HYG UCITS alternative: IHYU
European investors who cannot buy HYG directly can use IHYU as BestFolio's exact match UCITS substitute, with ISIN IE00B4PY7Y77.
US to UCITS mapping
Original US-listed ETF ticker used in strategy rules and backtests.
iShares $ High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF
Euronext listing: IHYU.MI (Milan)
Universal identifier to search at European brokers.
IHYU tracks the same index or exposure as HYG in a UCITS wrapper.
What is IHYU?
IHYU is iShares $ High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF, a UCITS-compliant ETF that BestFolio uses when translating HYG into a European-broker-friendly allocation. UCITS funds are designed for EU and UK retail access and carry the required investor documents that US-listed ETFs usually lack.
USD high yield corporate bonds. Not IHYG, which is the EUR high yield fund. The source ticker has 1x exposure and the UCITS substitute has 1x exposure, so BestFolio can flag leverage differences during allocation translation.
Where HYG is used on BestFolio
HYG appears in 8 currently published BestFolio strategy universes or signal rules.
Build the full UCITS version of a TAA strategy
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