Invesco NASDAQ-100 Swap UCITS ETF Dist

Invesco NASDAQ-100 Swap UCITS ETF Dist is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Invesco, traded under the ticker EQQD (ISIN IE000RUF4QN8). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. 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. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the NASDAQ - 100 Notional NTR Index index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include HOLCIM LTD, NESTLE SA-REG and NOVARTIS AG-REG. It holds around 128 positions (the ten largest ≈ 47.5%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Geographically it leans ~67.6% United States, ~20.8% Switzerland and ~3.1% Netherlands. Its heaviest sectors are ~25.6% Technology and ~13% Consumer Discretionary. 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 0.2% a year — about €20 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 0.25%. Income such as dividends is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class), and over the last year it paid out roughly 0.69% (its trailing yield). It tracks its index through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding (synthetic 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 5 out of 7 and its price has swung about 27.4% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2021, and its KID suggests a holding period of 5 years. 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 Invesco.)