I’m a firm believer of factor-based investing, and believe a lot of more investors are also interested; however, the current offerings are somewhat limited. The UK/DE listed ETFs on Trading 212 (as far as I can see), say, the iShares ones, only offer value and momentum, missing out on quality, size, and multi-factor - which iShares also offers. Small-cap value is also only avaliable for US and Europe.
Personally, I’d love to see the US listed iShares Edge Multi-Factor ETFs (LRGF, SMLF, INTF, ISCF, EMGF) and the Avantis Investor ETFs (AVUS, AVUV, AVDE, AVDV, AVEM) get added, as they are ones of the few series that cover the whole global market allocation, use research proven methodologies, and do so at reasonable costs. Even if they may not have UCITS counterparts, but could they be added for those not based in the EU? If they have UCITS counterparts - all the better.
Lastly, I noticed the lack of the International Developed (ex. US) asset class. Granted, this is not a US based company, but having only Europe, US, and emerging markets avaliable leaves us awkwardly missing out on some developed countries not from Europe, such as Canada, Japan and South Korea. And even if we could individually gain exposure to this via country ETFs, it’d be quite a hassle.
Love the platform and would be thrilled to see these added. Thank you!
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I would also like to see LRGF, SMLF, INTF, ISCF, EMGF and AVUS, AVUV, AVDE, AVDV, AVEM included at Trading212.
These are all available on Interactive Brokers.
Have you checked they’re UCITs compliant.
Hmm good point. I don’t think they are.
Yes as pointed out by @Scrooge_McCodf , the available options in terms of UCITS factor ETFs is very limited.
Unfortunately Vanguard removed their factor ETFs relatively recently also.
It would be nice if some providers such as Avantis mentioned above or DFA launched UCITS ETFs.
For now, there are some UCITS ETFs you might want to have a look at such as JPGL from JP Morgan (Multi-factor), IWFM & IEFM from iShares (Momentum) or value ETFs such as ZPRX & ZPRV (Small Cap Value) from SPDR, 5MVL/EMVL (EM Value) and IS3S from iShares (World Value).
I have not looked into all of these ETFs, for some of them I am simply aware that they exist.
Please do your own due diligence into each of the ETFs and understand their methodology and risks. Apologies if this is a redundant comment but if you haven’t researched it already, I would start by understanding the published research on factors to have an idea of why/how they may work, as some factors may underperform for a very long time (or even for ever, who knows what will happen in the future).
Search the names of the ETFs as some are listed in several currencies on T212 and I imagine you may prefer to invest in your account’s currency to avoid foreign exchange/currency conversion fees.
I hope this is of use for you.