John Fletcher, head of exchange-traded products at Charles Stanley, looks at how investors can differentiate between the growing number of ETFs
You could be forgiven for thinking that there are too many ETFs on the market at the moment that are all doing the same thing. I often hear from clients and brokers alike that the ETF space has become increasingly crowded. One of the single biggest obstacles to a private client investing their hard-earned cash into an ETF is the extensive, and thus sometimes confusing, array of choice open to them. Let's look at an example. Unless you have access to a Bloomberg terminal, it can be reasonably difficult to search for an ETF. A PDF copy of BlackRock's Global Handbook would perhaps be t...
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