Asset Class: ETFs

In today's stock market, nearly every asset class, commodity, and global market is accessible through ETF's. So, the question becomes, how do you choose?

Our episode today is inspired by James from the UK. He wrote and asked: Why you wouldn’t just invest in an S&P 500 index fund?

In this week's episode Trace, Blake & Craig look at the BIG news stories from this week and there was NOT a shortage! BlackRock are the world's largest asset manager and they have just filed for a spot bitcoin ETF.

This is the tenth episode of our Under the Hood series - but we hope isn't the last. It's been an epic series, and today we're closing out with two of the most popular ETFs in our community - both to do with the ESG and Climate theme. Blair is also back to join us as well as we venture 'Under the Hood' and ask 'how do we invest in emerging trends and asset classes' with these ETFs?

In this episode we look at bonds! After all, they're all over the news at the moment - so Bryce and Alec lean how ETFs can help us get access to alternate assets that aren't just equities.

When you first start investing, it's so easy to get way too excited and buy a bunch of ETFs and then afterwards look under the hood and realise we might have overlap. In this episode we ask - what exactly is this, and why should we care?

Different ETFs offer exposure in varying ways, and one of the critical distinctions you should be aware of is the difference between physical and synthetic ETFs. This ep we go over the pros and cons of each type!

We’re back with our series all about ETFs, supported by Global X. Today we're looking at how do you actually know what you're buying underneath? If you're buying Uranium ETF - is it *actual* uranium, or miners, or what else?

In this episode, we dive into the world of gold investments, examining the reasons behind its recent surge to all-time highs above $2,000 an ounce.

Today we're looking at what indexes passive ETFs follow and how and who decides what goes in them? We also ask who are some of the most common index providers we should know? And why would you use an index provider rather than making the index yourself?

There's a lot going on at Equity Mates HQ - so Ren and Bryce want to take you through it, and how to navigate our feed.

Elisa Di Marco joins Bryce to chat about how difficult it can be for retail investors to assess the environmental, social and governance practices of a company - give they all report on different aspects of their operations.

This episode we dive into the fascinating realm of thematic ETFs. We're joined by Blair Hannon, Head of Investment Strategy at Global X, and he plays us in a game of 'Fake or Real ETF'.