The ETF Investor - Episode 31 - ETCs? Exchange Traded Commodities
Commodity ETFs, in some markets referred to as ETCs, derive their price entirely from the price of the underlying commodity, but physical commodities appear to have lost its lustre in recent weeks. Is...
27 Syys 202137min
The ETF Investor - Episode 30 - Building Infrastructure with ETFs
Satrix recently listed its 22nd ETF on the JSE – a Global Infrastructure ETF. There is no doubt that the world is in desperate need of infrastructure investment, partly to replace old and outdated fac...
15 Syys 202126min
The ETF Investor - Episode 29 - ETFs wrapped in ETNs
ETFs and ETNs sound so similar, yet often the only thing they have in common, is that both are exchange-traded investment instruments. In a more recent development though, we now have ETFs that are wr...
19 Elo 202126min
The ETF Investor - Episode 28 - Including Diversity in Investments
Diversification in investment portfolios has always been a powerful risk mitigator, but Satrix has taken this concept one step further, and applied it to an investment focus on companies that rate hig...
10 Elo 202125min
The ETF Investor - Episode 27 - Global Healthcare: Bringing Health to your Wealth
In this episode we take a closer look at the Sygnia Itrix Solactive Healthcare 150 ETF, and the investment case for healthcare exposure in long-term investment portfolios. How does this compare to oth...
6 Elo 202119min
The ETF Investor - Episode 26 - Custom Indices in Listed Real Estate
Listed real estate investments have been under quite a bit of pressure over the last year or two, and the global lockdown due to Covid pandemic just added insult to injury. Even global real estate sto...
24 Touko 202133min
The ETF Investor - Episode 25 - Dividends, Distributions and Total Return ETFs
The returns we get from investments come in two parts – capital gains (or an increase in the price) and distributions, which could be either dividends or interest. It is easy to see the first part of ...
18 Touko 202125min
The ETF Investor - Episode 24 - WTF (What The Factsheet!)
Investors are often told to "do your homework", to "understand what you invest in before you do so", or even just "do your own research", but what exactly does that mean, and how should ETF investors ...
10 Touko 202123min
