First Dutch Amsterdam stock market tracker

April 12, 2010 - PRLog -- Today begins the official listing on the AEX in the Trackers of the Dutch Think Capital company.

Besides the usual advantages of ETFs - cheap, transparent, liquid and relatively successful - offer trackers Think Capital two innovations: the introduction of a tracker on the AMX ® Midcap Index and the Total Market Trackers     http://www.thinkcapital.nl/fonds_beleggen_fondsbeleggen.php?panel=open

That's TMT follow the equity, bond and real estate indices. The desired risk determine the ratios of the indices. The TMT is available in the variants defensive, neutral and offensive.


Nearly 80 percent of professional investors do not perform better than the index. Because trackers blindly follow an index, so they perform in four of the five cases better than the professional.     http://www.thinkcapital.nl/fonds_beleggen_fondsbeleggen.php?panel=open

"We all know how difficult it is to make good decisions, "said Martin Rose Muller co-founder, Think Capital. "What appeals to me on Trackers is transparency, cost advantage and marketability. Sixteen years after the introduction of the Tracker in the U.S. it is high time Trackers for the Dutch public accessible. Simpler than This may not be investing. "

Think Capital charges 0,3-0,6% annual management fees. Since the trackers are listed, They are all trading to buy and sell, and their performance any time to read.


Background

Tracker is actually a a share in an investment fund. A tracker fund is structured around the proportions of an index. For example, the AEX from 25 companies, AEX Tracker has the same shares of 25 companies in the same proportion. If the ratio of the AEX change also changes the ratio of AEX Tracker.     


Big difference a traditional, actively managed fund is not a tracker fund purchases based on emotion, but based on reason. A Tracker Fund does not employ expensive fund managers are considering buying and sales. The management of an amount so about a Tracker third of the cost of traditional funds. http://www.thinkcapital.nl/trekkers.php?panel=open



The Total Market Trackers Think of an Innovation Capital, investing across Europe in 40 shares, ten bonds with different maturities and ten property funds. There are three types: defensive, neutral and offensive, depending on the weight of equities in the mix.


In the Netherlands cover Trackers (ETFs) 0.4 percent of the invested capital. In France, Germany and England is that 4 to 5 percent, as already Trackers longer available for individuals. Trackers are popular because 79 percent of professional fund managers do not perform better the index (source: BCG, BGI ETF Landscape Industry in May 2009).

Think State Capital under Dutch control and was founded by Rose Martin Muller, Christian Jelsa and Gijs Koning.