Amundi STOXX Europe 600 Basic Materials UCITS ETF Dist

What this fund is

Amundi STOXX Europe 600 Basic Materials UCITS ETF Dist is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Amundi, traded under the ticker LYX4 (ISIN LU2082996542). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the materials 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 passively tracks the STOXX Europe 600 Industry Basic Materials 30-15 EUR Net Return index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include AIR LIQUIDE SA, RIO TINTO PLC (GBR) and GLENCORE PLC GBP.

Its biggest country exposures are ~37.9% United Kingdom, ~23.9% France and ~14.3% Germany. By industry it concentrates most in ~94.9% Materials and ~3.2% Industrials. 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 0.3% a year — about €30 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 1.15% (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 18% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2024. 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.)