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S&P 500 UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VUAA (ISIN IE00BFMXXD54). 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 S&P 500 index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low. 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 15.7% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2019, 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.)