Difficulty: Moderate 1) The Global ETF market has grown 6x in the past decade It now stands at US$6 trillion in assets and 7,000 ETFs. The overwhelming number of ETFs available has led to decision paralysis for investors. 2) Most of the SGX-listed stock ETFs are sub-optimal investment vehicles. There are 29 stock ETFs listed on the SGX. Most failed to meet our minimum acceptable thresholds and hence we do not view them as compelling investment vehicles. This threshold is based on several factors including: the ETFs’ market cap, total expense ratio, bid/ask spread ratio, daily trading volume and Index replication method. 3) We shortlisted 3 SGX-listed ETFs we find are decent enough instruments to track their chosen indices. The 3 ETFs that survived our screen are SPDR Straits Times Index ETF, NikkoAM-StraitsTrading Asia ex-Japan REIT ETF and Lion-Phillip S-REIT ETF. We summarize the characteristics of these...