State Street Emerging Markets Screened Enhanced Equity Fund - UCITS ETF

What this fund is

State Street Emerging Markets Screened Enhanced Equity Fund - UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker SEMR (ISIN LU3121015211). 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 across its target market. Its largest holdings include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and SK hynix Inc..

With about 589 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 33.3%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. Geographically it leans ~27.4% Taiwan, ~23.4% South Korea and ~9.8% India. By industry it concentrates most in ~42.9% Technology and ~17.4% Financials. 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 0.6% a year — about €60 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 USD. Its price has swung about 17.4% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2025. 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.)