"iShares MSCI Eastern Europe Capped UCITS ETF USD (Dist)" is an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF). It refers to the MSCI EM Eastern Europe 10/40 Index. This index reflects the development of Emerging Marketsstocks . 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 (dividends) are distributed to the investors. The fund company iShares claims a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.74% per year. The yearly average divergence from the index performance (Tracking Difference) since 2008 was 0.70% per year. Therefore, the ETF was slightly less expensive than the TER suggests. However, the yearly tracking differences had strong variations, so their average value is not a very reliable measure.