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FEATURE – ETFs Profile’s Stock Exchange Handbook: 2020 – Issue 1

The Home of Exchange Traded Funds

Mike Brown, Managing Director, etfSA.co.za

It is now 20 years since the first Exchange The etfSA.co.za Platform
Traded Fund (ETF) listed on the JSE. A website, www.etfsa.co.za, dedicated to
This product was the Satrix 40 ETF, which ETFs in South Africa, offers the following
tracked the FTSE/JSE Top 40 index. For services:
the first time, South African investors
! Operates as an investment platform
were able to purchase a listed security on
to channel investors to the various
the SA stockmarket, which gave them
ETF based products offered by
access to a basket of the Top 40 shares
etfSA.co.za and its sister companies.
listed on the JSE.
! Is the host for the fully online etfSA
One of the instigators of this first ETF Investor Hub, which offers
listing in South Africa, was Mike Brown, d i s c r e t i o n a r y a c c o u n t s f o r
then General Manager at Gensec Bank, investments from R300 per month, or
which was one of the companies that from R1000 for lump sums. All of the
helped launched Satrix, together with the 100 ETFs/ETNs listed on the JSE can
JSE as a partner, as the first issuing be purchased through this platform,
company for Exchange Traded Funds on which is highly competitive in terms of
the local markets. Mike went on to run costs, convenience and investor
the Satrix business from 2000 to 2009 friendly technology.
and then launched out to start ! Fact sheets, profile documents,
etfSA.co.za, a company specialising in watchlists, graphic facilities,
ETFs as investment products accessible educational data, investor seminars,
to all South African investors. podcasts and other visual aids on all
South African ETFs/ETNs are carried
on this website, making it the ideal
“one stop shop” for local ETFs.

For more information on the etfSA.co.za services, please contact:
Email: info@etfsa.co.za Tel:010-446-0371

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