Note: In the table above, “Acc” stands for accumulating. GBP (London Stock Exchange) USD (London Stock Exchange and SIX Swiss Exchange) EUR (Deutsche Börse, Euronext Amsterdam, and Borsa Italiana S.p.A) MXN (Bolsa Mexicana De Valores) ILS (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange) GBP (London Stock Exchange) USD (London Stock Exchange and SIX Swiss Exchange) EUR (Deutsche Börse, Euronext Amsterdam, and Borsa Italiana S.p.A) MXN (Bolsa Mexicana De Valores) GBP (London Stock Exchange) USD (London Stock Exchange) CHF (SIX Swiss Exchange) EUR (Deutsche Börse, Euronext Paris, and Borsa Italiana S.p.A)
GBP (London Stock Exchange) USD (London Stock Exchange) CHF (SIX Swiss Exchange) EUR (NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Börse, and Borsa Italiana S.p.A) Since these ETFs are denominated in a currency outside SGD, investors need to be aware of the risk of currency fluctuations, during transactions and translations. You can’t really do much unless you want to do currency hedging… But that’s a whole other topic to be covered. Of the above three ETFs tracking the S&P 500 index, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has the lowest expense ratio of 0.03%. So as an investor, you want to find an ETF with a low expense ratio. Expense RatioĮxpense ratio (or management expense ratio) is the expense incurred to pay the managers for managing the fund.Ĭhoosing an actively managed fund will naturally cost more per year and eat into your returns.
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I will be explaining more about these expenses below and how to reduce them. However, expenses that will reduce your returns include: These ETFs seek to replicate the S&P 500’s returns, which are considerably better than the Straits Times Index. There are a few available in the market, but these are the more popular ones: What Choices Are There If I Wish To Invest In The S&P 500? Higher returns than the Straits Times Index (as seen from the chart above).There are many reasons why you should invest in the S&P 500. the Straits Times Index Source: Yahoo! Finance (Note: Purple line denotes the S&P 500 while the blue line denotes the STI) In some ways, it’s like the US counterpart to the STI. These are brands that have a multinational presence. Some of these companies include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Netflix… etc. It comprises the top US companies from leading industries and is commonly used as a proxy to the US stock market performance. What Is The S&P 500?įor the uninitiated, the S&P 500 or S&P 500 Stock Market Index is the US stock market index. The S&P 500 Index gives you greater exposure and of course, pretty attractive returns. These companies have large market capitalisations and if you go down the list, you will probably recognise many of them. You can consider investing in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ( S&P 500) ETF. try your hand in the international market, but still.I think that investing in an STI ETF is a good starting point for beginner investors, and a regular shares savings plan makes it even easier to grow our capital, especially when we do not have time to actively monitor the market. You may want to read: SPDR Straits Times Index ETF (SGX: ES3) or Nikko AM STI ETF (SGX: G3B), which should I choose? Lower cost of entry (Investing in one lot of STI ETF is more affordable than investing separately in 30 different companies).Īnd if you were to buy an index fund like an STI ETF, some benefits include: Basically, it’s a benchmark index that tracks the top 30 companies in Singapore. If this is how their ticket system works, and if this is how they treat new customers, I would not trust them with further orders and would not want to be reliant on them for any kind of service.You’ve probably heard of the Straits Times Index ( STI ), our Singapore stock market index. Nothing from except a waste of 15 hours of my time. I finally wrote to again to tell them I no longer wanted or needed their proxies and to please cancel and refund me as I believed 14+ hours (by that time) was unacceptably long time to wait without even the courtesy of an update. They took my order and delivered my proxies within 30 minutes. A few hours later, I decided to try and make an order at (who I had used before, with no issues).
Today, 12 hours later, I still did not have my proxies, and wrote to say I was hoping to use them today, could they tell me when they would deliver. After 8 hours my account continued to say 'pending' for the order, so I wrote to them asking when they would be delivering the proxies.
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