State Street® SPDR® S&P® U.S. Consumer Staples Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc)

What this fund is

State Street® SPDR® S&P® U.S. Consumer Staples Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker SXLP (ISIN IE00BWBXM385). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the consumer staples part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, 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. It follows the S&P Consumer Staples Select Sector Daily Capped 35/20 Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include Walmart Inc., Costco Wholesale Corporation and Procter & Gamble Company.

It holds around 34 positions (the ten largest ≈ 80.6%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Its biggest country exposures are ~99.5% United States and ~0.5% Switzerland. Its heaviest sectors are ~100% Consumer Staples. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.15% a year — about €15 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 0.16%. 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 57.8% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2015, 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 SPDR.)