Exchange Traded Funds, an alternative way to invest.

turbobob

ses6jwg wrote: »

I am looking at the Ishares UK Commercial Property ETF for my self select ISA.

Any opinions?

Assuming you mean IUKP, it invests in a basket of property shares and Real Estate Investment Trusts so its not a bricks and mortar property fund. It should probably be considered high risk (it lost something like 80% from inception to March 2009). Since starting, it's underperformed the other iShares FTSE NAREIT funds (e.g. the Asian or European funds) by quite a margin, but has picked up in the last few months.

Wobblydeb

Hi all,

I am looking for a global technology ETF, but am struggling to find one listed on the LSE. So far I have found db x-trackers 600 technology - which unfortunately is limited to European based technology companies, and I really wanted to include the likes of Apple and Google.

Any suggestions?

tradetime

Unfortunately, it's neither global, nor is it LSE listed, but Apple is the biggest constituent of the QQQQ, if you can find a London based ETF that tracks the Nasdaq 100 then you will get the Apple and Google exposure.

The iShares Global Tech fund (IXN) is the only other one I can locate quickly, unfortunately it is not LSE listed either, trades a little thin too, but for an investment that would be less of an issue..

turbobob

The LSE listed equivalent to that is EQQQ

tradetime

turbobob wrote: »

The LSE listed equivalent to that is EQQQ

Oddly that seems to be up currently 0.4% despite the Nasdaq 100 and the QQQQ being down -0.7% and being near flat on Friday.

Perhaps currency related, US$ is strong today.

tradetime

Don't know if this sort of thing would appeal to anyone here, but I came across it today and thought I'd share it. No history on it since it has only been trading since end of March, but I thought it looked interesting, even it's not really my cup of tea.

http://www.invescopowershares.com/products/overview.aspx?ticker=PCEF#dist