Comparing 4 ETFs to invest in the S&P500

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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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[andylongfire]

Sanjee appreciate your sensible analytics, unlike most other Aussie finance youtubers who only talk about click-baity topics.

[aysinduarte]

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.

[shaanisinghal]

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!

[vidz]

Great explanation and thank you for the table format comparing the various options! :)

[ianpereira]

Can you do a comparison video between S&P500 etf, VAS and VGS? Risk vs Return graph.

[shristibaniya]

Vas vgs the best one I learn from my video thax sanjee

[richardcharleston]

Great video mate. The only thing to add I think is that what you do with currency hedging should depend on where you plan to live long term. Let’s say you live in Australia and know you want to be there your whole life, it seems most sensible to buy the S&P500 for example on a platform that buys and sells it in AUD. That way the exchange rate becomes irrelevant to the buying power of your money in Australia. If you’re someone of a conservative style already investing in index funds I don’t see the sense in starting to try to predict exchange rate

[MrAssemali]

Mate, your explanation is outperforming the rest of the Australian youtubers!
No homo, but I’ll always choose your videos 🤓

[pratikrathod]

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? .

[ikilledzoey]

Thank you! First time viewer and you answered all my questions

[InvestingNerd]

Love how you put this together, great analysis 👍

[joshuachellew]

Great video and great explanation. Sanjee, the video at the 9:10 mark, I think you may have explained this the wrong way around. I think the correct explanation as to why IHVV went up in value was in-fact because the AUD currency went down in value against the USD, rather than because the AUD currency went up, as you said.

So in summary, IHVV will out-perform IVV when the AUD currency goes down against the USD, and conversely IVV will out-perform IHVV when the AUD currency goes up against the USD.

Sanjee can you please confirm this?

[baysidelad]

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

[anupnaran]

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.

[jowalten]

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?

[simcheney]

Hey just wondering what is the best ivv etf to buy the Australian one or the US one? What's the diffrence I'm confused

[sharndawg]

Hi Sanjee,
I just set up a Revolut account and it has the option to invest in VOO (along with other S&P 500 funds). What are your thoughts on this?

[sybtain]

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?

[iidtxbc]

Thank you for the video and I just wonder if there is a stock data related company called "Boss Data" in Australia?

[jiti]

How would you hedge Australian ETF base don SPX index? with SPX options in USA? but they trade at diff hours and the Australian ETF will be in AUD