How can an Australian invest in the S&P500? In this video I’ll compare 4 ETFs. The ETFs we'll look at are IVV, IHVV, SPY, QUS. We’ll look at fees and returns and I’ll provide some commentary on what I would do. Sign up to my weekly newsletter:
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:33 – What is the S&P 500?
3:05 – The link between ETFs and Indexes
3:44 – Comparing the 4 ETFs
6:54 – Comparing ETF performance
7:42 – IVV vs IHVV
9:28 – What would I invest in?
10:22 – IVV and or IHVV?
10:57 – What do I actually do?
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Another good video Sanjee. Is there an ethical Australian domiciled ETF that covers the ESG subset of the S&P 500? Any others that get close?
This is a a really thorough, easy to follow explanation. Good use of examples and comparisons. I for one watched your video on hedged vs unhedged. People need to know these things out is important and where ETF is domiciled as there’s tax implications as well.
Yes i agree,more info on franking please.
Hi Sanjee, Love your videos!
I was wanting to invest in a small caps ETF (eg VSO), but not sure which one to use, and would love to see a similar video on this topic
Awesome video sanjee! I was wondering if there are any drawbacks to investing in too many ETFs, would it be better to spread my money over several ETFs or focus on 1-2?
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Hi Sanjee
Enjoy your style of simple explanation.
I would appreciate your thoughts on the etf IOO , and any alternates like QUAL. Qlty
Suggestion . Can you do a show on if you win 250000 dollars today, how would you suggest going about investing this in today’s
Market with a view of investing for 5 years at least.
Great content, man. Well done.
Is there a difference between buying Vanguards ETFs through commsec or opening a Direct Account with Vanguard Australia?
Vanguard dont charge brokerage
@Joe Nachar Thanks Mate.
Hi Sanjee, thanks for the video. IVV & SPY show same returns. Are these returns before or after fees? If after, then presumably higher fees don’t matter?
Sanjee appreciate your sensible analytics, unlike most other Aussie finance youtubers who only talk about click-baity topics.
Thanks! Appreciate it!
Thank you for your video, subscribed.
Can you please make a video on, how to analyze particular stocks or ETFs? (means how to pick a stock?) what will we have to look for before buying any stock? how do you do your analysis? .
Thanks Pratik, I’ll add it to the list. Great suggestion.
Love how you put this together, great analysis 👍
Thanks so much!
How are these similar to a spaceships or raiz portfolio?? Fee wise etc.. and would these be fislry ismialr to a VDHG?
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Hi Sanjee, just so you are aware, there seems to be a scammer using your image and name. This person is responding to comments and giving out a California based WhatsApp number.
Anyway, just wanted to ask about dividend yield. SPY has a higher yield than IVV. How does this affect the overall performance of these two?
Just found your channel! Awesome work love it. Your explanation on hedged ETF’s is the easiest to understand of all YouTube videos I’ve seen trying to do it! Would love to hear your thoughts on investing in QQQ the Nasdaq 100
Hi Sanjee, I may have posted this comment in another video but I’m thinking of getting IVV but I already have VGS. Is this too much of an overlap? My portfolio I’m looking to set up contains VGS, VAS and possibly IVV. Be good to hear your thoughts on this. Cheers
Jet
Solid info Sanjee, from a fellow Melburnian.
Answered a lot of questions I was looking for quite fruitlessly until now.
Also balanced and reasoned argument toward the end regarding which EFT to go for.
Looking very forward to the VGS and VGAD video!
Thank you for the video and I just wonder if there is a stock data related company called “Boss Data” in Australia?
Can you do a comparison video between S&P500 etf, VAS and VGS? Risk vs Return graph.
Hi Sanjee, Could you do a video comparing VGS vs VAN0003AU?