The Low-Cost ETF Growth Portfolio provides a simple cheap way to invest into funds that track a Stock-Market Index. Exchange Traded Funds benefit from spreading your money between  well-managed top-performing Index funds from various fund managers.

Many investors looking for capital growth want a simple low-cost method of investing that will give them a good return without the worry of fund managers, sectors, strategies etc.  This is where an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) will help as these funds simply track an Index such as, commodities, Indices and global markets or sectors.

Low-Cost Ready-Made Portfolio’s are all the rage and these Index Tracker funds now account for 24% of all money invested into funds, according to the Investment Association. The influx of money into passive tracker funds has been driven by Robo-Investing websites such as Netmeg, Moneybox and Wealthify. Now, the largest Platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell, Interactive Investor and Vanguard have also joined the party and pushing their trackers portfolios.

Seymour Sinclair Investments now offers an ETF Portfolio that not only aims to be one of the cheapest on the market but also one that out-performs the competition.  This new low-cost Growth ETF Portfolio invests in four main sector markets, USA, UK, Europe and Global.

The Seymour Sinclair ETF Portfolio is designed to use the best-performing and lowest cost funds.  The main benefit of using our ETF portfolio is that the money is spread between well managed top-performing funds from various fund managers. Whereas the downside of investing into ETFs offered by such companies as Vanguard, BlackRock and HSBC, is that you can only invest into the funds that they manage.

Comparison of Two-Year performance of higher-risk funds:

What Is an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)?

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a pooled investment security that can be bought and sold like an individual stock. ETFs can be structured to track anything from the price of a commodity to a large and diverse collection of securities. An ETF, or Exchange Traded Fund is a simple and easy way to get access to investment markets. It is a pre-defined basket of bonds, stocks or commodities that are wrapped into a fund and then listed onto the exchange so that everyone can use it.

ETFs can even be designed to track specific investment strategies. Various types of ETFs are available to investors for income generation, speculation, and price increases, and to hedge or partly offset risk in an investor’s portfolio. The first ETF was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, which tracks the S&P 500 Index.

ETFs offer investors access to a wide range of markets around the world usually at low cost. Most ETFs are passive investments, meaning they simply aim to track the performance of an underlying group of investments. Actively managed investments, on the other hand, try to outperform the market, and therefore charge more to cover the costs of employing a team of analysts.

To put this into context, the ongoing charge for the iShares Core FTSE 100 ETF, which tracks the FTSE 100 index, is just 0.07%. However, if you invest in an actively managed fund you can expect to pay ongoing fees and charges ranging from around 0.65% to over 1% each year of your total investment in the fund. The difference may not sound like much over the course of a year, but it adds up if you hold your investment for a number of years.

Passive investing may sound dull, but studies show that the average active fund manager underperforms against the market once costs are taken into account. So, unless you pick a manager who consistently outperforms the market, it’s worth considering the lower cost option of a tracker such as an ETF. Don’t forget though, you still have to take into account any transaction and custody fees charged by your investment service.

ETFs can also help investors build a diversified portfolio. They’re listed on the stock exchange, so you can buy and sell shares in them just like you would in any other company. This means you can build and rebalance your portfolio relatively quickly and easily. What’s more, ETFs don’t just track market indices. They also invest in specific industry sectors, such as finance or healthcare, as well as other investments like government or corporate bonds.

Remember, regardless of whether you invest in an active or passive investment, it can fall in value as well as rise. You may end up getting back less than you invest.

Fees for £10,000 ISA                                  Fund Fee %     Other Fees %       Total Annual Fees %

Seymour Sinclair ETF Portfolio                             0.046                   0.35                                  0.396

AJ Bell Adventurous                                                 0.31                     0.25                                   0.56

Hargreaves Lansdown                                              0.30                    0.45                                   0.75

Interactive Investor                                                   0.13                     0.60                                   0.73