State Street® SPDR® S&P 500® ESG ETF

State Street® SPDR® S&P 500® ESG ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker EFIV (ISIN US78468R5312). 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. It passively tracks the S&P 500 Scored & Screened Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include NVIDIA CORP, MICROSOFT CORP and ALPHABET INC CL A. With about 332 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 39.5%), your money is diversified rather than concentrated in a handful of names. Its heaviest sectors are ~35.4% Technology and ~11.7% Communication Services. It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.1% a year — about €10 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in the United States and trades in USD. Its price has swung about 12.5% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2020. 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.)