Amundi Global Equity Quality Income UCITS ETF Dist

What this fund is

Amundi Global Equity Quality Income UCITS ETF Dist is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Amundi, traded under the ticker LYQI (ISIN LU0832436512). 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 broadly across markets worldwide. It passively tracks the SG Global Quality Income NTR index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include DSM-FIRMENICH AG AMSTERDAM, INTERTEK GROUP PLC and COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED. Geographically it leans ~29.7% United States, ~12.4% United Kingdom and ~10.6% Canada.

By industry it concentrates most in ~26.1% Utilities and ~22.3% Consumer Staples. Funds like this are commonly chosen by investors who want a regular cash income stream rather than reinvesting everything for growth. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.45% a year — about €45 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. Income such as dividends is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class), and over the last year it paid out roughly 3.0% (its trailing yield). It tracks its index through a swap agreement rather than owning every holding (synthetic replication); it is domiciled in Luxembourg and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in EUR.

Its price has swung about 9.3% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2012. 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.)