HSBC’s FTSE All World index fund is the best performing fund over five years, though its lead versus the iShares ETF has been narrowed. The margin looks too slim to take seriously. That said, the HSBC tracker has maintained a consistent lead over its Vanguard FTSE All-World rival. However...
Source: Trustnet and fund providers’ data. Returns are nominal annualised returns. There are many fewer S&P 500 index funds available than ETFs. Hence we’ve drafted in other flavours of US large cap tracker fund to bolster your options. You can see that the best S&P 500index fundstrail ...
Vanguard has a reputation for doing things on the cheap.For 7 pennies on the dollar, you can ownVanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF(VEA, $43.78), which gives you exposure to almost 4,000 stocks from around the world, all outside the U.S. By doing this you are not only ...
You should expect a FTSE 100 index fund, for example, to mirror the performance of the FTSE 100 index very closely. That after all is its purpose. In order to do that, as well as tracking efficiently, the fund will need to have very low charges – in general, the lower the better....
So what to put in your Isa? Picking individual shares is risky and requires constant monitoring, but you can invest in funds (where you’re paying a fee for a professional manager to pick stocks) orcheaper tracker funds, which track an index such as the FTSE 100. ...
The F&C FTSE All-Share Tracker managed [pounds sterling]346 -- the equivalent of 6.7 pc a year -- while L&G's UK Index Fund achieved [pounds sterling]342.The Family Charities Ethical Trust has lost money for children, turning a [pounds sterling]250 investment into [pounds sterling]243, ...
However when I tried to buy this fund ii told me I couldn’t. So I moved on to the next cheapest which was Vanguard FTSE 250 UCITS ETF VMID @0.1%. However this is a distribution ETF. When I actually got to the buy screen on ii I noticed another Vanguard ETF was listed – VMIG....