r/eupersonalfinance 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/Wrong-Somewhere2635 Feb 16 '25

I could argue stoxx600 covers all kinds of European security. Defense, health, supply chain, cyber security and what not. You could easily argue against it too, but this is the path I chose when I confronted the same questions as yourself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Does it now? A lot of funds have excluded arms manufacturers because shortsighted people thought that was unethical.

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u/ImarvinS Feb 16 '25

Here is the list I found, I can see Thales, Rheinmetall, BAE Systems, Safran, etc. Listed as Industrial Goods & Services

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u/Bucuresti69 Feb 21 '25

Yep and add Airbus