Investing in ETFs is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to start our investment journey. In recent years, ETFs have been gaining even more attention and popularity, and today, has overtaken active investing. Currently, there are more than 8,550 ETFs listed globally (as of 2021). While many ETFs tend to provide broad-based market exposure, the diversity and complexity of ETFs have also evolved over time. Apart from replicating country indexes, there are ETFs today for very specific business sectors, regions, asset classes, as well as more complicated leveraged and synthetic ETFs. What Is An ETF? ETFs are listed on stock exchanges and seek to replicate the returns of an index. The index can be broad country-based indexes such as the Straits Times Index (STI), Hang Seng Inde

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Those who are keen to invest in spirits (referring to alcoholic beverages here!) and the likes have got another option with Emperador Inc (SGX: EMI). Emperador became the first Philippine Stock Exchange-listed company to have a secondary listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) when it started trading mid-this month. Emperador is now the second regional spirits company to be listed on the SGX, after Thai Beverage (SGX: Y92), Thailand’s largest bottler and distributor of whisky and rum and an “old boy” of the Straits Times Index (STI). Many may not know, but Emperador is the biggest whisky company in the Philippines and the largest brandy company in the world. Its namesake, Emperador, is the world’s top-selling brandy by volume (I certainly didn’t know this until I read about t