Index & ETF Investing
Index investing, broad-market tools (VT/VTI/Nasdaq), and dollar-cost averaging.
Nasdaq-100 Index Funds Around the World: QQQ Equivalents by Country
Local ways to own the Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) in every market: US QQQ/QQQM, Taiwan 00662, China 513100, Hong Kong 2834, Japan 2631, Korea 133690, Canada HXQ, Australia NDQ, UK/Europe CNDX/EQQQ, and the Irish UCITS non-US investors should prefer. Plus 2×/3× leveraged versions, cash instruments, and pledge-lending options.
Non-US Investors: Use Irish UCITS ETFs for the Nasdaq-100 to Avoid US Estate Tax
Non-US persons holding US-situs assets (QQQ/SPY) through a US broker can face up to 40% US estate tax on the amount above a $60,000 exemption. The fix isn't to avoid the US — it's to change structure: buy Irish-registered UCITS ETFs (e.g. iShares CNDX), same Nasdaq-100, zero estate-tax exposure.
Why Nasdaq-100 (QQQ), Not SPY or VT?
Same money, same time: QQQ compounds to 10×, SPY to 5×, VT to 2.5×. CLEC holds a "broad-based + cap-weighted + passive" Nasdaq-100 as the core — because if the direction is wrong, no amount of effort reaches the destination.