Quote Originally Posted by andrewfreestuff View Post
A long time ago Kaspar said:




At the time we went down the SmartShares and SuperLife ETFs route, but recently I've become interested in Vanguard again. The ASX listed Vanguard world shares ETF states the following: "Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF seeks to track the return of the MSCI World ex-Australia (with net dividends reinvested), in Australian dollars Index, before taking into account fees, expenses and tax." Does that mean that we won't get any dividends and therefore wont need to worry about having to do tax for my son? [as a recap we are investing for our young son] We are well under the 50k FIF limit, we're looking to invest more like 5k for him.
If you don't have a problem with the limitations of ethical investment.. there are two vanguard option on investnow:
Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund
Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund - NZD Hedged

"The Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund – NZD Hedged seeks to track the return of the MSCI World ex Australia, ex Tobacco, ex Controversial Weapons, ex Nuclear Weapons (with net dividends reinvested) hedged into New Zealand dollars Index before taking into account fees, expenses and tax."

Fees are 0.2% for the unhedged, and 0.26% for the hedged.