ETF Comparison Tool

Our comparison tool breaks down everything you need to know about an ETF into three categories: Fund Overview, Fund Details and Trading Details

The ETFs contained within our comparison tool have been handpicked with our strict selection criteria in mind. We only include ETFs that:

Once you find an ETF that works for you, click into it and you’ll be shown a list of investing apps that you can use to invest. You’ll need to download at least one investing app to start buying shares in ETFs. We recommend using multiple investing apps for greater coverage under EU protection schemes, better investment selection and flexibility around features and fees.

For each app, we show:

To make detailed comparisons between the investment apps available to Irish investors, try out our Investment App Comparison Tool.

Choosing the right ETF(s) depends on many factors including, but not limited to:

Two things you can control when investing in an ETF are fees and taxes. 

Fees

Fees eat into returns. Over the long-term, seemingly small costs can leave a huge dent in your portfolio. We built a tool to illustrate this, check it out for yourself.

That’s why we rank ETFs by total expense ratio (TER) from lowest to highest – in recognition of the importance of fees when choosing an ETF for the long-term. But it’s not just ETF fees. Investing apps can charge you to invest, some more than others. We highlight the ETF order fee charged by a platform before you download and you can see their full list of charges using our comparison tool.

Taxes

Deciding whether you want to receive dividends from an ETF is important. If you don’t need them, don’t take them – you’ll pay less tax today.

Key Insight: Dividends received from distributing ETFs are taxed at 35% in Ireland. Most Irish investors invest in accumulating ETFs to avoid this. An accumulating ETF will reinvest the income without paying it out. This defers tax to a later date, allowing your returns to compound tax-free.

If you want to learn more about what to consider when picking an ETF for long-term investing, check out our ETFs for beginners guide.

Tracking difference tells you how much a fund deviated from the index over a given period for better or worse. It matters more than the total expense ratio in isolation because it captures the real net cost, if any, of holding the fund. 

Two ETFs can charge the same TER but deliver different returns after all costs and revenues have been absorbed. The tracking difference reflects that.

Tracking error measures the variability of the tracking difference throughout the year. A high tracking error suggests returns are inconsistent and volatile.

Key Insight: If Fund A has a tracking difference of 0% and Fund B has a tracking difference of -0.15%, Fund B is costing you an extra 0.15% a year to hold. On a €10,000 investment held for 20 years, that gap costs you ~€300, before accounting for the growth you would have earned if it stayed invested.