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Exchange-Traded Funds

The role thematic ETFs could play in your ISA

Thursday 21 Mar 2024

With the end of tax year fast approaching, it is not too late to consider using thematic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to bolster an ISA portfolio. Thematic ETFs are a low-cost way to gain exposure to long-term megatrends. So, if you are using an ISA to generate wealth in tax-efficient way over the...

How to play gold through exchange-traded products

Thursday 08 Feb 2024

In December 2023 gold reached new all-time highs above $2,100 an ounce and it has been above $2,000 for all of 2024 to date. So far in the 21st century gold has even outperformed the total return from the S&P 500 – one of the best performing equity markets globally. According to the World Gold...

Is it worth investing in artificial intelligence ETFs?

Thursday 07 Dec 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) exchange traded funds (ETFs) have struggled to keep pace with the big AI stock of 2023 – Santa Clara-based microchip designer Nvidia (NVDA:NASDAQ) . Nvidia’s shares have risen 245% year-to-date (valuing the chipmaker at $1.22 trillion) in contrast the main AI ETFs: L...

ETFs can be a powerful tool in building your value investment strategy

Thursday 26 Oct 2023

If you started your investing journey at any point in the dozen or so years prior to the global pandemic, today’s challenges will look very strange to you. The decade or more market environment of low inflation and ultra-low borrowing costs was a fertile framework for growth investing, yet the...

Find out about the rapidly growing actively-managed ETF market

Thursday 31 Aug 2023

Traditionally, exchange-traded funds have been seen as wholly passive products, set up to give investors cheap, accessible and transparent access to the world’s biggest markets. Over time this market has developed to include products tracking niches, sectors and themes and the latest leg in their...

Fad or genuine trend? What you need to know before investing in a thematic ETF

Thursday 15 Jun 2023

Themes can be a powerful driver of investment returns as followers of the recent proliferation of AI (artificial intelligence) as a hot topic in the financial markets and beyond could attest. The fast-growing thematic ETF (exchange-traded fund) universe provides a straightforward way to invest in...

The quick and easy way to build a diversified portfolio using cheap tracker funds

Thursday 26 Jan 2023

One of the most compelling attributes of exchange-traded funds, also known as ETFs, is they allow investors to create a diversified investment portfolio from scratch rapidly, easily and inexpensively. If you bought a product tracking the MSCI World index you could arguably do this at the click of a...

Revealed: the cheapest tracker funds that could make your life easier

Thursday 26 Jan 2023

The fact only a quarter (27%) of fund managers beat the market in 2022 has led many investors to look at low-cost tracker funds. Instead of trying to outperform the market, why not simply mirror what it does and not worry about a fund manager making good or bad decisions. Exchange-traded funds or...

Foreign currency ETFs explained and how exchange rates affect performance

Thursday 26 Jan 2023

Holidaymakers will be familiar with exchanging pounds for euros and dollars when making trips abroad. A weak pound can make that trip more expensive, or a strong pound can result in extra cash to spend. Exchange rates also impact investing in overseas markets, but unlike the holidays example a weak...

How have three ETFs with inflation protection qualities performed?

Thursday 11 Aug 2022

Theodore White, the American political journalist, described inflation as ‘arriving gradually, is recognised too late and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery’. In June the UK’s annual rate rose to a new four-decade high and is predicted to peak at 13% according to the latest Bank of...

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