How To Pick & Choose ASX ETFs
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What are ASX ETFs and why are they important?
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Welcome to the Australian Finance Podcast, a podcast for people who want to learn more about their personal finances and get the most from their money. This series is hosted by Kate Campbell from HowToMoney and Owen Raskovich from Rask Finance.
The Australian Finance Podcast is provided for educational purposes only. The information is general in nature and does not take into account your needs, goals or objectives. What that means is the information does not apply to you specifically. So consider getting the advice of a licensed and trusted professional before acting on the information. Kate, welcome to the next episode of the Australian Finance Podcast. What are we talking about today?
Well, today I thought we should talk about how exchange-traded funds, or more commonly known as ETFs, have changed our personal investing worlds and what we're so keen on about them.
Okay. Yeah. Why we like them. Yeah. Sure. So, I feel like we've done an episode on this, but we're going to go into a bit more detail what to look for. We've had a few questions come through about ETFs and how to get started.
Because we do mention them a lot.
Yeah.
We do. Yes, we do. Probably too much. Some people will think that's like, I don't know, we're singing from the hymn books of the ETF issuers or something, but we're not. So, okay, cool. So we're going to do like a quick recap and then we're going to dig into some of the stuff.
And some of the key things to look for if you're trying to pick your own ETF.
Cool. Okay. So why don't we, first of all, just kick things off. What is an ETF?
So Exchange Traded Fund, it essentially represents a basket of shares. Well, it could be anything really.
But people know them as shares, right? Yeah.
So we'll stick with shares for now. So you might have an ETF provider that buys the top 200 Australian listed shares and they package it all up neatly. Each share is weighted accordingly to the index and you can buy units of this share.
Okay. So, you buy the basket instead of going out and buying each individual one, you get all 200 in one go. Yeah.
So, someone's already done the shopping for you because it would cost you a fortune to go out and buy every single one of those 200 shares in terms of brokerage, time, effort, money. And that top 200 share and basket keeps changing as well. So... The ETF provider actually keeps buying and selling based on what's in the top 200, for example. But, of course, there's ETFs for everything and anything nowadays.
There's plenty of them. I think there's around about 200 as we record this, but there'll probably be more.
I mean, globally, there's ETFs for cybersecurity and healthcare and all sorts of things.
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