Ishares clean energy Etf - thoughts

Thrugelmir

aroominyork said:

Thrugelmir said:

aroominyork said:

Voyager2002 said:

aroominyork said:

Alexland said:

How much do you know about the underlying companies? Do you really need to take the risks associated with thematic investments? They tend to launch in bull markets, get bought by unsophisticated retail investors, can do quite well riding a speculative wave (often before you buy them) but are eventually likely to underperform a more diversified fund before getting closed in bear markets.

https://www.ft.com/content/7e16172e-ce51-4c41-a139-3a796790bbbe

Why does it only discuss ETFs? Does it not apply equally to thematic OEICs and ITs? 

If an active manager is doing her job (big if) then individual companies within the theme will have already been screened.

Do ETFs always track an index? Passively not actively managed? 

MSCI will create an index to your specification. They operate over 220,000 for their clients. 

220,000!? Do you have the comma in the right place?

Yep. Blackrock have 380 ishare ETF's alone.