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- Amundi Index Solutions - Amundi MSCI Switzerland UCITS ETF-C EUR (ticker: 540J.DE) is a Luxembourg-domiciled exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Switzerland Index, providing investors with exposure to large- and mid-cap Swiss equities across sectors including healthcare, financial services, consumer defensive, industrials, and basic materials; the fund employs a synthetic replication strategy via a total return swap (TRS) with the MSCI Switzerland NR EUR as its primary holding, ensuring close alignment with the benchmark while maintaining an accumulating income treatment and a net expense ratio of 0.25%. Amundi Index Solutions, the fund issuer, operates as a société d'investissement à capital variable (SICAV) headquartered at 5, Allée Scheffer, L-2520 Luxembourg, and functions as a comprehensive platform for passive index funds managed under Amundi Asset Management, offering a broad range of ETFs covering equities, fixed income, commodities, and responsible investment products with a focus on cost efficiency, diversification, and global market access for institutional and retail investors. The ETF, with assets under management of approximately EUR 212 million to GBP 377 million across share classes and listed on exchanges including Deutsche Börse Xetra, Euronext, and others, primarily serves investors in Europe, with availability in countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Launched on March 22, 2018, the fund replicates the MSCI Switzerland Index, which targets leading Swiss stocks in a market-cap weighted blend style, delivering unhedged EUR exposure to approximately 100% non-UK stocks with no bonds or cash allocations. Amundi Index Solutions supports a wide array of similar index-tracking products, including MSCI World, MSCI Europe, and ESG-enhanced variants; it recently announced plans in December 2025 to pay annual dividends across its ETF range, marking a shift from prior accumulating-only policies for certain products. In the broader context of Amundi's operations, the parent entity unveiled its 2025-2028 strategic plan "Invest for the Future" in November 2025, emphasizing ETF expansion, Asia growth, technology integration including AI for efficiency, and client diversification into retirement and private assets; additionally, Amundi Index Solutions benefits from recent parent-level developments such as the 2024 acquisition of Alpha Associates to bolster private markets and new 2025 partnerships with Satrix in South Africa and Crelan in Belgium for index solutions distribution. These initiatives align with strong inflows into ETFs and indexing, contributing to record assets under management in the first nine months of 2025.