Amundi MSCI USA ESG Selection UCITS ETF Acc

Amundi MSCI USA ESG Selection UCITS ETF Acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Amundi, traded under the ticker SADU (ISIN IE000PEAJOT0). 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 MSCI USA ESG Selection P-Series 5% Issuer Capped index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA CORP, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES and MICROSOFT CORP. With about 264 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 35.6%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. By geography it is weighted towards ~100% United States. Its heaviest sectors are ~37.8% Information Technology and ~13% Communication Services. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.15% a year — about €15 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. 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. Its price has swung about 25.6% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2023. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from Amundi.)