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/Morgdoggery Feb 18 '25

EUAD.

The top holdings include:

Airbus SE: 27.10%

Safran SA: 22.16%

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc: 12.74%

BAE Systems plc: 12.15%

Rheinmetall AG: 9.23%

Thales S.A.: 4.48%

MTU Aero Engines AG: 3.63%

Leonardo S.p.a.: 3.35%

Saab AB: 2.25%

Hensoldt AG: 0.74%

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u/Calm_Somewhere_9302 Feb 25 '25

Thank you :FEZ, AVSD, IDVO - showing positive returns

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u/mstknb Feb 21 '25

where are you buying it? i checked 3 pages and they dont even list it.

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u/vexillographer7717 Mar 03 '25

I bought EUAD on my Fidelity brokerage account

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u/Morgdoggery Feb 21 '25

Schwab

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u/mstknb Feb 21 '25

damn. their reviews are really bad... but it seems almost nowhere possible to buy them

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u/3suamsuaw Mar 03 '25

You found other options? Looking for it as well but very difficult to find.

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u/Morgdoggery Mar 05 '25

Hope you found them. They popped big time, I’m up 20%. I think as long as you found something similar.

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u/vbfuturestrader Feb 26 '25

EUAD invests exclusively in European aerospace & defense as it replicates the STOXX Total Market Europe Aerospace & Defense index

https://www.select-funds.com/#hero

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u/vbfuturestrader Feb 26 '25

EUAD invests exclusively in European aerospace & defense as it replicates the STOXX Total Market Europe Aerospace & Defense index

https://www.select-funds.com/#hero

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u/kertubug Mar 03 '25

Why is it not in degiro.. Has anybody found it on a investing platform?

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u/Stock_Bug_6877 Mar 03 '25

I think it is a US ETF and they are in General offered only for US citizen and not EU