Dhe ETF boom, which has also gripped German investors for several years, is blossoming. The providers of these passive index funds bring new products onto the market on a weekly basis. Among other things, many ETF providers have expanded their range even further with strategies that should prove themselves in different market phases. Investors couldn’t do much wrong for a long time. After all, the stock markets went up steeply for years, and it almost didn’t matter which individual stocks the customers had and what weighting they had in their ETFs.
But does that still apply in times of crisis? At the latest since Vladimir Putin unleashed his war of aggression on Ukraine in February, the international financial markets have also been rumbling violently. In recent years, investors have been well advised to simply invest their money in one of the big ships on the ETF market. Even if it’s boring: Anyone who simply put their money into the MSCI World stock index could look forward to brilliant returns of more than 30 percent in 2019 and 2021, for example, in 2020 there was still an increase of more than 6 percent below dash. Index funds that tracked the US market through the S&P 500 made even slightly better gains at fees that are getting closer and closer to zero. Investors have had to be lucky to achieve such returns with what tends to be more expensive, more specialized ETFs.
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