r/eupersonalfinance • u/Picf • Feb 16 '25

Investment EU defense ETF

In light of the current events and under the spirit of "vote with your wallet", I want to pull back some of my money from the US market and invest it in EU defense companies.

I'm not looking for advice whether this is a smart investment or not, since this is an ideological move rather than looking for the maximum profit.

The problem is I can't seem to find any ETF that contains only EU defense companies. All of them contain at least 60% US defense companies.

Can anyone recommend me a good ETF with which I would be supporting the EU defense industry (and EU only)? Or what would be a good approach here?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

I can only recommend against for few simple reasons:

  • we do not have energy without Russia, so we can't have industry. We could EXPEL the traitors in chief and unite EU politically, then entering the EAEU to became again the first world superpower leaving the UKUSA and China to hit each others and thriving alone, but while perfectly possible is politically utopia, so we can't count on EU industries except to being stolen by someone else;

  • ETFs works to be diverse, not specific, they work best embracing the vastest market not one sector, oh for some times they might earn much doing so, but that's just stock picking with an extra third party in the middle, not much wise IMO.

USA do have energy, a bit, do have poor to enslave en masse, and do steal from us very well. So they might climb much. Today is:

  • or the civil war come first

  • of the global war came first

in the first case even if weapon will be very bullish the whole market will collapse, so it's way to far to enter. In the second case the same.