ETFs provide better value

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It is hard enough trying to get decent investment returns without suffering the extra charges of fun...

It is hard enough trying to get decent investment returns without suffering the extra charges of fund managers and brokers - so how refreshing to come across something that really can provide better value. Back in the early 1990s a seemingly minor invention came to the investment market which in less than a decade would become the most traded stock in the USA. This was neither a flashy dotcom bubble or a telecom baby that was going to conquer the globe. It was in fact a rather dull form of electronic tracker investment, which went by the tedious title of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). Th...

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