Hi Robert Your article and comments are so helpful I wonder what you think of the idea of investing in Ethereum (or Bitcoin)
tracker funds like XBT Provider rather than buying Etheruem itself.
Not exact matches
I think the issue here is whether any amateur
fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using
trackers and bond
funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management group
like Invesco perpetual or M&G.
It means ignoring marketing rubbish
like «active
funds come into their own and trash
trackers when the market goes down because they're able to take action to sell the expensive shares» or similar nonsense.
Investing overseas via
funds could entail you buying index
trackers that follow foreign markets,
like those we use in our Slow & Steady model portfolio.
With a
fund or a
tracker you're never going to get a blow - up
like Barclays.
It also illustrates a classic problem with investing in country
funds / products (especially true with index
trackers,
like ETFs).
Further, Tasca believes that ICOs are becoming more mature, and are beginning to include new safety tools,
like a
tracker that can detect whether an investor's cryptocurrency wallet address is potentially associated with illegally funneled
funds.