ETF Review: BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF (ASX: HACK)
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What is the BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF (HACK)?
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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 Campbell, welcome to this episode of the Australian Finance Podcast.
It is good to be back on this beautiful sunny day in Melbourne.
Yes, it is indeed a very sunny day. Regular listeners will know that this is a deep dive episode where we spend about 20 minutes, 20 to 30 minutes, we'll say, providing an overview of an ETF or a share. Keep in mind that if you do like these types of episodes, we know they've proven to be very popular from a listener perspective. Please write into us. Tell us which company or ETF you want us to cover. You can email us podcast at rast.com.au. But honestly, the best place to do it would probably be in the Facebook community. or on Twitter or something like that, because we do run a poll. So if you're in the Facebook group, check out the poll for the March share idea. So this is where we put out a poll of a few different companies that we might cover in the March deep dive episode, and you can vote on that.
And today's episode, we're talking about HACC, which is trading on the ASX under the ticker symbol H-A-C-K. So if you ever see ASX... H-A-C-K. Remember the ASX means the trades on the Australian Stock Exchange and the H-A-C-K or HACC is the ticker code that identifies. It's like the barcode for an investment. HACC is a really popular ETF in Australia, as you're about to find out. And we're going to talk about everything you need to know about it. Just keep in mind that we're not recommending HACC. Kate and I, we're going to talk about it. We're not going to say that this is a recommendation. It's definitely not that. Kate does not own or have an investment in a hack ETF and nor do I. And the date of this recording is Wednesday, the 9th of Feb.
So if any of the information is kind of a little bit different to what you look up in Google or on the BetaShares website, just remember that we're recording on this day. And even on this day, the numbers can change. So yeah, Kate, we're going to talk about a really exciting ETF. So where do we start?
And the hack was actually chosen by our community. It was a very popular poll. There was a few thematic ETFs involved. So yeah, hopefully everyone enjoys this quick little overview. And yeah, I guess we just can... jump into what is Hack the Beta Shares Global Cybersecurity ETF that is well and truly aptly named.
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