UK vs US ETFs - US always seem to be better value

General
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UK Market - - We only seem to have iShares & Vanguard + a few others HSBC, Invesco etc

US Market - - Thousand of ETFs and far more fund manager + US ETFs are always a lot cheaper

Example - UK ETF vs US ETF - Both from S&P 500 from Vanguard but the UK one has more 2x the annual charge. Thinking I need to open a US Investment account

UK Vanguard S&P 500
https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investments/vanguard-s-and-p-500-ucits-etf-usd-distributing
US Vanguard S&P 500
https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VOO

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I don’t think you can open a US investment account being a UK resident? I opened an account with Interactive Brokers and they made me sign up with their UK subsidiary…

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There are cheaper SP500 ETF’s in the UK than the Vanguard UK one. Just use a different provider!

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Just ETF is a good comparison site, check out https://www.justetf.com/uk/etf-profile.html?query=IE00B3XXRP09&groupField=index&from=search&isin=IE00B3XXRP09#chart, scroll to the bottom and it shows the alternatives.

Also check out Synthetic vs Physical ETFs Because cheaper ones tend to Synthetic and it worth while know the potential risks.

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Differences in tracking error/performance are generally far greater than a couple of basis point on the TER…