions: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, as determined by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (the Index Provider or SPDJI). As of March 31, 2018, the Underlying Index had a total market capitalization of approximately $2.41 trillion. The Underlying Index includes large-capitalization blue-chip companies. As of March 31, 2018, a significant portion of the Underlying Index is represented by securities of companies in the financials and information technology industries or sectors. The components of the Underlying Index are likely to change over time.
BFA uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Funds investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to beat the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. Indexing may eliminate the chance that the Fund will substantially outperform the Underlying Index but also may reduce some of the risks of active management, such as poor security selection. Indexing seeks to achieve lower costs and better after-tax performance by keeping portfolio turnover low in comparison to actively managed investment companies. BFA uses a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage the Fund. Representative sampling is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to that of an applicable underlying index.
The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of an applicable underlying index. The Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its assets in the component securities of the Underlying Index and in investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the component securities of the Underlying Index (i.e., depositary receipts representing securities of the Underlying Index) and may invest up to 10% of its assets in certain futures, options and swap contracts, cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by BFA or its affiliates, as well as in securities not included in the Underlying Index, but which BFA believes will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Underlying Index before fees and expenses of the Fund. The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund's total assets (including the value of any collateral received). The Underlying Index is a product of SPDJI, which is independent of the Fund and BFA. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. Industry Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is concentrated. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S.
government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government securities are not considered to be issued by members of any industry.
AIA Holdings
Top 10 holdings of iShares Asia 50 ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 24.09% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 19.00% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 5.34% |
| Tencent Holdings Limited | 4.38% |
| MediaTek Inc. | 4.34% |
| Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 3.50% |
| Delta Electronics, Inc. | 2.40% |
| China Construction Bank Corporation | 2.03% |
| SK Square Co., Ltd. | 1.99% |
| AIA Group Limited | 1.95% |
AIA Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of iShares Asia 50 ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.5% |
AIA Performance
Total returns for AIA (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 46.78% |
| 1 year | 80.33% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 37.20% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 11.75% |
AIA Risk Information
Risk metrics for AIA, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 26.83%
AIA Costs and Fees
AIA costs about $50 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.50%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.50%
- Portfolio turnover: 25%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.27 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
AIA Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, iShares Asia 50 ETF had net inflows of $2.99B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $139.49M |
| 2026-05 | $358.71M |
| 2026-04 | $174.76M |
| 2026-03 | $455.23M |
| 2026-02 | $783.78M |
| 2026-01 | $262.24M |
AIA Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in iShares Asia 50 ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
AIA Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official iShares Asia 50 ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-07-22
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-07-19
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-20
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-22
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-06-15
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-06-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.