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Interest Rates – How to Trade your View

Interest Rates – How to Trade your View

Rate cuts in both the US and SA are now expected as soon as next week. What does that mean...

What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?

What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?

Smart investing with tailored ETF options for every financial goal.

ETP Education

ETP Education

The many benefits of investing with ETPs: Transparency, tradeability and tax efficiency.

Listing of ETFSA Balanced Foundation Prescient AMETF (ETFSAB) on the JSE

Listing of ETFSA Balanced Foundation Prescient AMETF (ETFSAB) on the JSE

ETFSA listed its first Actively Managed ETF on the Stock Exchange at a listing ceremony on Monday, 2 September 2024, which is...

The ETF Investor – Episode 60 – Actively Managing a Balanced Fund, a Foundational Investment Solution

The ETF Investor – Episode 60 – Actively Managing a Balanced Fund, a Foundational Investment Solution

Traditional index-tracking ETFs require an index to track. So what if there is no index, like in the case of...

Forming the foundation of your financial plan with this new ETF

Forming the foundation of your financial plan with this new ETF

ETFSA launches the JSE’s first listed actively managed balanced fund.

Flexibility in 100% Offshore Investing in Living Annuities

Flexibility in 100% Offshore Investing in Living Annuities

South Africa’s financial landscape is evolving, striking the balance between regulation and investment flexibility. Macro-Prudential Limits and ETF Exemption...

New Two Component (Pot) Retirement System

New Two Component (Pot) Retirement System

On 13 August 2024, ETFSA hosted a webinar introducing the new Two Component Retirement System.

Podcasts

The ETF Investor – brought to you by the ETF Specialists, ETFSA. Through this podcast series we bring you insight and understanding of ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), clarity on how to best use it in any type of investment portfolio, technical details of what happens inside the ETF, and practical advice on how to choose ETFs for your investment wants and needs.

First-time investor / Podcasts

The ETF Investor – Episode 60 – Actively Managing a Balanced Fund, a Foundational Investment Solution

Traditional index-tracking ETFs require an index to track. So what if there is no index, like in the case of balanced funds, or multi-asset portfolios? The construct of an actively-managed ETF provides an ideal solution for simple, straightforward, strategic, static asset allocation strategies in a cost-effective, rules-based, transparent investment option, suitable for all investor types.

Podcasts

The ETF Investor – Episode 59 – Actively Managing Global Property Investments

With the top of the global interest rate cycle in focus, we turn our attention to the outlook for listed property companies and REITs, and the range of exchange-traded product options available on the JSE. There is more to consider than just the interest rate cycle, and we investigate how active management can be applied […]

Podcasts

Episode 58 – Actively Managing Factor and Style Investments

Just when you thought factor-based investments have passed their sell-by date, a new South African ETF issuer has burst onto the scene with a multi-factor, style-based, risk-managed, actively-managed domestic equity ETF.

Podcasts

Actively Managing Index-Tracking Funds

For many investors the term ETF is synonymous with index-tracking, or so-called “passive” investments, and the concept of an actively-managed ETF therefore represents a contradiction in terms. But the term “active management” does not necessarily mean lots of activity or significant tracking differences to the reference index, and it offers opportunities to manage index-referenced investments more efficiently.

Podcasts

Choosing between different ETFs tracking the same index

FNB recently listed three new offshore ETFs, but the underlyings are very familiar to us – MSCI World, MSCI Emerging Markets and S&P 500. How do you choose between multiple ETF options when they offer the same – or very similar – underlying investment exposure?

etfSA

Introducing our New

Balanced Foundation Prescient AM-ETF

A market-first ETF that blends stability with long-term growth.