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ETF: Invest in the USA

Kristia van Heerden 19 June 2019ETF Blog, Latest

In bygone days, the only way of getting offshore exposure in an investment portfolio was a complicated process involving moving and managing money abroad. While this process is still an option, it normally requires a large chunk of money to be worth the fees. Having assets offshore also complicates estate planning, because you need a ...

ETF: Comparing World ETFs

Stealthy Wealth 30 April 2019ETF Blog, Latest

This is a guest post by our friend Stealthy Wealth. There is a lot to be said about picking a single globally diversified ETF for your long term investing. You get a huge amount of diversification across geographies, industries, and currencies, all in a single, easy to understand product. Just One Lap did a great ...

ETF: The GLODIV as a global play

Kristia van Heerden 6 March 2019ETF Blog, Latest

Buying one ETF that lets you invest in as many companies as possible- across both emerging and developed markets- spreads your risk while allowing you to capitalise on growth in different regions. If you’re new to this community, you can find out why we favour this strategy by listening to the discussion and read the ...

ETF: Understanding the SYGWD

Kristia van Heerden 22 August 2018ETF Blog, Latest

Since this blog first appeared in February 2016, the local market hasn’t made you rich. Internationally, too, the markets haven’t exactly been sweeping us off our feet. Luckily for investors in this and other dollar-denominated ETFs, there has been plenty of currency movement; for offshore ETF investors a weak rand makes for a strong portfolio. ...

Podcast: Global Dividend Aristocrats

Simon Brown 25 January 2018JSE Direct, Latest

Global Dividend Aristocrats ETF This week Simon chats to Chris Rule from CoreShares on their soon to be listed Global Dividend Aristocrats ETF. It uses dividends as a quality metric rather then searching for yield and much like the MSCI World ETFs we have locally it is concentrated in the US at 53% with Europe making ...

ETF: Tech-centric Sygnia ETF lists on JSE

Kristia van Heerden 22 November 2017ETF Blog, Latest

On 6 December 2017, the Sygnia Itrix 4th Industrial Revolution Global Equity ETF ( SYG4IR) is listing on the JSE. A first to the South African landscape, the ETF tracks the Kensho New Economies Composite Index. Kensho is an American fintech company “that uses proprietary mathematical algorithms and computational models to conduct statistical analyses and ...

Video: Investing internationally

Web Admin 15 June 2011Learn Investing

The JSE offers a number of international companies to invest in, but ultimately it is a tiny market compared to the rest of the world with only some 400 companies while the NYSE alone has over 2,300 listings! So how do we access these international shares? What are the risks and perhaps most importantly - ...