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Recommend an ETF

  • 29-09-2014 4:51pm
    #1
    donalabu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭


    Can anyone reccommend a good ETF for a passive investor with low risk. I have traded equities with mixed results for a few years. I feel I would get as good a return from an ETF. I have an account with TD direct, could i use this for buying ETFs. Can leave in fund for 5 to 10 years

    Thanks in advance

    Donalabu


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  • #2
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    There is an ETF for everything these days, from fixed income to single-country Emerging Markets, it’s not necessarily a case of “recommending one” so much as deciding your strategy first…


  • #3
    robp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭robp


    donalabu wrote: »
    Can anyone reccommend a good ETF for a passive investor with low risk. I have traded equities with mixed results for a few years. I feel I would get as good a return from an ETF. I have an account with TD direct, could i use this for buying ETFs. Can leave in fund for 5 to 10 years

    Thanks in advance

    Donalabu

    It sounds like you have more experience then me but here is my two cents. 5 years is a very short amount of time and even 10 years is on the short side. The economic cycles that passive investors are trying to surf through and exploit may take longer then that.


  • #4
    donalabu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭donalabu


    No I don t have that much experience enough experience to know that its not as easy as it looks.
    I could probably go for a longer time frame 10 to 20 years. I would be more interested in more mature markets rather than emerging markets.
    Maybe an 80 % 20 % split between mature and emerging markets.

    Donalabu


  • #5
    robp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭robp


    donalabu wrote: »
    No I don t have that much experience enough experience to know that its not as easy as it looks.
    I could probably go for a longer time frame 10 to 20 years. I would be more interested in more mature markets rather than emerging markets.
    Maybe an 80 % 20 % split between mature and emerging markets.

    Donalabu

    I have went to the Shares Core EURO STOXX 50 UCITS ETF (CSX5) to get access to Euro Stoxx 50 index and I hope to put money into the iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF (CSPX) for US blue chips. From my amateur knowledge both seem to be good EFTs with liquidity and low expenses.


  • #6
    donalabu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭donalabu


    Hi rob
    I ll have look at those. It may be as good as equities for an amateur like me. Thanks


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  • #7
    robp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭robp


    donalabu wrote: »
    Hi rob
    I ll have look at those. It may be as good as equities for an amateur like me. Thanks

    The only thing about ETFs is the way they are treated under Irish tax law. It doesn't seem to be as favourable as the US. There are some very helpful posts on Askaboutmoney on this issue.


  • #8
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    iShares sending out blurb emails punting their FI funds

    Taking advantage of the FI carnage at Pimco following Gross' exit


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