Index Fund beginner

Albermarle

 I have seen that myself, the difficult thing is not reacting(selling) to news and YouTubers talking crashes, they know no more than the rest of us.

I very much doubt they know more than the rest of us, when it comes to predicting market movements.

Dh6

Think you’ve misread that one Albermarle 

Albermarle

Dh6 said:

Think you’ve misread that one Albermarle 

Yes you are right !

pbryd

Last night I opened an iweb account with a view to put some money in an index tracker. I was a bit taken aback by the amount of options available.

B0bbyEwing

I've read the first 3 books mentioned in this thread & recommend them also. At the very least they gave me enough confidence to at least have a go myself rather than paying someone to do it for me. 

ColdIron

pbryd said:

Last night I opened an iweb account with a view to put some money in an index tracker. I was a bit taken aback by the amount of options available.

IWeb have slightly less choice than some others but most of the main players are available

More likely you are being caught out by the very picky research centre which is idiosyncratic at best

https://www.iweb-sharedealing.co.uk/research-centre.html

Make sure you use 'ETF Search' for ETFs and 'Funds Centre' for funds. Even then it sometimes has a non intuitive naming convention and often it's easier to use Google with IWeb + fund/ETF name

pbryd

ColdIron said:

https://www.iweb-sharedealing.co.uk/research-centre.html

Make sure you use 'ETF Search' for ETFs and 'Funds Centre' for funds. Even then it sometimes has a non intuitive naming convention and often it's easier to use Google with IWeb + fund/ETF name

Thank you. That link is better than me logging in, clicking deal now and searching that way.

pbryd

I'm looking at global indexes. But the ones I have seen have a lot of US equities and tech which I'm not too sure about.

ColdIron

That's the nature of global equity index trackers, it goes with the territory. Most indexes are cap weighted and will be dominated by US companies. Of those some of the largest are tech

You could look at active funds or something like the Vanguard Lifestrategy which broadly exchanges US for UK

pbryd

ColdIron said:

That's the nature of global equity index trackers, it goes with the territory. Most indexes are cap weighted and will be dominated by US companies. Of those some of the largest are tech

You could look at active funds or something like the Vanguard Lifestrategy which broadly exchanges US for UK

I'll take a look at Lifestrategy, thanks. Ofcourse I realise the goal is long term investing and I could be overthinking.