State Street® World Small Cap Enhanced Active Equity UCITS ETF (Acc)

What this fund is

State Street® World Small Cap Enhanced Active Equity UCITS ETF (Acc) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker SWSC (ISIN IE000F2IX674). 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 broadly across markets worldwide. It passively tracks the MSCI World Small Cap Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include Sandisk Corporation, Popular Inc. and Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.. With about 488 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 11.5%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names.

Its biggest country exposures are ~53.6% United States, ~12.2% Japan and ~4.5% United Kingdom. Its heaviest sectors are ~20.5% Industrials and ~16.6% Financials. 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 0.45% a year — about €45 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund; counting the trading costs inside the fund, the all-in figure is around 0.51%. Income such as dividends is automatically reinvested inside the fund (an accumulating share class), so returns compound without you doing anything.

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 USD. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 4 out of 7 and its price has swung about 28.6% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2026, and its KID suggests a holding period of 5 years. 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 SPDR.)