UBS EURO STOXX 50 ESG UCITS ETF EUR acc

What this fund is

UBS EURO STOXX 50 ESG UCITS ETF EUR acc is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from UBS, traded under the ticker ESESGA (ISIN LU1971906984). 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. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the EURO STOXX 50 index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include ASML HOLDING NV, SIEMENS AG-REG and BANCO SANTANDER SA. Geographically it leans ~16.8% Germany, ~11.3% Spain and ~9.5% Netherlands.

Its heaviest sectors are ~15% Financials and ~13.5% Technology. Investors often use a broad fund like this as a long-term 'core' holding — a single building block that covers much of a global portfolio in one trade. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.1% a year — about €10 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical 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 17.2% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2024. 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 UBS.)