Not simply home fund managers like Evolve and CI are coming into the Canadian AI ETF scene. Invesco Canada gives INAI, which tracks a namesake index for a 0.35% administration payment. The index is actively managed by the “Morningstar Fairness Analysis Subsequent Era Synthetic Intelligence Committee” which critiques and assigns publicity scores for holdings, making it much less passive than some would possibly anticipate.
The index focuses on 4 sub-themes (generative AI, information and infrastructure, software program and providers) and consists of notable international holdings like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. INAI just isn’t forex hedged however does supply a Canadian dollar-hedged model, INAI.F.
Lastly, World X ETFs (previously Horizons) truly gives not one, however two AI thematic ETFs: AIGO and RBOT.
AIGO, which made its debut on Might 14, 2024, tracks the Indxx Synthetic Intelligence & Huge Knowledge Index by wrapping a U.S. World X listed AI ETF in a fund of funds construction. It costs a 0.49% administration payment and isn’t forex hedged. AIGO’s underlying U.S. ETF at the moment holds corporations like Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Netflix, Meta and Tencent, showcasing a broader semiconductor and communications focus.
RBOT, in contrast, has been round for much longer, having listed in 2017, and has accrued about $55 million in belongings. It costs a 0.45% administration payment, which quantities to a 0.64% MER together with a 0.04% buying and selling expense ratio (TER). RBOT tracks the Indxx World Robotics & Synthetic Intelligence Thematic Index, which focuses extra on utilized robotics and automation reasonably than simply software program, together with healthcare corporations like Intuitive Surgical and international producers like Yaskawa Electrical Corp.
Investing in any of those ETFs is simple. Merely enter the ETF’s ticker in your brokerage software, resolve on the variety of shares you want to purchase and at what value (utilizing a restrict order is advisable), and be affected person as your transaction completes.
Whereas the fast growth of the AI sector and the flurry of latest AI ETFs in Canada are undeniably thrilling, I can’t assist however draw parallels with the dot-com bubble of the late Nineteen Nineties, notably the rise and fall of Cisco Techniques.
At its peak, Cisco briefly surpassed Microsoft because the world’s most dear firm, with a market cap nearing $500 billion, using the wave of the web and networking increase.
