Both accessible and efficient, ETFs (exchange traded funds) are the simplest way to invest in the stock market.
Also called “trackers”, these simply replicate the evolution of stock market indices.
Popular with institutional investors and 50% of American savers, they are starting to break through in France: 250,000 individuals bought or sold them in 2022, according to the Financial Markets Authority.
What is it about?
Created in the 1990s in the United States, ETFs are funds that invest in stocks or bonds.
If they attract so much (975 billion dollars collected in 2023, for an outstanding amount of 11,630 billion at the end of 2023, according to the research firm ETFGI), this is not due to extreme management refinement.
Unlike so-called active funds, whose managers seek to identify securities with the highest potential and acquire them at the best time, ETF managers are content to buy the values making up stock indices...
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