Saturday, September 5, 2009

Any ideas?

Does anybody know of any offshore Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that you can buy through an online broker and pay for on your credit card?

As a South African our locally-listed ETF options are relatively limited. It would be nice to access other markets like Brazil and China.

At the moment locally I have the following ETF's in my portfolio:

The Deutsche Bank X-Trackers - DBX Japan (DBXJP), DBX World MSCI Index (DBXWD) and DBX MSCI US (DBXUS) as well as the New Gold ETF (GLD) and the local government bond offering from investec ZSHARES GOVI (ZGOVI).

Obviously it would be nice to expand the universe a bit and be able to find ETF's that give exposure to other regions as well.

Zecco.com
Has anyone locally had a look at this Zecco.com offering?

It looks quite interesting in terms of a low-cost investment and trading platform. Would be nice to be able to use a credit card to transfer funds into an account though.

Thoughts on which online brokers allow you to transfer funds via your credit card?

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