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First Trust Global Portfolios

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📍 London, United Kingdom
🇬🇧 GB

First Trust Global Portfolios is the international arm of US firm First Trust (established 1991), offering UCITS exchange traded funds to European and other non-US investors. It provides index-based, active and thematic ETFs, including target outcome buffer ETFs and equity strategies. The regulated management entity, First Trust Global Portfolios Management Limited, is based in Dublin (10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2), registered in Ireland as company 637071 and authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland. The wider Global Portfolios business operates from London. Funds are listed on venues including the London Stock Exchange. The group was formed in 2011.

Services & Coverage
IrelandUKEUequitiesfixed incomeetfs
etfucitsasset-managementindex-fundsbuffer-etfthematic

🏛 Regulatory Status

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Company Info
Founded 2011
Size Small
Key Executives
Derek Fulton (CEO)

Recent News

24F-2NT - GUGGENHEIM DEFINED PORTFOLIOS, SERIES 2487 (0002037690) (Filer)
SEC · 2026-07-07

SEC filing for structured product tokenization signals regulatory pathway for asset-backed securities on blockchain infrastructure.

First Trust Europe launches Growth Strength UCITS ETF (FTEG)
2025-12-11

Rules-based ETF tracking the European Growth Strength Index to select high quality growth stocks.

First Trust launches US Equity Buffer UCITS ETF - April (FAPR)
2025-04-23

Second fund in the scheduled S&P 500 Target Outcome 10 percent buffer UCITS suite, offering capped upside and a downside cushion.

First Trust launches US Equity Buffer UCITS ETF - January (FJAN)
2025-01-22

Listed FJAN on the London Stock Exchange, an actively managed S&P 500 target outcome ETF with a 10 percent downside buffer.