How to find where to buy a particular investment fund

Abram918

About investing in funds, ETFs that kind of thing. How do I find where to buy particular funds?

For example, iShares Green Bond Index Fund.
The FT website says that this fund is available for sale in the UK. (Sorry I'm too new to be able to post links!)

But I have tried a few different retail investment platforms (Hargreaves Lansdown etc) and can’t find it anywhere.

Note that this is just an example. I am looking for a general way in which to find where I can buy any particular fund.

Thanks!

Abram918

No responses to this? Is my question misguided somehow?

Given that not all platforms sell all funds, I would have expected the businesses who own the funds, for example iShares, to make it clear on their website exactly where any particular fund can be obtained by retail investors.

Alexland

Abram918 said:

No responses to this? Is my question misguided somehow?

The question is not misguided but it appears none of us are aware of a general way of seeing which platforms offer this fund (other than trying google searching or checking with each platform) if the fund manager is not making it clear. You could perhaps try asking them or try asking your current platform if they would consider adding it?

tacpot12

If you google other iShares Funds, they appear with links to HL, YouInvest, Charles-Stanley-Direct, etc. This fund does not appear anywhere which suggests that no existing platform has seen fit to add it. 

csgohan4

The other question to add is, why this particular fund not available widely? Is there a problem with it? Have you considered similar funds from other providers?

dunstonh

Many platforms will often not offer a fund where they have concerns over it.  Often to do with liquidity risk.  Or where there is a high minimum investment level which the platform is unlikely to be able to generate enough business to persuade the fund house to waive it for them.  This fund does have a high minimum investment level.  So, it could be that.
Or it could be that the fund house hasn't offered it to the platform and the no investor has asked for it to be added.  As a non-mainstream option, it wouldn't have automatic inclusion.

Thrugelmir

Minimum iniitial Investment 500,000 . Institutional investors and HNWI only I'd suggest. 

MarkFromCornwall

Thrugelmir said:

Minimum iniitial Investment 500,000 . Institutional investors and HNWI only I'd suggest.

   VHNWI !

Thrugelmir

MarkFromCornwall said:

Thrugelmir said:

Minimum iniitial Investment 500,000 . Institutional investors and HNWI only I'd suggest.

   VHNWI !

Depends what circles you move in. 

DavidT67

OP, if you want a retail ESG Bond fund try this list. https://www.justetf.com/en/find-etf.html?assetClass=class-bonds&groupField=index&bondStrategy=Social+/+Environmental