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S&P 500 UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VUSA (ISIN IE00B3XXRP09). 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. It follows the S&P 500 index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down. 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 0.07% a year — about €7 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 6 out of 7 and its price has swung about 17.3% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2012, 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 Vanguard.)