Why so few ESG/ Growth ETFs?

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Hi all, Iā€™m new to Freetrade. Iā€™ve been a bit surprised that whilst the platform has lots of ETFs there are very few Growth or ESG type ETFs. Is there a reason (other than lack of demand) for this? Feels like there must be so didnā€™t want to spend too much time trying to identify ā€œbestā€ options to suggest

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What ETFs were you looking at that are missing?

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Hi @lukethefool are there some London listed ETFs youā€™d like us to add? Weā€™re more than happy to add new ones if thereā€™s one thatā€™s missing.

Weā€™ve got several dozen though I canā€™t say we have all ESG related ones listed in London.

Let us know!

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Ah they need to be London based? Thatā€™s the kind of guidelines Iā€™m trying to look for. I found some mention in other threads about potential minimum sizes of funds too? Having seen that something like $CIBR exists I hadnā€™t spotted that whilst in USD itā€™s still actually on the London market.

Iā€™ve just been hunting around for ideas of what to investigate in more detail. But when I find an article like this it turns out none of the funds mentioned are available through Freetrade (they are all US ETFs): https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/esg-investing/esg-etfs/

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ETFs must be UCITS regulated funds. Consumer investors in Europe arenā€™t allowed to invest in non UCITS ETFs. Thatā€™s why you wonā€™t see US funds anywhere on consumer brokers

CIBR is on Nasdaq which is probably what you originally saw. There is a different ucits version of the etf

But thereā€™s also other cyber security ETFs already on Freetrade Ā£ISPY, Ā£CYSE etc.), just fyi, as itā€™s possibly youā€™ve been looking at US ETFs and thinking Freetrade doesnā€™t have any of these big funds

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That was more of an example of just searching for ā€œETFā€ and realising that most are in Ā£ but not all.

So London-based and UCITS regulated. Any other restrictions?

If I search for DXJA I find the distributing (DXJP) rather than accumulating fund.

Nothing like 500P though https://www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00BMDPBZ72

Or SEMG https://www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=LU1900066033

Sorry Iā€™m just trying to get my head round it since so far I feel like Iā€™m wasting lots of research time when the ETFs donā€™t exist on Freetrade. It feels like if I can understand what is possible to be added first, then that can be my first filter against funds - thereā€™s no point getting excited, spending time researching and then requesting a given fund if thereā€™s something fundamental that means it physically canā€™t be added to Freetrade. Cheers for all the pointers so far!