HEWJ · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF
HEWJ returned +29.0% over the year to Oct 20, 2026, charges 0.49% a year and holds $644m in net assets on Oct 20, 2026.
HEWJ tracks an index and returned +29.0% over the past year.
Price and total return, 1 year
$64.42+0.2%1 day, priceClose, Oct 20, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (ACWX) | Gap to ACWX | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 18 – Oct 20, 2026 | −0.4% | −2.3% | +1.9 pts | +1.0% |
| 3M Jul 21 – Oct 20, 2026 | +0.5% | −0.8% | +1.3 pts | +3.0% |
| 6M Apr 21 – Oct 20, 2026 | +10.6% | +3.5% | +7.1 pts | +9.8% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 20, 2026 | +22.9% | +12.2% | +10.7 pts | +13.7% |
| 1Y Oct 20, 2025 – Oct 20, 2026 | +29.0% | +15.0% | +14.1 pts | +15.8% |
| 3Y Oct 20, 2023 – Oct 20, 2026 | +113.0% | +78.2% | +34.8 pts | +89.3% |
| 5Y Oct 21, 2021 – Oct 20, 2026 | +163.7% | +50.0% | +113.7 pts | +81.3% |
| 10Y Oct 21, 2016 – Oct 20, 2026 | +348.5% | +136.6% | +211.9 pts | +321.1% |
| Since launch Feb 5, 2014 – Oct 20, 2026 | +428.5% | +140.0% | +288.5 pts | +443.7% |
| Since launch, annualised Feb 5, 2014 – Oct 20, 2026 | +14.0% | – | – | – |
Total return at closing prices, distributions reinvested. Every column is a total return. Year to date runs from the last close of the year before. Annualised is the steady yearly rate that gives the since-launch total over the same days. Source: ETFIQ.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested. Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
HEWJ top ten by weight, 99.9% of the fund, of its 6 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 19, 2026. An index fund holds what the index holds, so this is the index. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: the issuer’s own daily file. Data as of Oct 19, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 21, 2026. Report a data error
Money in and out
Daily figures · as of Oct 20, 2026HEWJ: in the year to Oct 20, 2026, net $44.4m came in; in the month to Oct 20, 2026, $3.4m went out.
Oct 20, 2026
Oct 14, 2026 to Oct 20, 2026
Sep 21, 2026 to Oct 20, 2026
Jul 21, 2026 to Oct 20, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 20, 2026
Oct 21, 2025 to Oct 20, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
HEWJ, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 23, 2026 to Oct 20, 2026: money came in on 7 days and went out on 8 days.
Money in on 7 of the 63 trading days, out on 8.
HEWJ, net flow each trading day over the 252 sessions from Oct 20, 2025 to Oct 20, 2026: money came in on 31 days and went out on 32 days.
Money in on 31 of the 252 trading days, out on 32.
HEWJ, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 19, 2025 to Oct 20, 2026: money came in on 39 days and went out on 44 days.
Money in on 39 of the 400 trading days, out on 44.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily figures: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value.
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Figures are net: money in less money out. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 figure agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for HEWJ, back to Sep 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare HEWJ with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months65 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year53 weeks
Net flow into HEWJ each week, Oct 21, 2025 to Oct 20, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with a figure. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
HEWJ, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Nov 2023 to May 2026 are from HEWJ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 19 and went out in 17.
Bars for Nov 2023 to May 2026 are from HEWJ’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 19 and went out in 17.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily figures: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily figures; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
HEWJ key stats
About HEWJ
Questions people ask about HEWJ
- How has HEWJ performed?
- Over the year to Oct 20, 2026, HEWJ returned +29.0% with distributions reinvested, against +15.0% for its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index. Over three years the figure is +113.0%.
- What does HEWJ cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.49% a year.
- What does HEWJ hold?
- 6 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 19, 2026, with the top ten at 99.9% of the fund. 0% of its weight is in stocks the S&P 500 also holds.
- How far is HEWJ below its high?
- 3.6% below its high of Oct 6, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 20, 2026.
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