Foreign tracker funds?

lorrainp

I'm looking to dip my toe into investing in China, India and Brazil or Latin America, but would prefer to avoid actively managed funds in favour of a tracker type fund, tracking the local equivalent of the FTSE.

Does anyone do tracker funds for any of these countries? If so, where do I look? I've never been able to find trackers for anywhere other than the UK markets.

With our without an ISA wrapper, I'm not fussed on that, as I can use my ISA allowance elsewhere if I don't use it for this.

nicko33

Try the Trustnet Fund Filter
http://www.trustnet.com/general/adv-search.asp
with Sector = Indexed Funds
and you should find trackers for
UK (100, 250, All, techmark)
US
European (ex-UK)
Pacific (ex-Japan)
Japan
Global

I think there are also some Investment Trust trackers
e.g.
Gartmore Fledgling Trust (FTSE Fledgling (ex. Investment Companies) Index)

purch

There are Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) that track virtually every Index you can think of, they usually have very low AMC's (less than 0.5%) and can be bought and sold cheaply through most Stock Brokers

http://www.trustnet.com/etf/funds/perf.aspx

The main providers of ETF's in stock market index's are
Barclays i-Shares www.ishares.co.uk
Deutsche Bank X-Trackers www.dbxtrackers.co.uk
Soc Gen Lyxor ETF's www.lyxoretf.co.uk