Lowest-cost ETFs
for UK investors

The cheapest ETFs for the most popular indexes, all in one place.
Pick an index below to see the lowest fee option, plus a few alternatives.

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How I can help you

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1Choose an index

2Choose accumulating or income

Where can you buy these?

Most of the ETFs above are available on these platforms.

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Other platforms

Lots of other UK investment platforms offer these ETFs too, and some of them also offer sign-up bonuses. ETF availability does vary between platforms.

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How I put this together

How I picked these ETFs
  • ETFs only. No mutual funds, as ETFs are easier to access and more widely available on investment platforms.
  • UCITS ETFs. This means there are strong investor protections in place for UK and European investors.
  • Available to UK investors. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and traded in pounds (GBP), to help avoid platform currency conversion fees.
  • At least £100 million in the fund. Very small funds are more likely to be closed down by the provider, and bigger funds tend to be easier to buy and sell.
  • Physical replication. The fund actually owns the shares (either all of them or a representative sample), rather than using swaps to copy the index.
  • Fees shown are the fund's yearly ongoing charge, set by the fund provider. Your investment platform may charge its own fees on top (e.g. platform fees or trading fees).
Lowest fee doesn't always mean best

These are the lowest fee ETF options, along with a few alternatives. But the lowest fee doesn't always mean the best.

Other important things to look at when choosing an ETF include tracking difference (how closely it actually follows its index), fund size (which affects how easy it is to buy and sell), the share price (if your platform doesn't offer fractional investing) and whether it's available on your platform.

And small fee differences are often just that: small. On £10,000 invested, the difference between a 0.07% and a 0.12% fee is £5 a year (£10,000 × 0.05%). Switching funds can come with its own costs, like trading fees, and selling outside an ISA or pension could mean paying Capital Gains Tax.