Amundi EURO STOXX 50 Daily (-2x) Inverse UCITS ETF Acc

What this fund is

Amundi EURO STOXX 50 Daily (-2x) Inverse UCITS ETF Acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Amundi, traded under the ticker BXX (ISIN FR0010424143). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. In plain terms it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't, spread across its target market. It passively tracks the EURO STOXX 50 Double Short Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include ASML HOLDING NV, SIEMENS AG-REG and BANCO SANTANDER SA MADRID. Its biggest country exposures are ~32.5% France, ~29.3% Germany and ~14.1% Netherlands.

Its heaviest sectors are ~27.2% Financials and ~22.2% Industrials. Investors often use a broad fund like this as a long-term 'core' holding — a single building block that covers much of a global portfolio in one trade. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.6% a year — about €60 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash. It tracks its index through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding (synthetic replication); it is domiciled in France and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in EUR.

Its price has swung about 31.5% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2018. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from Amundi.)