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What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and why are they important?
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This podcast contains general financial advice only. That means it's not specific to you, your needs, goals or objectives. So don't act on the information until you've spoken with your financial advisor. You'll find our full disclosure, disclaimer and link to our financial services guide in the show notes. Kate, what is the most popular course we've ever had on our education site?
I'd have to say by a long way, Owen, it's our ETF, Exchange Traded Fund Beginners Course.
Yep, so this is the course where we teach people everything there is to know about ETFs, everything you should know about ETFs before you invest.
Yeah, there's a lot you can know. You could study this for thousands of hours, but at the end of the day, there's really just some simple fundamentals investors need to know before they get started with exchange-traded funds, which is what we cover in that course.
Yep, so ETFs, Kate, you said exchange-traded fund. Just really quickly, because we've covered this in our other Startup Pack episodes, what is an ETF?
Yeah, so you can even break the words up. It's on the exchange, so that's the Australian Stock Exchange we mentioned, ASX, which is the market. That's where you can buy and sell. It's traded, so you can buy and sell units of it same day. It's very liquid, as in you don't have to wait months for a real estate agent to sell it. You can just go into your account yourself without anyone else there, place a buy order or place a sell order. Yeah. And then it's also a fund. So instead of having to buy an individual share like Telstra or BHP or Apple or Disney, whatever it is, I keep coming back to Disney because I love Disney Plus. But you can just buy this fund that does it for you. So like the basket we mentioned in the last episode, instead of having to decide which of the top 200 Australian companies to buy, you just get all of the top 200 companies to buy in one single trade.
And that might be through... an exchange traded fund like A200. And we'll start introducing some names of ETF providers because someone actually does this job for you. It's not just sort of magically happening. There's different people available and different products out there that suit many different needs. So it's definitely not one size fits all. You don't just go looking for an ETF. You need to have a little bit of purpose behind it.
Yeah, we'll explain in this very short episode what ETFs are. Well, Kate just did a fantastic job with that. Why do we like them? What's the catch? How do you find ETFs to buy? Which ones you should invest in and which ones you shouldn't?
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