Kanish Chugh

Now that transactional cost can build.

So, you know, ETFs can be good, but it depends on how frequently, how much of your portfolio is made up of ETFs.

How much transactional costs are you willing to bear to be able to manage that?

So how frequently do you rebalance?

So that's one I would say.

And so sometimes when we're talking to a lot of clients, I say, well, an ETF is just for a low cost portfolio.

Yes, for some ETFs, you can build a very low cost portfolio around it, but then

you wouldn't have 15 ETFs in that.

You'd have a smaller number just to make sure you don't have the transactional costs basically eating away into your capital.

The second part of that as well would be don't take, I call it, you know, there is no ETF that is a twin.

And what I mean by that is we've got a lot of ETFs now in Australia.

There's nearly over 210 available covering active, passive, asset classes, international, domestic, a whole range.

So you want to make sure when you're looking at an ETF, you actually analyze beyond the name of the ETF.

You analyze beyond the index as well, because it may, you may perceive it to be able to assume it to be something else.

So, you know, I use the example of European equities.

Now, I think there's four or five European equity ETFs in the market.

You know, we have one.

Ours is sort of the Euro stocks 50 index.

It's 50 from just the Eurozone index.

but there is an ETF that is 350 stocks and that is 60 basis points in terms of its fee and that includes UK and Europe there is an ETF that is hedged there is an ETF that is you know a few hundred stocks that is again broad Europe so if you just took