Sam Instone at AES International recommends the following low-cost ETFs specialising in small companies:
Dimensional Global Small Companies Fund
This global fund has attracted US$492 million from investors and targets a spread of global companies listed on the MSCI World Small index. It has returned 115 per cent over five years, and 33 per cent over 12 months.
Charges: total 0.53 per cent a year.
Vanguard Global Small Cap Index Fund
This $1.12 billion ETF also tracks smaller global companies and has returned 116 per cent over five years and 34 per cent over a year.
Charges: total 0.38 per cent a year.
iShares S&P SmallCap 600
A $1.26bn fund tracks smaller US companies listed on Dow Jones, returning 146 per cent over five years and 40 per cent over one.
Charges: total 0.40 per cent a year.
db x-trackers MSCI Europe Small Cap ETF
Europe-focused $650m fund has grown 132 per cent over five years and 30 per cent over one year.
Charges: total 0.30 per cent a year.
Dimensional UK Small Companies Fund
The $600m fund investing in small British companies has returned 106 per cent over five years and 20 per cent over 12 months.
Charges: total 0.60 per cent a year.
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Placing the tape on the graphite and peeling it, they managed to rip off thin flakes of carbon. In the beginning they got flakes consisting of many layers of graphene. But when they repeated the process many times, the flakes got thinner.
By separating the graphite fragments repeatedly, they managed to create flakes that were just one atom thick. Their experiment led to graphene being isolated for the very first time.
In 2010, Geim and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Daily cash awards of $1,000 dollars will sweeten the Madrasa e-learning project by tempting more pupils to an education portal to deepen their understanding of math and sciences.
School children are required to watch an educational video each day and answer a question related to it. They then enter into a raffle draw for the $1,000 prize.
“We are targeting everyone who wants to learn. This will be $1,000 for 1,000 days so there will be a winner every day for 1,000 days,” said Sara Al Nuaimi, project manager of the Madrasa e-learning platform that was launched on Tuesday by the Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, to reach Arab pupils from kindergarten to grade 12 with educational videos.
“The objective of the Madrasa is to become the number one reference for all Arab students in the world. The 5,000 videos we have online is just the beginning, we have big ambitions. Today in the Arab world there are 50 million students. We want to reach everyone who is willing to learn.”
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