Amundi S&P World Consumer Staples Screened UCITS ETF Dist

What this fund is

Amundi S&P World Consumer Staples Screened UCITS ETF Dist is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Amundi, traded under the ticker WEL4 (ISIN IE0005NYD352). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the consumer staples part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, 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. It follows the S&P World Consumer Staples Weighted & Screened Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include COCA-COLA CO/THE, WALMART INC and NESTLE SA-REG.

Spread across roughly 70 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 68.5%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Its biggest country exposures are ~57.6% United States, ~11.4% United Kingdom and ~11.4% Switzerland. Its heaviest sectors are ~100% Consumer Staples. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.18% a year — about €18 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund.

It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 1.84% (its trailing yield). It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in EUR. Its price has swung about 25.3% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2022. 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.)