
After some light research, SUWS is what I’d go for to trade the first index. I didn’t see a suitable fund for that second for US investors.
annual performance is way more important than the cumulative index performance - net returns, right?
Don’t buy funds based purely on past returns, but a fund because it fills some part of your overall investing strategy. I pick a set of indices as my target portfolio, and approximate it with funds that have low tracking error (returns largely match the index) and low net fees. If a fund doesn’t track it’s index well and outperforms in the recent past, there’s no guarantee it’ll continue and it could underperform going forward. Both indices are pretty new (10-15 years), so I don’t think there’s enough data to speculate about a 30-year time horizon.
I largely ignore returns when evaluating funds/indices, I care far more about fund composition. The top 10 holdings are very different between the two indices you linked. For example, one has Nvidia at 18% of the index and doesn’t have Microsoft or Amazon, while the other has Nvidia at ~7.5% and does have Microsoft and Amazon. So it makes complete sense that they would have very different returns over the recent past since those three companies make up a large chunk of each index and their benchmark.
How does trump play into all of this?
Idk? He’d certainly have an impact on performance w/ tariffs, but I don’t know which fund would have larger impacts. But you said you’re looking at a 30 year investing horizon, so I dont think Trump is relevant here since he’ll be out of office one way or another within that time horizon.
My biggest concern would be transaction fees buying the fund if you pick a EUR-denominated one, so ask your broker if you have a any questions about that.
They did the same in my puritanical US state that passed a similar law.